Splinter & Shard: Stories by Lulu Keating ECW Press 192 pages $25 Splinter & Shard: Stories by Canadian author and award-winning TV and film director, Lulu Keating, is her debut collection of short stories about the human experience, in which she translates...
If you're writing and creating art during this time of rest and reflection, we've got you! Calls for submission: Artists Room Magazine | Art and photos for Room 48.3 Rest/Unrest | Ongoing Strange Horizons | Original art | Ongoing Maisonneuve | Comics | Ongoing...
Room Magazine stands in solidarity with the more than 55,000 Canada Post workers represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers who have gone on strike. To this end, we will not be using alternate services to mail out merchandise, back issues, or copies of our...
Photo credit: Rogene Reid Zalika Reid-Benta’s debut novel, River Mumma, has been lauded as one of 2023’s best fiction books on a variety of platforms, including CBC Books, Indigo Books, Kobo Books and The Walrus.It was also the October 2023 pick for the CityLine book...
Pause. Breathe. Reflect. Resist. Then submit to Room 48.3: In Rest/Unrest, we’ll unravel the forces and structures denying us rest and celebrate the act of reclaiming it. Send us your stories, poems, and hybrid pieces on moments of pause, sacred naps, and rebelling...
As the year takes us into a time of long shadows and short days, we're contemplating "Keeping Things Fresh," a new fiction piece by Room 47.4 Full Circle's commissioned writer, Shashi Bhat. "Keeping Things Fresh" by Shashi Bhat Your life, little girl, is an...
We are thrilled to announce Room‘s new Managing Editor, Chimedum Ohaegbu! Chimedum Ohaegbu (CHIM-ay-doom aw-HAY-boo, she/her) is a three-time Hugo Award winner, and formerly worked as Uncanny Magazine’s managing and poetry editor. She’s a 2021 graduate of UBC’s...
As fall brings us new winds and heralds change, we're sitting with "After 'listing (v), 2013'" by Chimwemwe Undi from our upcoming Room 47.4 Full Circle now available for pre-order! "After 'listing (v), 2013'" by Chimwemwe Undi The trouble is I was nineteen, and no...
We are thrilled to bring you the results of this year’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Angela Sterritt. The wait is over: here are this year’s winners! —- FIRST PLACE: Handful of Her Ashes for the Potter, by Judith Newcomb Stiles Judith Newcomb Stiles Stiles...
"My Sister Sleeps on the Slope of Mount Sinani" is the Third Place winner for Room’s 2024 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Angela Sterritt writes: “My Sister Sleeps on the Slope of Mount Sinani is a compelling and moving story that encapsulates...
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ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE
I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.
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ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?
In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.
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