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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...

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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?

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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

Welcome to the Science issue of Room Magazine, where we privilege questions: questions about how to construct better worlds; questions about how to destroy hyper-capitalistic, necropolitical systems; questions that beget questions and new questions.

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