Collective member Meghan Bell asked the Arthur Ellis Award-winning author a few questions for issue 36.3, Murder, Lust, and Larceny. Alice Kuipers's work includes Life on the Refrigerator Door, which was published in twenty-eight countries and won numerous...
Editor Meghan Bell answers a few questions about geeks, favourite comics, and what she's looking for in a submission. Room's upcoming 37.3 issue will be devoted entirely to exploring geek culture. Submissions are still being accepted, but only until Jan. 31, 2014...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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