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Sylvia Nickerson: On Being an Artist and a Gentrifier

Sylvia Nickerson: On Being an Artist and a Gentrifier

To learn more about her debut publication, Creation (Drawn & Quarterly, 2019), Vancouver-based artist and illustrator, karla monterrosa chats with the Hamilton-based comic artist and writer about her comic, gentrification, the intersection of identity and place, and...

Meet the Editors: Issue 43.2 (Summer 2020)

Meet the Editors: Issue 43.2 (Summer 2020)

The call for submissions for issue 43.2 is now open! Our editorial team for this issue is Jessica Johns, Kayi Wong, and Mica Lemiski. Here is a weird and wonderful Q&A with the team, which delves into the kind of writing we’re looking to include in the issue and our...

Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2019: The Longlisted Essays

Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2019: The Longlisted Essays

You've waited long enough. Here are the thirteen longlisted essays from our 2019 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! Photo credit: Carissa D'andradeYou've waited long enough. Here are the thirteen longlisted essays from our 2019 Creative Non-Fiction Contest!Room's 2019 CNF...

Pamela Mordecai: On Heart Language and Performance Poetry

Pamela Mordecai: On Heart Language and Performance Poetry

Pamela Mordecai is the author of over thirty books of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and writing for children. In what follows, Mordecai discusses her writing practice, the role religion plays in her writing, her choice to write in Jamaican Creole, and what she will be...

Shining a Light on the Labour of Sex Work

Shining a Light on the Labour of Sex Work

Red Light Labour is a groundbreaking new collection of bold, engrossing, and timely essays and personal narratives that explore sex work with the nuance, care, and rigour. Lauren Kirshner connected with the three editors of Red Light Labour, Elya M. Durisin, a...

20 Beautiful Poems You Can Read Online Right Now

20 Beautiful Poems You Can Read Online Right Now

We wanted to make sure the writers amongst our community are fully inspired this warm and muggy season for some writing, perhaps in preparation for our annual poetry contest that’s now open, so we invited poet and artist Manahil Bandukwala to share some of her...

Q & A with team 43.1 “Hair”

Q & A with team 43.1 “Hair”

The editorial team of issue 43.1 “Hair” threw each other some questions to help them dive deeper into their call: Intimate space. Roots. Growth. Identity. These are all things we think of when we consider hair. How does hair define us and affect the way we navigate...

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Cover image for Room Magazine Issue 49.2, Science. Art by Candace Cosentino of an old-fashioned computer monitor with a bounty of dandelions growing from it.

ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE

I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.

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ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?

In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.

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