The first decade (1975-1987)

Riding the wave : an interview with room co-founder Gayla Reid / Leah Golob

Editorial from issue 1.1

No rape no. / Cyndia Cole

Grade three / Lepma Gom

Was the Malcolm Lowry? / Sandy Francis Duncan

Untouchables : a memoir / Audrey Thomas

Musing with mothertongue / Daphne Marlatt

Ten sketches / Carole Itter

Hysteria / Helen Potrebenko

To Karen / Betsy Warland

Mooring-buoy/Moored-body / Monique Bosco

Women as poets / Dorothy Livesay

Nothing is private / Dorothy Livesay

The smell of sulphur / Marian Engel

Still life with nude / Lorna Crozier

Sea gifts / Constance Rooke

Sleeping together / Susan Musgrave

State of rescue / Erin Moure

The face she makes / Nicole Brossard

Straight talking / Carolyn Smart

This is not chick lit : an interview with editor Mary Schedlinger / Lindsay Galuser Kwan

These hips / Kate Braid

The busuuti and the bra / Juliane Okot Bitek

From the cancer year / Dorothy Elias & Barbara Findlay

The Japanese rock garden I will have when I am an old woman / Mindy Hung

La guerra / Vera Manuel

Twoscore and five / Cynthia Flood

Helpful hints / Barbara Findlay

VillainElle / Lynn Crosbie

Notes on the sexual division of labour / Carmelita McGrath

What she tells them / Gail Anderson-Dargatz

The orange fish / Carol Shields

Kiss me or something / Jane Eaton Hamilton

The way my mother (although first of many children) never / Wasela Hiyate

Trips to the basement / Su Croll

The third decade (1998-2007)

Are we feminist enough? An interview with editor Lana Okerlund / Meghan Bell

From 14, as more than just a number—Montreal massacre / Anna Humphrey

My hero / Ivan Coyote

Love that red / Tracey Lindberg

Men not to be fallen in love with / Helen Kuk

Blue knot / Sina Queyras

Theories / Robin Blackburn McBride

The adulteress, lunch, and masturbation / Nancy Holmes

Mattie's husband / Annabel Lyon

Cup of tea / Junie Desil

Shelter / Fiona Tinwei Lam

Lament / Eden Robinson

Skin of the road / Tanya Evanson

Hanging / Susan Stenson

Skin / Elizabeth Bachinsky

Bolt / Christine Estima

Morning after / Anna Swanson

Ghetto feminism / Amber Dawn

The fourth decade (2008-2016)

Translating intention into action : an interview with room's former managing editor Rachel Thompson / Kayi Wong

The river phoenix social club / Monica Pacheco

A precise benefit / Mate Kulic

Everybody out of the pool / Naoko Kumagai

Love and other irregular verbs / Sigal Samuel

The marrying kind / Ayelet Tsabari

Even if you wanted to be good, the night would stop you / Jen Sookfong Lee

Walk a mile in her red high heels / Marie Annharte Baker

Drowning not waving / M. Nourbese Philip

Face / Evelyn Lau

Brain / Evelyn Lau

Skin / Evelyn Lau

Pregnant / Souvankham Thammavongsa

Amah / Devyani Saltzman

Writing, in transit / Najwa Ali

Listing / Chimwemwe Undi

Reading this list of names, I find myself / Cara-Lyn Morgan

As long as you look hurt / Kellee Ngan

Maheen's collage / Nilofar Shidmehr

Fishing / Serena Shipp

Mountain pine beetle suite / Chantal Gibson

How to keep your day job / Rebecca Rosenblum

Wolves, cigarettes, gum / Amy Jones

And then we let ourselves in / Aislinn Hunter

Failed seances for Rita Macneil (1944-2013) / Lucas Crawford

Our lady of San Juan River / Carmen Aguirre

Trans womanhood, in colour / Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

Free fall / Danielle Daniel

Best practices for time travel / Doretta Lau

No comment / Alessandra Naccarato

Cover art

Somewhere in between / Emily Cooper

Afterwords

The future of room / Chelene Knight

On the making of making room / Meghan Bell