Fiction Contest 2023: The Shortlist

We are so excited to announce the 2023 Fiction Contest shortlist! Many thanks, again, to all those who entered, and to our wonderful judge, Heather O’Neill, for her care and consideration with the longlisted works. Congratulations to these five writers!

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Room Magazine’s 2023 Fiction Contest: The Shortlist

  • Eggshells, by Rebekah Skochinski 
  • Gangnam Station, Exit 10 by Lee Kyung Min
  • Seasons Change, by Melissa Ren
  • Once More is All it Takes, by Katherine Abbass
  • Secondhand Skins, by Heather McLeod

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The list of winners will be coming your way next week, but until then, check out our Poetry Contest, open now until September 15th!

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ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA

In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?

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Cover image for Room Magazine Issue 49.2, Science. Art by Candace Cosentino of an old-fashioned computer monitor with a bounty of dandelions growing from it.

ROOM 49.2 Science

Welcome to the Science issue of Room Magazine, where we privilege questions: questions about how to construct better worlds; questions about how to destroy hyper-capitalistic, necropolitical systems; questions that beget questions and new questions.

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