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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/

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…

We're so thrilled to announce the winners of our 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, selected by our judge Amy Lin! 🏆First place: Sadie McCarney 🏆Second place: Clea Roberts 🏆Third place: Minerva Laveaga Luna Read about our winners and their work: roommagazine.com/reading-room/c…

Drumroll, please! Announcing our 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist, judged by the incredible Amy Lin! Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their work 💫 roommagazine.com/reading-room/c…

Note: For those that have previously submitted to this job posting, your application will be kept on file and there is no need to apply again. Our team will continue to review all applications as they come in.

Are you experienced with budgets and passionate about anti-oppressive organizations? We want you! We're extending our deadline for experienced applicants to create and manage Room's budgets, accounts, and filing. Apply by Feb 1: roommagazine.com/whats-new/anno…

Drumroll, please! We're thrilled to announce the winners of our 2025 Fiction Contest, selected by our amazing judge, Janika Oza: 🏆 1st Place: Camille Pavlenko 🏆 2nd Place: Abby Denne 🏆 3rd Place: Alana Dunlop Read about our winners here: roommagazine.com/reading-room/c…

From writing that dream new futures to art that reimagine what we know, feminist literature is a blueprint for change and reckoning. ❤️‍🔥 This holiday season, gift your loved ones necessary literature for the times: roommagazine.com/shop-page/

Are you experienced with budgets and passionate about anti-oppressive organizations? We want you! Room is seeking an experienced candidate to create and manage the organization's budgets, accounts, and filing. Apply by Dec 11: roommagazine.com/whats-new/anno…

As we continue to honour and stand alongside the Palestinian people, who resist the ongoing colonization of their lands, apartheid, and genocide perpetuated by “Israel”, we sit with these writings that ask: how will we act today? roommagazine.com/whats-new/feat…

How do we navigate the tensions between a world that demands we turn away from unrest, while nourishing ourselves to continue in necessary struggles? Join us in ROOM 48.3 REST/UNREST as we explore bold writing and art that speak to our current moment: roommagazine.com/product/rest-u…