Pride Month Statement and Reading List Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this statement in acknowledgment of Pride Month later than planned. *** The first Pride was a riot. Despite banks and cops getting floats at Pride parades–despite plastic rainbow merchandise disguising consumption as praxis–despite homonationalistic and pro-assimilation tactics that have […] The post Pride Month Statement and Reading List appeared first on ROOM Magazine.| ROOM Magazine
Indigenous History Month Statement and Reading List Due to a confluence of factors, Room Magazine is posting this statement in acknowledgment of Indigenous History Month later than planned. However, Room holds that Indigenous histories, presents, and futures are to be honored year-round, and so offer this statement now to assert that. *** Room Magazine is […]| ROOM Magazine
To the contributors, readers, and community of Room Magazine: We at Room Magazine extend our deepest and most sincere apologies for the significant delays in the production and delivery of several of our recent issues. We know how much trust our community places in us, and we are truly sorry for not being able to […]| ROOM Magazine
What does it mean to labour, and what is our relationship to our labour? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we’re revisiting Kirti Bhadresa’s “Tuesday Girl,” first published in Room 45.4 Baby, Baby, Baby!. Tuesday Girl by Kirti Bhadresa She calls me by the day of the week as if surprised to see me: […] The post “Tuesday Girl” by Kirti Bhadresa (from ROOM 45.4 Baby, Baby, Baby!) appeared first on ROOM Magazine.| ROOM Magazine
Take a quick glimpse into the editing process with Room 48.2 Travellers‘ Lead Editor, Lena Belova, and get ready for the issue by listening to the a specially-curated vibes playlist. Lena Belova: Choosing pieces for the issue, which were open to any theme (other than working with our contest-winning pieces), a theme developed […] The post Soundscapes: Listening to Room 48.2 Travellers appeared first on ROOM Magazine.| ROOM Magazine
What stories are we told about history, what do we hold as truth, and how do they live in the body? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we’re revisiting Stephanie R. Lim’s “We Have Carried Our Longing,” first published in Room 46.1 Around the Table: Asian Voices. We Have Carried Our Longing by […]| ROOM Magazine
Science is both a lexicon for what we know and a field of exploration for what we don’t know yet. In Room Magazine’s Science, as in science, we will savour curiosity, question orthodoxy, dig into hidden histories and understudied areas, and titrate, examine, hypothesize, collaborate, queer, and dream our way to wilder futures. How do […]| ROOM Magazine
What does it mean to survive the many ongoing crises of our times? For our 2025 Asian Heritage Month feature, we’re revisiting Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “Parliaments on the Stoop,” first published in ROOM 41.3 Queer. Parliaments on the Stoop by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha for Fatima, after Orlando There’s nothing like being two kinds […] The post “Parliaments on the Stoop” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (from ROOM 41.3 Queer) appeared first on ROOM Mag...| ROOM Magazine
We dream. We journey. We swim through our futures. Today, we transform with “Definitions for Non-Fish” by Shaheen Virk, from our upcoming Room 48.2 Travellers. Definitions for Non-Fish Shaheen Virk Alevin/Fry/Smolt/Juvenile/Adult: the various names of salmon as they mature throughout their lifecycle. Did I tell you how I stood on the rails of the […]| ROOM Magazine
In February, Room opened for Issue 48.4. We asked you to take risks for this unthemed issue and named our topics of interest: urgency, complicity, past & present, Afrosurrealism, Indigenous futurism, a free Palestine, & more. Our issue editors, Sadie Graham, natasha gauthier, and Chimedum Ohaegbu chat about the issue, Room‘s 50th Anniversary, advice on […] The post “How you begin and how you end”: A conversation with Room 48.4 editors Sadie Graham, natasha gauthier, and Chimedum Ohaeg...| ROOM Magazine
Asian Heritage Month Statement and Reading List In 2025, we celebrate 23 years since, following a motion proposed by Senator Vivienne Po in December 2001 and officially declared by the government in 2002, May became a valued time to recognize Asian Heritage Month in Canada. However, Asian Heritage Month had been celebrated unofficially since at […]| ROOM Magazine
On Saturday, April 26, 2025, an individual drove their car through a crowd at the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party, killing at least 11 people, injuring dozens, and impacting thousands. Those attending the Lapu-Lapu Day Block Party included friends and families, elders and children. All had gathered to celebrate the richness of Filipino and Filipino-Canadian culture, […]| ROOM Magazine
In times of crisis, we laugh to offer tenderness, to ward off despair— to be brave. Let the humour of 48.1 WITS END mirror the world’s state as we resist.| ROOM Magazine
What is the relationship between translation and resistance? In this interview, former member of Room’s collective, Tamara Jong, speaks to author Yilin Wang about translating poetry, celebrating meaning, and more. Yilin Wang 王艺霖 is a writer, poet, editor and Chinese-English translator. Their debut book, The Lantern and The Night Moths, which CBC called a “poetry […]| ROOM Magazine
Photo credit: Rogene Reid Zalika Reid-Benta’s debut novel, River Mumma, has been lauded as one of 2023’s best fiction books on a variety of platforms, including CBC Books, Indigo Books, Kobo Books and The Walrus.It was also the October 2023 pick for the CityLine book club. River Mumma is a contemporary fantasy novel that follows […]| ROOM Magazine
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2023 Short Forms Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three authors whose brief and beautiful works were handpicked by esteemed judge, Tsering Yangzom Lama. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are! — FIRST PLACE: Zigsa Tells Her Story,by Rimi B Chatterjee Rimi B. […]| ROOM Magazine
It’s finally here, and we hope you’re just as excited as we are. We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2023 Poetry Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three poets whose works were handpicked by esteemed judge, John Elizabeth Stintzi. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are! — FIRST […]| ROOM Magazine
We are so excited to bring you the results of this year’s Fiction Contest, judged by Sarah Bernstein. The wait is finally over: here are this year’s winners! —- FIRST PLACE: Sad Robot, by Camie Kim Camie Kim’s work has appeared in Books in Canada, Fireweed, Matrix, Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops, and elsewhere. She was the inaugural winner of […]| ROOM Magazine
“After ‘listing (v), 2013′” by Chimwemwe Undi (Sneak peek of Room 47.4 FULL CIRCLE)| ROOM Magazine
