Waterloo-based artist Amanda Rhodenizer won our 2016 Cover Art contest with her painting “Attachment.” We spoke to Rhodenizer, whose winning piece appeared on the cover of Room 40.2, Our Rubble, Our Loss, about her process and inspirations. Waterloo-based artist...
Rachel Thompson interviews Zehra Naqvi, winner of Room's 2016 poetry contest. Zehra Naqvi is the winner of Room's 2016 poetry contest. She is a Karachi-born writer and editor residing on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver). She recently completed...
Rachel Thompson is the founder of Lit Mag Love, an online course that supports writers in their efforts to submit to literary magazines, the former managing editor of Room, and a current member of the editorial board. She will edit our March 2018 issue, "Family...
Sigal Samuel is an award-winning novelist, journalist, essayist, and playwright, and the judge of Room's 2017 fiction contest. Sigal took the time to answer a few questions about faith, language, and what she looks for in a short story. Sigal Samuel is an...
Room’s Geffen Semach had the chance to ask Jónína a few questions about her newly publish book of poetry, An Honest Woman, her writing practice, and what she will be looking for in a poetry contest submission. Jónína Kirton, 2017’s Poetry Contest Judge, is a...
Room’s Geffen Semach had the chance to ask Jónína a few questions about her newly publish book of poetry, An Honest Woman, her writing practice, and what she will be looking for in a poetry contest submission. Jónína Kirton, 2017’s Poetry Contest Judge, is a...
Room Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of our 2017 Creative Nonfiction Contest, as chosen by judge Carmen Aguirre. Room Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of our 2017 Creative Nonfiction Contest as chosen by judge Carmen Aguirre. Room would like to...
An interview with Room's 2016 fiction contest winner, Leslie Beckmann. Leslie Beckmann is an environmental biologist and a Master’s candidate in UBC’s Creative Writing program. Her work has been shortlisted in the Canada Writes competition, has appeared in the...
Ruth Ozeki received a Kiriyama Prize for her first novel, My Year of Meats (1998), an American Book Award for All Over Creation (2003), and the L.A. Times Book Prize for A Tale for the Time Being (2013), which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In the...
After witnessing the scarcity of diversity in the arts sector for too long, Kristin Cheung and Megan Lau founded The Future is you and me, a program aimed at creating more opportunities for young women of colour aspiring to work in the art and creative...
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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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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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