Poetry Contest 2026: The Winners

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It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2026 Poetry Contest, as chosen by our fantastic judge, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their works! FIRST PLACE: For Doechii, by Isha Camara Isha Camara is a Gambian-American poet and visual artist from South Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her undergraduate […]

Pride Month Statement and Resource List 2026

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In our Pride Month Statement for 2025, we at Room Magazine emphasized the importance of not allowing corporate interests define Pride, but rather the people to whom Pride belongs: the queer Black and brown people who bleed for it, riot for it, and care for their communities. We especially must defy pinkwashing in light of […]

National Indigenous History Month 2026

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This statement was written in amiskwacîwâskahikan on Treaty 6, and Room’s collective members live on stolen lands all across so-called Canada, labouring in Moh’kinstsis, Tkaronto, Wînipêk, and on the traditional and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sʔəl̀ilwətaʔɬ, (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, colonially known as “Vancouver”. While it is important to acknowledge the land […]

An Emergence of New Knowing: Rebecca Mangra interv...

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Photo of Leila Chatti by Marcus Jackson. Photo of Rebecca Mangra by Brittany Carmichael.   Named one of Electric Literature’s Best Poetry Collections of 2025, Leila Chatti’s poetry collection Wildness Before Something Sublime deftly navigates the imbrications of despair and wonder with haunting grace. Writer and editor Rebecca Mangra interviews Leila Chatti to chat about […]

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