Room publishes original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by folks of marginalized genders, including but not limited to women (cisgender and transgender),  transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. We encourage writers with overlapping under-represented identities to submit, and we don’t want writers to feel restricted by gender or genre labels, so if you are unsure if your work is a fit for Room, please get in touch.

Each issue of Room is edited by a different editorial team. Each time you submit to Room, you will be read by different readers and editors with different editorial tastes and preferences.

    We are open for submissions: Issue 48.3, Rest/Unrest

    Room Magazine invites you to submit your writing to our Issue 48.3: Rest/Unrest, edited by Rachel Thompson, alongside Assistant Editor Holly Lam, and Shadow Editors Katie Stobbart and Hamdah Shabbir.

    Pause. Breathe. Reflect. Resist. Then Submit to     Room 48.3: In Rest/Unrest, we’ll unravel the forces and structures denying us rest and celebrate the act of reclaiming it. Send us your stories, poems, and hybrid pieces on moments of pause, sacred naps, and rebelling against our hyper-productive world. Editors Rachel Thompson, Holly Lam, Hamdah Shabbir, and Katie Stobbart welcome writing on burnout, rest as resistance, hibernation, fallow periods, reclaiming time, and your unique interpretations of rest/unrest. Submit your best work in any genre that lies down within literary tradition and rises against it.

    Our editors are interested in sharp, relevant, and provocative works of CNF, fiction that is visceral, concise, and of deep emotional resonance, and poetry that urges questions, dreaming, and feeling inside the reader. Throughout these forms, we are interested in strong narrative and poetic voices that command our attention. In our art submissions, we are seeking works of glitches, surrealism, paper collage, photography, mixed-materials, and fabric-based art that supports our desire to knit together all the literary pieces we uncover during our submissions call.

     

    Submissions open November 15 and will be accepted on a rolling basis until we reach our submissions limit.

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