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Become a reviewer for Room

Room would like to add to its roster of reviewers. Due to funding reasons, we only publish reviews written by writers in or from Canada, who are writing about forthcoming books by Canadian authors, and that have come from small to medium-sized publishers in Canada. If...

A Review of Room Issue 35.2

Check out the recent review of Room issue 35.2 on NewPages.com! Check out the recent review of Room issue 35.2 on NewPages.com!http://newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2012/08-15/#Room-V35-N2-2012

MagScene on Main – Trivia Showdown

Join members of Room and subTerrain for short readings and a literary trivia game August 16th. Win bragging rights and fabulous prizes, including current and back issues of both magazines (Grand Prize: 2-year subscription and amazing swag). Join members of Room and...

Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA)

As a reader of Room you probably have long known there is a bias against women publishing in Canada. It's part of our very raison d'être here at Room. If any of us had started to imagine gender gaps in the literary world were closing, a new accounting of reviews in...

“We write to taste life twice”

Issue 36.1 editor, Rachel Thompson, discusses the theme for the issue, Mythologies of Loss. "If loss is anything, it is lonely. But perhaps the intimacy of the page shared by writer and reader can make it less so." See the full article for an inside look into what we...

Room Celebrates 35 Years

This International Women's Day, Room had much to celebrate: our 35th volume! We gathered at Joy Kogawa House and were treated to some fantastic readings by authors we recently published. Read Jennifer Irvine's review of the evening on her blog.

Room’s Annual Writing Contest: 2014

Room’s Annual Writing Contest: 2014

Send us your best work!  Submissions to our 2014 annual contest are open until Aug. 1, 2014 at midnight. Categories: Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction PrizesPer categoryFirst prize: $500 + publication in RoomSecond prize: $250 +...

More Room Success Stories

Rebecca Rosenblum's short story "How to Keep Your Day Job," (issue 32.4) was published in the National Post Fall Fiction (http://tinyurl.com/3q6qske). It also features in her new book, The Big Dream, which launches Sept 22nd. We're so happy we could be part of the...

Lots to celebrate at Room!

April is shaping up to be a busy month at Room magazine with much to celebrate:Two stories from Room issue 33.4 All of Us Sacred have been selected to appear in the twenty-third anthology of the Journey Prize Stories. Congratulations go out to Fran Kimmel for "Laundry...

Maria Coffey: Explorer of the Infinite

Maria Coffey: Explorer of the Infinite

An interview with travel writer Maria Coffey. Maria Coffey has written eight internationally published travel books and four books for children. Her most recent, Explorers of the Infinite (2008 Tarcher/ Penguin), focuses on extreme athletes and the spiritual...

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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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ROOM 48.3 Rest/Unrest

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

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