Twenty-Five Rooms: Selections from the Hotel Archive

"A hotel is defined by its inhabitants, runs Hotel's tagline. If Hotel itself were a concrete edifice, it would be more like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas's Circus-Circus than the Grand Budapest, despite its tasteful, clean exterior. Its commitment to "new approaches to fiction, non-fiction and poetry" promises all manner of havoc. It is not the only journal committed to literary innovation, but it is among the best..." - Camille Ralph, The Times Literary SupplementHotel is an irregular publication run by a voluntary editorial collective that showcases experimental reflection on literature's status as art and cultural mediator. Providing a space for the publication of new and under-represented authors alongside emerging and established practitioners working within the literary field today, the hotel is both a primary metaphor and structural mechanism. Writers come and take a room - do with it what they will - and, for the duration of their stay, the hotel is defined by its inhabitants; defined by the work that takes temporary residence therein. Twenty-Five Rooms, a collaborative publication co-produced by Hotel and Dostoyevsky Wannabe, collects original material from the first eighteen months of Hotel's online activities. Pooling a number of select entries from the Hotel Archive - an ongoing and growing corpus of digitally published poetry and prose - Twenty-Five Rooms collates twenty-five works from the early life of this online series, gathering twenty-five voices into an imagined run of proverbial rooms, and includes contributions from Rainald Goetz (translated by Adrian Nathan West) ; Kristín Ómarsdóttir (translated by Vala Thorodds) ; John Holten; Leah S. Dworkin; Luc Sante; Emma Mackilligin; Kyle Coma-Thompson; Gareth Evans; Lauren Dostal; Molly Gunther; Joanna Rafael Goldberg; Helen Charman; Jessica Bonder; Rowan Evans; Jonathan Chandler; NJ Stallard; Anne Michaels; Jack Goldstein; Anna Cathenka; A.K. Blakemore; Luke Kennard; Adrian Bridget; Jess Cotton; Sam Weselowski; and Nina Mingya Powles, with an epigram from James R. "Jim" Hugunin.