In this week's episode of Lit Mag Love: A podcast for creative writers who want to publish, host Rachel Thompson interviews Doyali Islam from Arc magazine.

Their conversation covers offering an emotional truth, creating intimacy with the reader, and how poets and readers of poetry feel a sense of belonging through poem. Doyali is someone who recites her favourite poems to keep herself company as she moves invisibly about the city. If you spot her in her cat-print dress, though, she would love to connect with you and tells listeners just how to do so!

Lit Mag Love: Share Intimacy with Doyali Islam of Arc Poetry Magazine

Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people.

In addition to the quarterly magazine, Room hosts two podcasts (Lit Mag Love and Fainting Couch Feminists), workshops, and an annual literary festival in Vancouver, B.C.

Lit Mag Love: Share Intimacy with Doyali Islam of Arc Poetry Magazine

Room Magazine