Room Magazine invites you to submit your writing to our Issue 48.2, edited by Lena Belova, alongside Assistant Editor Nara Monteiro, and Shadow Editors Claire Diamant and Natasha Gauthier. The writing in this issue can be on any theme, and our editors are excited to...
This summer, stay juicy with these very cool calls for submissions! Calls for submission: Artists Room Magazine | Black-and-white art about Humour | Ongoing Filling Station | Art | Ongoing The Walrus | Illustration and Photography | Ongoing Maisonneuve |...
When My Ghost Sings by Tara Sidhoo Fraser Arsenal Pulp Press 184 pages $23 Memoir, by definition, is a genre of literature based on memory. So, what happens when a writer’s memories, their primary source material, are erased? In When My Ghost Sings, writer Tara Sidhoo...
Wifehood by Caitlin McKenzie Ethel Micropress 32 pages $10 Deceptively simple, beautifully balanced, and structurally near-infinite: Barrie, Ontario poet Caitlin McKenzie’s first chapbook charts what it means to be a wife after growing up within a shattered parental...
People You Know, Places You've Been by Hana Shafi Book*hug Press 132 pages $23 “We’re all just animals searching for dopamine,” writes Hana Shafi in her journey to find beauty in the mundane and every day. The bold statement is accompanied by one of many colourful,...
Making Up the Gods by Marion Agnew Latitude 46 Publishing 376 pages $24 Agnew weaves together in a tender fashion her three narrators’ shared experiences—all people who share separate loneliness, grief, and a childhood with only one parent. Agnew’s writing is simple...
Ukrainian Portraits: Diaries from the Border by Marina Sonkina Guernica Editions 100 pages $20 Journalist Marina Sonkina’s Ukrainian Portraits is a timely collection documenting her experiences at the Ukraine-Poland border in the spring of 2022. Sonkina, herself a...
We are so excited to bring you the results of this year’s Fiction Contest, judged by Sarah Bernstein. The wait is finally over: here are this year’s winners! ---- FIRST PLACE: Sad Robot, by Camie Kim Camie Kim's work has appeared in Books in...
Why is humour sacred and what is its role within literature? Jane: Humour is incredibly important within the storytelling traditions of so many of our communities. It signals shared values and the capacity to break rules, find joy, and expose ethical failings in an...
It’s finally here! Congrats to the following six writers who were shortlisted by our judge, Sarah Bernstein, for our 2024 Fiction Contest! --- Room Magazine’s 2024 Fiction Contest Shortlist Grief, by Jaclyn Desforges We, Fleeting, by Jody Chan Apple Cake, by...
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.
No Canada | 49.3
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Science | 49.2
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No Future For Who? | 49.1
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REST/UNREST | 48.3
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Travellers | 48.2
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Wits End | 48.1
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Full Circle | 47.4
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Bodies | 47.3
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Seedpod | 47.2
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Utopia | 47.1
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