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Black History Month: Our Favourite Canadian Writers

In honour of Black History Month, Room highlights some amazing female black Canadian writers. We profile Dionne Brand, Esi Edugyan and others. In honour of Black History Month, Room highlights some amazing female black Canadian writers. This list is certainly not an...

#readwomen2014: 14 books to watch out for this year

To help you with your #readwomen2014 resolution, Room has compiled a list of fourteen books by Canadian women that we think you should pick up in 2014. #readwomen2014 (started by Joanna Walsh) has been trending for a few days now and several news sites have declared...

Christa Couture: Creating Beauty from Grief (full interview)

Christa Couture: Creating Beauty from Grief (full interview)

In Room 36.1, we printed our interview with Christa Couture in the BackRoom section, but didn't have room for all of her insightful answers. Here is our full interview with her... In Room 36.1, we printed our interview with Christa Couture in the BackRoom...

Books by Canadian Women: What Room’s Editors are Reading

Our upcoming issue 36.1, Mythologies of Loss, is so full of reviews of books by Canadian women that we ran out of room to publish this list of what Room's editorial collective (affectionately called Roomies) are reading. So, to help you warm up on a winter evening,...

Can Poetry Go Noir?

Room invites you to arrest us with your unconventional hardboiled-detective manuscripts, thrill us with your feminist-fatale tales, and inspire us to break some laws with your vignettes of crimes big and small. But first, we want to know, Can poetry go noir? Room...

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...

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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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