Call for Submissions: Room 49.3 No Canada

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Canadian exceptionalism. “Canlit.” “Cancon.” For Room 49.3 “No Canada,” we are looking for poetry, prose, and art that offers a critical or alternate lens in this time of sentimental patriotism. For local stories, national anxieties, mixed feelings, and alienated identities. For writing and thinking in conversation with dissenting voices past and present: #IdleNoMore, Gidimt’en Checkpoint, […]

“The family group chat in times of war”...

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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?. Order Room 49.1 No Future For Who? now.

“Lilah Around Town” by K.Y. Agbayani (...

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These existential crises, these states of emergency. What are we to make of, or in, them? Today, we’re sitting with a fiction piece by K.Y. Agbayani from our current issue Room 49.1 No Future For Who?. “Lilah Around Town”   by K.Y. Agbayani   The air was dusty after the funeral but we sat on the […]

“obsidian mirrors” by Danielle Douez (first publis...

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Every Black Futures Month & Black History Month, we republish brilliant works and conversations with Black organizers, writers, and artists from Room‘s past issues, to live on our site in perpetuity. This week, we’re sitting with Danielle Douez’s “obsidian mirrors” from Room 48.2 Travellers, which takes us on a surreal journey of time and tenderness both. […]

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