Hellgoing By Lynn Coady House of Anansi 240 Pages, $20.00 Lynn Coady’s collection of short stories takes pleasure in uncertainty, teasing a reader with twisting plots and characters entangled in miscommunications, errors, and snap judgements. These nine stories detail...
We are so excited to announce the 2023 Poetry Contest shortlist! Many thanks, again, to all those who entered, and to our wonderful judge, John Elizabeth Stintzi, for their careful consideration with the longlisted works. Congratulations to these five writers! —– Room...
Bodies of flesh, bodies of water, bodies of authority. Bodies, and those that inhabit them, are rich sources of storied history, desire, grief, joy, disgust, and everything in between. They are studies in contradiction, serving as both sanctuaries and battlegrounds,...
Winter's keeping us indoors ⎯ so if you find yourself at your writing desk, here's a handy list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more! Calls for submission: Artists PROLIT Magazine | Visual art about empire and its end | By Dec...
In this second installment of Palestinian voices to listen to, we’re reflecting on the rich tradition of literature in laying the facts bare and speaking truth to power — especially feminist literature. Notably, core feminist writers Angela Davis and, bell hooks signed the Statement in Solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza in 2014, “call[ing] upon all people of conscience to stand with Palestine.”
It's finally here! We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2023 Poetry Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for the creation of this longlist, and a big congratulations to these talented poets. --- Room Magazine’s 2023 Poetry Contest...
Room's winter issue 46.4 FEVER DREAM is open for pre-orders until Dec 15th. Gracing this issue is Ainslie Hogarth's commissioned story "Bad Egg," a story about power, obsession, and two characters alone in a mansion during an apocalyptic storm. While you wait for...
This year’s Short Forms Contest judge is the writer, activist, and award-winning author, Tsering Yangzom Lama. Her debut novel, We Measure the Earth with our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. It...
As readers, writers, and artists, the impulse to act may feel insignificant at this moment. Our team at Room certainly understands this. Amidst mass catastrophe, we turn to Toni Morrison, who said of living through crisis: “This is precisely the time when artists go...
Room 46.3 editor, Rachel Thompson, has been taking writers behind the scenes of creating this ghostly issue all month on the Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast. Listen here…
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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