Spotlight: Room

a donor to the AngelHousePress 2023 Caring Imagination Crowd Funding Campaign

I am grateful that ROOM has donated to the crowd funding campaign. The Room perk has already been chosen, but if you support the campaign you can choose from a wide variety of other publications.

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty-five years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by people of all marginalized genders, including cis and trans women, trans men, nonbinary and two spirit people. We believe in publishing emerging writers alongside established authors, and because of this, approximately 90% of the work we publish comes from unsolicited submissions or contest entries.

Works that originally appeared in Room have been anthologized in The Journey Prize Anthology, Best Canadian Poetry, Best Canadian Stories, and Best Canadian Essays, and have been nominated for National Magazine Awards.

Room’s package includes a copy of the 40-year anniversary anthology, Making Room: Forty Years of Room Magazine, a 1-year subscription to the magazine and a code for 25% off merchandise.

“Making Room: 40 Years of Room Magazine celebrates the history and evolution of Canadian literature and feminism with some of the most exciting and thought-provoking fiction, poetry and essays the magazine has published since it was founded in 1975 as Room of One’s Own. This collection includes poems about men not to be fallen in love with, trans womanhood, the morning-after pill, the ‘mind-fuck’ of being raped by a romantic partner, and a tribute to the women who were murdered in the Montréal Massacre. In one story, a group of sexual assault survivors meet weekly and come up with a unique way to help police capture their assailant, while in another a dinner party turns to witty talk of racism, sexism, pornography, and time travel. One author recounts how she learned multiple languages in order to connect with her father, another reluctantly walks down the aisle in order to stay in Canada with the man she loves.

For forty years, Room has created a space for diverse writers. As Amber Dawn says in her opening essay, ‘There is Room. We do fit.’”

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