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Room is hiring a new Managing Editor!

Room is hiring a new Managing Editor!

Room magazine is seeking to hire a new Managing Editor. The ideal candidate will have previous work experience in literary, grassroots, scholarly, or academic magazine or book publishing, especially in the selection of material for publication and with knowledge of...

Featuring Palestinian Voices, part 5

Featuring Palestinian Voices, part 5

As we enter the eleventh month of the ongoing genocide against Palestine, we continue to honour and stand alongside the Palestinian people, who resist the ongoing colonization of their lands, apartheid, and genocide perpetuated by “Israel”.  We continue to witness and...

Issue 48.2 Open Call for Submissions

Issue 48.2 Open Call for Submissions

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...

Announcing Room’s New Publisher: Katie Stobbart

Announcing Room’s New Publisher: Katie Stobbart

We are thrilled to announce Room‘s new publisher, Katie Stobbart! Katie Stobbart is a queer non-binary writer and painter living on unceded lands known as New Westminster with their sweet cat companion She-ra. They have a BA in Creative Writing from the University of...

Calls for submissions & opportunities: Summer 2024

Calls for submissions & opportunities: Summer 2024

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 |...

Review of Wifehood by Caitlin McKenzie

Review of Wifehood by Caitlin McKenzie

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...

Review of Making Up the Gods by Marion Agenew

Review of Making Up the Gods by Marion Agenew

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...

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ROOM 47.4 FULL CIRCLE
Step back with Room into the past, to parents, to childhood homes, and to people once known and loved; dig into themes of grief and healing; and ultimately explore what it means to come full circle in literature.

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