I Hate Parties by Jes Battis Nightwood Editions 102 pages $20 Jes Battis’s I Hate Parties is a nostalgic poetry collection that chronicles adolescence in the ‘80s and ‘90s—social anxiety and Discmans included—and is peppered with musings from an adult navigating the...
All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H. Invisible Publishing 368 pages $24 “Since the promise of eternal life was no longer on the horizon, I sought, instead, to experience the full expression of my own self-destruction. Instead of aiming for Heaven, I was now hurtling...
Mary and the Rabbit Dream by Noémi Kiss-Deáki Coach House Books 232 pages $25 A good historian understands that history is, at its core, a narrative—one usually written by those in power. Noémi Kiss-Deáki is one such historian. Mary and the Rabbit Dream, Kiss-Deáki’s...
Room Magazine invites unpublished writing on any theme for our open issue 48.4, edited by Sadie Graham, Natasha Gauthier, Fran Pacchiano, and Chimedum Ohaegbu. Without prescription or limitation, we want to see your best work. Work that takes risks, with language...
To love is to risk, to be dangerous enough to sigh, cry, laugh, and jest in the most harrowing of conditions, in grief, and in the solemnity of witness. Dreams of love and liberation are filled with laughter, wit, and irreverence or they are not full. In Room’s Wits...
How can we envision the future in times of mass crisis and grief? We learn what it means to imagine better worlds ⎯ or if such a thing exists ⎯ as Whitney French speaks to Terese Mason Pierre in Room 47.1 Utopia. This post is part of our 2025 Black Futures Month &...
Black History / Black Futures Month Statement 2025 marks 30 years since, following a motion by the Honourable Jean Augustine, the first Black woman elected to Canada’s parliament, the House of Commons recognized Black History Month in Canada. Yet it’s only been 17...
This Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we're republishing brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room's past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. Today, we're sitting with this conversation between Syrus...
As we consider the role of humour in revealing life's absurdities and challenging power, we’re sitting with "The Durian Demon," a new fiction piece by Room 48.1 Wits End's commissioned writer, Lydia Kwa. The Durian Demon Lydia Kwa It could use a decent...
What is the relationship between translation and resistance? In this interview, former member of Room's collective, Tamara Jong, speaks to author Yilin Wang about translating poetry, celebrating meaning, and more. Yilin Wang 王艺霖 is a writer, poet, editor and...
ROOM 48.2 TRAVELLERS
In ROOM 48.2 TRAVELLERS we reflect, dream, manifest. Join us in these human ways of time-travelling, from infancy to the future, through relationships and into surreal realms.
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
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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Fever Dream | 46.4
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