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...
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'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 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...
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 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...
From 37.3 Geek Girls, an interview with comic artist and writer Emily Carroll. Carroll has been a prominent voice in the web comic horror genre since her work “His Face All Red” went viral during the Halloween of 2010. Emily Carroll has been a prominent voice in the...
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...
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...
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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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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