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Interview with Canadian Gothic Editor Leah Golob

Interview with Canadian Gothic Editor Leah Golob

Submissions to Canadian Gothic are open until January 31, 2016. Leah Golob is a full-time reporter and freelance book critic. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver Magazine, Vancouver Observer, and trade publications. She...

Interview with Canadian Gothic Editor Leah Golob

Interview with Canadian Gothic Editor Leah Golob

Submissions to Canadian Gothic are open until January 31, 2016. Leah Golob is a full-time reporter and freelance book critic. Her writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver Magazine, Vancouver Observer, and trade publications. She...

Our Top Posts of 2015

Our Top Posts of 2015

Aboriginal women writers, feminist films, great fiction, poetry, and CNF, interviews with authors and more... Aboriginal women writers, feminist films, great fiction and CNF, and interviews with authors and editors were popular reads on our website this year. Check...

Jónína Kirton on her Viral Post: 14 Aboriginal Women Writers

Jónína Kirton on her Viral Post: 14 Aboriginal Women Writers

Our most-visited website post of 2015, by far. Our top website post this year, by far, was a list produced by our editorial board member Jónína Kirton of fourteen Aboriginal women writers she wanted to share with our web readers. The list caught on and was shared...

#LitMagLove: Pamela Mulloy from TNQ

#LitMagLove: Pamela Mulloy from TNQ

Rachel Thompson spoke with Pamela Mulloy all about TNQ's reading and submissions, and got her advice for writers who want to publish in the magazine. As part of our ongoing series, #LitMagLove, Room's Rachel Thompson spoke with The New Quarterly's Pamela Mulloy about...

Harsha Walia: On the Principles of DIY Activism

Harsha Walia: On the Principles of DIY Activism

Trained as a lawyer, Walia also co-founded No One Is Illegal (NOII), a group that supports migrants facing detention, deportation, and other human rights abuses in Canada. Originally published in Room Issue 38.3 (September 2015) If you’re involved in social...

Stephanie McKenzie, Room’s 2015 Poetry Contest Winner

Stephanie McKenzie, Room’s 2015 Poetry Contest Winner

Room's Rose Morris talks to Stephanie McKenzie, winner of our 2015 Poetry Contest. What does winning Room's poetry contest mean to you?First, I think winning any writing contest is a boost of confidence. Winning the contest is not about money per se (though the...

Room Cancels Optional Submission Fees

At our AGM in early November, the 20 volunteer editorial board and staff members who govern Room decided to scrap the submission fee introduced ten months ago. Dear Writers:At our AGM in early November, the 20 volunteer editorial board and staff members who govern...

#LitMagLove: andrea bennett from Maisonneuve

#LitMagLove: andrea bennett from Maisonneuve

andrea bennett spoke with Room's Rachel Thompson about pitching non-fiction to Maisonneuve, the evolution of her writing career, what she likes to read, and the benefits of literary gender counts. andrea bennett is a National Magazine award-winning writer whose work...

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ROOM 49.1 NO FUTURE FOR WHO?

We are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are not fucking around. These existential crises, these states of emergency. The poetry, prose, and art in this issue ask: what are we to make of, or in, them?

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In Room Magazine 48.3 Rest/Unrest, may you find rest as you engage with profound, necessary unrest.

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