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In times of emerging and ongoing crisis, literature is a crucial blueprint for the future and the necessary work that lies ahead. This season, gift your loved ones feminist literature and learning for 2024 and beyond ❤️‍🔥 roommagazine.com/shop-page/

How can science help us look differently? Journey with writing and art about wonder, experimentation, and new and ancestral knowledge in ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE: roommagazine.com/product/scienc…

What if memory was a site of negotiation? Today, we’re sitting with a brilliant piece by @esber_abee71317, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science, that asks: what would you preserve, rewrite, re-remember? roommagazine.com/reading-room/a…

Usher in the spring season this May 6 (Wed) with a Room evening double online launch! Join us for a night of readings that invite us to reimagine better worlds as we raise funds for Lebanon: events.humanitix.com/spring-double-…

As nationalist sentiment rises alongside a tide of fascism, Room has opened our call for submissions for Room 49.3 No Canada. Our editors talk about this issue, their hopes for the future, and more: roommagazine.com/whats-new/feat…

Calling all writers: we want you! Submit to our 2026 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by the fantastic @razorfemme for a chance to win $1000 and publication! room.submittable.com/submit

How do we construct better worlds and destroy hyper-capitalistic, necropolitical systems? And how has science been used to justify oppression? Get curious. Get furious. Pre-order ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE now: roommagazine.com/product/scienc…

This Arab Heritage Month, we at Room Magazine sit with the contradictions of celebrating Arab histories and cultures while grieving how Arab communities are deeply impacted by an imperial violence “Canada” is complicit in. Our statement and reading list: roommagazine.com/whats-new/feat…

As feminists and as human beings, Room Magazine stands with the anticolonial resistance in Iran and we reject the appropriation of feminist language to justify or obscure violence. Read our statement and resource list in full: roommagazine.com/whats-new/stat…

Calling all poets! Our 2026 Poetry Contest deadline has been extended! Submit your best by April 10 for a chance to win $1000, judged by the fantastic Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch! roommagazine.com/contests/

Writers & artists! In a time of sentimental patriotism, we're seeking poetry, prose, & art that offers a critical or alternate lens. Submit works about how systems fail us, dissenting voices past and present, complicity, and more. roommagazine.com/whats-new/call…

In a time of increasing oppression and erasure, Room has refocused on how to keep our operations sustainable and equitable as we focus on publishing marginalized and excluded voices. Read our statement on increasing subscription and single issue prices: roommagazine.com/about/fees-and…

In times of emergency and crisis, what must we do, and how must we endure? Today, we're sitting with "The family group chat in times of war" by Abu Leila, from our current issue Room 49.1 No Future For Who? roommagazine.com/reading-room/t…

What is the shape of loss? Today, we’re sitting with a fiction piece by K.Y. Agbayani from our current issue Room 49.1 No Future For Who? roommagazine.com/reading-room/l…

Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers & artists from Room's past issues. This week, we're sitting with Danielle Douez's “obsidian mirrors” from Room 48.2 Travellers: roommagazine.com/reading-room/o…

What must we make of, or in, crises? We’re not fucking around. We’re really asking. Pre-order ROOM 49.2 NO FUTURE FOR WHO? and navigate this state of emergency with poetry, prose, and art that offer us an analytical lens and a challenge to power. roommagazine.com/product/room-4…

Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room‘s past issues. Today, we revisit Oluwatoke Tunde-Adejoye’s “Red Girl” from Room 48.3 Rest/Unrest: roommagazine.com/reading-room/f…

Calling all writers: our 2026 Poetry Contest is now open! Stand a chance to win $1000 and publication, judged by the brilliant Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch: roommagazine.com/contests/

What are we to make of, or in, these states of emergency? We are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are not fucking around. Pre-order ROOM 49.1 NO FUTURE FOR WHO? as we explore our path in these "unprecedented" times. roommagazine.com/product/room-4…

This Black History/Black Futures Month, ROOM recommits to witnessing and honouring the struggle against anti-Blackness, especially with the current iteration of political violence(s) inseparable from what has come before. Our statement and reading list: roommagazine.com/whats-new/blac…

How have writers, book workers, and cultural workers pushed back against the dominant powers in CanLit to call for a free Palestine? For Room 48.3 Rest/Unrest, Room collective member Hamdah Shabbir speaks to CanLit Responds organizer @cassidymcfadz: roommagazine.com/whats-new/as-w…