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Whose Story is it? In Conversation with Alicia Elliott

Whose Story is it? In Conversation with Alicia Elliott

Our managing editor Chelene Knight spoke with Alicia Elliott about what it’s like being an Indigenous writer in the CanLit world, and her thoughts on authenticity when telling an experience that isn’t your own. Our managing editor Chelene Knight spoke with Alicia...

Jael Richardson and the Industry-Changing FOLD

Jael Richardson and the Industry-Changing FOLD

Jael Richardson is the award-winning author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's Life, playwright of my upside down black face, and was the writer-in-residence at the Toronto district school board in 2013. Richardson is also currently a book...

Jael Richardson and the Industry-Changing FOLD

Jael Richardson and the Industry-Changing FOLD

Jael Richardson is the award-winning author of The Stone Thrower: A Daughter's Lessons, a Father's Life, playwright of my upside down black face, and was the writer-in-residence at the Toronto district school board in 2013. Richardson is also currently a book...

In Conversation with Cicely-Belle Blain

In Conversation with Cicely-Belle Blain

Jillian Christmas, artistic director of the Verses Festival of Words, speaks with poet, artist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter – Vancouver, Cicely-Belle Blain. Jillian Christmas, artistic director of the Verses Festival of Words, speaks with poet, artist and...

Gay Book Lovers Unite! An Interview with Metonymy Press

Gay Book Lovers Unite! An Interview with Metonymy Press

Metonymy Press is a Montreal-based press that publishes literary fiction and nonfiction by emerging writers. They try to reduce barriers to publishing for authors whose perspectives are underrepresented in order to produce quality materials relevant to queer,...

In Conversation with  Betsy Warland

In Conversation with Betsy Warland

Jónína Kirton in conversation with Betsy Warland, from issue 39:4 "This Body's Map." For this interview I met with Betsy in her home. We are steps away from Stanley Park, surrounded by trees. Her home, like her writing, is uncluttered yet warm. No “walls of words” or...

#LitMagLove: Brick

#LitMagLove: Brick

Brick's Managing Editor, Liz Johnston talks #LitMagLove with Room editor, Rachel Thompson. In our continuing series, #LitMagLove, Brick's Managing Editor, Liz Johnston talks with Room editor, Rachel Thompson.Who are your first readers of unsolicited work at Brick and...

40.1 Food: Interview with Terri Brandmueller Part 2

40.1 Food: Interview with Terri Brandmueller Part 2

Terri Brandmueller is Room’s former poetry submissions co-ordinator, and a great lover of food. A skilled baker, Terri has written about food for Women's Day, Fresh Ideas Magazine, and Eating Well. Her family is equally passionate about all things culinary—her father...

Food 40.1: An Interview with Heather Giles Part 2

Food 40.1: An Interview with Heather Giles Part 2

Heather Giles is a Vancouver-based cook who has been working in kitchens since she was seventeen. She graduated from the Culinary Institute of Canada in 2009 and has worked as a cook at notable Vancouver restaurants Crow Bar, The Acorn, and Wild Rice, where she...

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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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