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14 Feminist Books of 2014

14 Feminist Books of 2014

From poetry and fiction to essays and memoir, 2014 was a stellar year for chroniclers of the rich tapestry of female experience. These award-winning books touch specifically on issues of gender inequality, identity politics, social injustice, sexual awakening and...

Guest Post: Remembrance Doesn’t Have a Gender

Guest Post: Remembrance Doesn’t Have a Gender

Guest Post for Remembrance Day by Kelly S. Thompson: I often reflect back on my own service during this time of year, thinking of my friends and fellow comrades. Inevitably, my mind turns to the women I worked with, those fellow trailblazers, bravery-laden females who...

Capturing Light: Interview with Cover Artist Amy Friend

Capturing Light: Interview with Cover Artist Amy Friend

In this interview, Lindsay Glauser Kwan talked to artist Amy Friend about photography, light and the cover of past issue 36.1 Mythologies of Loss. In this interview, Lindsay Glauser Kwan talked to artist Amy Friend about photography, light and the cover of past issue...

Najwa Ali, Featured Reader on Betsy Warland’s Oscar’s Salon

Najwa Ali, Featured Reader on Betsy Warland’s Oscar’s Salon

Najwa Ali's piece “Writing, In Transit” was selected by judge Betsy Warland for top prize for our 2013 creative non-fiction contest and was published in issue 37.2 Expanding the Voice. Now Betsy Warland has selected Najwa Ali as featured reader on Oscar’s Salon...

Meet Room Collective member Meghan Bell

Meet Room Collective member Meghan Bell

Meet Meghan Bell, member of the Room collective. Meghan has been with Room since November 2011 and is our advertising coordinator and Co-Managing Editor (among other things!). Meet Meghan Bell, member of the Room collective. Meghan has been with Room since November...

An Interview with Room 38.2 Commission Eliza Robertson

An Interview with Room 38.2 Commission Eliza Robertson

Eliza Robertson — winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the featured author in our spring 2015 issue — answers a few questions about writing, travel, and submitting to literary contests. Eliza Robertson was born in Vancouver, Canada, and studied...

Meet Room Collective member Nailah King

Meet Room Collective member Nailah King

Meet Room collective member and marketing coordinator Nailah King. Meet Room collective member and marketing coordinator Nailah King.ROOM: You have worked for more traditionally organized magazines. What’s different about working with a collective? NK: It’s a little...

Interview with Amanda Sun

Interview with Amanda Sun

Meet Amanda Sun, former Room collective member and author of the young adult series Paper Gods. Meet Amanda Sun, former Room collective member and author of the young adult series Paper Gods (AmandaSunBooks.com).ROOM: What are you reading right now?AMANDA SUN: I’m...

Interview with Amanda Sun

Interview with Amanda Sun

Meet Amanda Sun, former Room collective member and author of the young adult series Paper Gods. Meet Amanda Sun, former Room collective member and author of the young adult series Paper Gods (AmandaSunBooks.com).ROOM: What are you reading right now?AMANDA SUN: I’m...

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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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