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An Interview with “Team Magic.”

An Interview with “Team Magic.”

On May 1, 2018, the call for Issue 42.1 "Magic" opened. In anticipation of this exciting themed issue, the editorial team of the issue share some thoughts about their connection to the theme, what they're looking for in submissions, and recommendations for ways to...

Cover Art Contest 2017: Honourable Mention

Cover Art Contest 2017: Honourable Mention

Congratulations to June Barrage, our 2017 Cover Art Contest Honourable Mention! June Barrage won the honourable mention in our 2017 Cover Art Contest with her series of paintings.“Uncovered”2017, Acrylic and oil on Canvas4ft x 4ft“Veiled”2017, Acrylic and oil on...

Selina Boan: Emerging Writer Award Winner 2018

Selina Boan: Emerging Writer Award Winner 2018

Selina Boan is a poet living on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam, Sḵwxwú7mesh, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She has been published extensively in literary magazines across Canada, won the Gold National Magazine Award for poetry in 2017,...

30 Books by 30 Queer Canadian Writers

30 Books by 30 Queer Canadian Writers

Whether you’re building a New Year’s resolution reading list or hoping to renew your faith in #CanLit, we at Room are here to help. This list of some of our most beloved fiction, poetry, and non-fiction books by queer Canadian writers, compiled by fourteen members of...

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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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