Our 2026 Fiction Contest is judged by Terese Mason Pierre! Terese Mason Pierre (she/her) is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Walrus, ROOM, Brick, Quill & Quire, Uncanny, and Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, among others. Her work has...
It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as chosen by our fantastic judge, Kai Cheng Thom. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their works! FIRST PLACE: Language of Poverty, by Alison Colwell Alison Colwell is a...
We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for our 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, selected by our judge, Kai Cheng Thom. A big congratulations to these talented writers! ⎯ Room Magazine’s 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist Language of Poverty, by Alison...
We are so thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for selecting our longlist. These submissions will now be reviewed by 2026's Creative Non-Fiction Contest judge, Kai Cheng Thom. A big...
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...
We are so thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2026 Poetry Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for selecting our longlist. These submissions will now be reviewed by 2026's Poetry Contest judge, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. A big...
In a world where it's possible to augment remembering and memory-making, where does that leave our relationships? Today, we're sitting with "Surviving in Captivity" by Premee Mohamed, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science. Surviving in Captivity by Premee Mohamed...
What if memory was a site of negotiation? What would you preserve, rewrite, re-remember? Today, we're sitting with "Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection #924-F" by Abeer Dagher Esber, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science. Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection...
women & roosters by Fenn Stewart Book*hug Press 80 pages $23 Fenn Stewart’s second collection of poetry, women & roosters, unfolds as a single long poem that circles around themes of climate change, loneliness, and our relationships with one another and the...
To Place a Rabbit by Madhur Anand Knopf Canada 240 pages $33 The phrase “to place a rabbit”—poser un lapin—translates as “to commit to doing something but not show up for it.” Doubling as the title of Madhur Anand’s debut novel, the expression at once captures the...
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?
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
No Canada | 49.3
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Science | 49.2
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No Future For Who? | 49.1
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REST/UNREST | 48.3
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Travellers | 48.2
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Wits End | 48.1
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Full Circle | 47.4
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Bodies | 47.3
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Seedpod | 47.2
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Utopia | 47.1
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