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Review of Thick Skin by Hilary Peach

Review of Thick Skin by Hilary Peach

Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood By Hilary Peach Anvil Press 314 pages, $22.00 Tender-hearted, unflinching, and clever, Thick Skin: Field Notes from a Sister in the Brotherhood explores poet Hillary Peach’s twenty-year career as a transient...

Indigenous Women, Two Spirit, & Indigiqueer Writers to Read

Indigenous Women, Two Spirit, & Indigiqueer Writers to Read

June 21st is Indigenous Peoples day, though, of course, we need to be uplifting and supporting Indigenous peoples all year round. Here's a reading list of some of our favourite Indigenous women, Two Spirit, and Indigiqueer writers. Buy their work (from your favourite...

This Time It’s Personal: An Excerpt from 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Judge Tajja Isen

This Time It’s Personal: An Excerpt from 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Judge Tajja Isen

Our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest is judged by Tajja Isen! A writer, editor, and voice actor, Tajja Isen’s first book, Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service, was published in 2022 and was named a Best Book of the Year by Electric Literature, The Globe and Mail, CBC Books, and Daily Hive. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or a good read, enjoy this short excerpt from Isen’s Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service!

Keep Room Magazine Going: A Fundraiser

Keep Room Magazine Going: A Fundraiser

We'll be in danger this October if we can't meet our fundraising goal. Room is one of the most integrally diverse spaces in Canadian literary publishing today, and we need your help to keep it that way. Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary magazine, running since...

46.2 Letter from the Editor: Ley Line

46.2 Letter from the Editor: Ley Line

Creating this issue has been a lesson in hope. Hope because as the editor of a contest issue, I knew much of the content, as well as the cover, would be chosen for me and my team. And while I hold great trust in the eyes of others, judges do not read and choose pieces...

Our Upcoming Issue

ROOM 46.3 GHOSTS
Editor: Rachel Thompson
Assistant Editor: Ellen Chang-Richardson
Shadows: Melissa Barrientos, Lena Belova
Cover Art: Ebb from the Vestiges Series by Amy Friend

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Room 45.2 Cover

ROOM 46.2: Ley Line
Editor: Geffen Semach
Assistant Editor: Annick MacAskill
Shadows: Adesina Brown, Kendra Heinz, Nara Monteiro
Cover Art by semillites hernández velasco

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