Contest Winners

Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2026: The Winners

Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2026: The Winners

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...

Creative Non-Fiction 2026 Contest: The Shortlist

2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Longlist

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...

Poetry Contest 2026: The Winners

Poetry Contest 2026: The Winners

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...

2026 Poetry Contest Longlist

2026 Poetry Contest Longlist

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...

Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2025: The Winners

Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2025: The Winners

Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2025: The Winners It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2025 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as chosen by our fantastic judge, Amy Lin. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their works! FIRST PLACE: This Essay is a Hug...

Creative Non-Fiction 2026 Contest: The Shortlist

Fiction Contest 2025: The Winners

Fiction Contest 2025: The Winners It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2025 Fiction Contest, as chosen by our wonderful judge, Janika Oza. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their works! ————— FIRST PLACE: Georgie Millionaire, by Camille...

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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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