Photo credit: Josh Gooden Terese Mason Pierre (she/her) uses speculative fiction to imagine new worlds, constantly questioning the notion of reality and fantasy. Her debut poetry collection, Myth from House of Anansi Press (2025), is a lyrical ode to the complexities...
How can we be artists in community? Chimedum Ohaegbu interviews Brianna Bernard, who works as a technician for Neworld Theatre, a performing arts centre centring voices confronting systemic injustice, and Unbound Reading Series, a local collective and partner of Room...
Hope Lauterbach is a writer, poet, and founder of the Unbound Reading Series. Today, our Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu interviews her on Unbound’s most memorable moments, six years since its inception, the notion of rest in cultural work, and dreams for the...
Kai Cheng Thom is above all a storyteller whose distinctive, mythopoetic voice channels something deep, ancient, and wise, all while staying grounded in our present moment and the specificities of her life. We turn to Thom’s writing when everything, including our...
Photo of Leila Chatti by Marcus Jackson. Photo of Rebecca Mangra by Brittany Carmichael. Named one of Electric Literature's Best Poetry Collections of 2025, Leila Chatti's poetry collection Wildness Before Something Sublime deftly navigates the imbrications of...
Photo credit: Hamza Abouelouafaa Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is one of the rare writers who fluently creates across genres and identities. knot body (Metatron Press, 2020), their debut collection, artfully weaves poetry, essay, and letters throughout to confront how...
"Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now," Palestinian poet rasha abdulhadi tweeted, in October 2023. Over the last few years, cultural workers have taken up various tactics, engaged in grassroots organizing, and created...
Photo of Adora Nwofor by Shannon Johnston. Photo of Taylor McNallie by Taylor McNallie. In a time of increased surveillance and suppression of activists, Room Magazine wanted to chat with some of those on the ground who have long been fighting for racial justice and...
Photo credit: Blair Marie Photography Amy Lin’s work doesn’t just evoke an array of emotions—it demands it. In Here After, her debut memoir, she tackles the overwhelm that comes with deep love and unexpected loss. Lin recounts the events following the sudden death of...
In February, Room opened for Issue 48.4. We asked you to take risks for this unthemed issue and named our topics of interest: urgency, complicity, past & present, Afrosurrealism, Indigenous futurism, a free Palestine, & more. Our issue editors, Sadie Graham,...
ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA
In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
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