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In Conversation with Jane Eaton Hamilton

In Conversation with Jane Eaton Hamilton

Jane Eaton Hamilton is the author of nine books of creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, and the judge of Room magazine's 2018 Short Forms Contest (extended to January 29). In the following interview, Jane talks to Room's Mica Lemiski about their upcoming book of...

Our 10 Most-Read Posts of 2017

Our 10 Most-Read Posts of 2017

Our yearly round-up of the most popular posts on our website. Well, it's been an interesting twelve months since last year's top ten (and I'm kicking myself for wasting the opening "[Year] may have sucked" on 2016). I'm sure we're all feeling the ongoing burn of...

Hold Fast To Your Dreams: In Conversation with Ann Y.K. Choi

Hold Fast To Your Dreams: In Conversation with Ann Y.K. Choi

In January 2017, Arielle Spence spoke with Ann Y.K. Choi about her debut novel, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety. Kay’s—which was a finalist for the 2016 Toronto Book Award—charts the coming-of-age of Mary, a Korean Canadian teenager living in Toronto in the 1980s. Over the...

A Conversation Between Three Room Editors

A Conversation Between Three Room Editors

While the 41.2 editorial team was “taking a break” from sharing their aspirations for the upcoming issue with one another, they chatted about their favourite books and experiences working in the lit mags sphere. Submit your original essays, short stories, poems, and...

In Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

In Conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

After falling in love with This Accident of Being Lost this past summer, and then quickly devouring almost everything else she’s published, Jessica Johns jumped at the chance to chat with the award-winning writer prior to her trip to Vancouver for this year’s Writers...

In Conversation with Katherena Vermette

In Conversation with Katherena Vermette

Katherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her collection of poetry, North End Love Songs, won the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and her debut novel The Break has won numerous awards and was a Canada Reads 2017 finalist. Most recently,...

An Interview with Scaachi Koul

An Interview with Scaachi Koul

Scaachi Koul has risen to prominence over the last few years as perhaps the most recognizable young voice in Canadian media. Currently a culture writer at Buzzfeed, Koul has gained a huge following on Twitter for her unique blend of self-deprecating humour and...

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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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