Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2021: The Longlist

It’s finally here: our 2021 Creative Non-Fiction Contest longlist! Congratulations to these thirteen writers, and a heartfelt thank you to all those who submitted work to this year’s contest.

Light and Shadow: One Painting, Two Lives, Emily McKibbon
Zebrafish, Neive Dwyer
Combustion Sustaining, Life Supporting: A Diptych, Kristen Morrison
Missing Teeth, Alia Omar
Maggie May, Sarah Holloway
Searching for Leoni, Jillian Sunderland
The Awakening at Hains Point, Linette Marie Allen
An Artist’s Model, Tove Black
The Night Of, Sofia Sears
How to bird without a name, Laila Malik
The Unforgivable, Zoe Smith-Holladay
I Can Feel Him Breathing, Tara McGuire
A New Natural, Kylie Hough

These pieces are now up for consideration for the shortlist, to be read by our judge, Dr Njoki Wane. The shortlist will be announced Friday, September 17th. If you missed submitting to our CNF contest this time around, our Short Forms Contest is now open, until November 15th!

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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.

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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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