We are so excited to bring you the results of this year’s Fiction Contest, judged by Sarah Bernstein. The wait is finally over: here are this year’s winners! ---- FIRST PLACE: Sad Robot, by Camie Kim Camie Kim's work has appeared in Books in...
Contest Winners
Motherhood, (or the Stranger and the Cave)
“Motherhood, (or the Stranger and the Cave)” is the Third Place winner for Room’s 2024 Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Sarah Bernstein writes: "This exquisitely-written piece about a being living at the mouth of a mysterious cave has shades of Angela Carter....
Fiction Contest 2024: The Longlist
We are so thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2024 Fiction Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for selecting our longlist. These submissions will now be reviewed by this year's judge, Sarah Bernstein. A big congratulations to these talented...
Making Moccasins
“Making Moccasins” is the Third Place Winner for Room’s 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Tajja Isen writes: This is a blazing, deeply felt essay about pregnancy, miscarriage, and family-making. As well as being a moving act of remembrance, the...
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2023: The Winners
Drumroll, please! Here are the three winners of our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Tajja Isen. A big congratulations to these three writers! --- FIRST PLACE: our brothers started dying, by Natalie Appleton Natalie Appleton is a graduate of the...
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2023: The Shortlist
The Creative Non-Fiction Shortlist has arrived! A big congratulations to the five writers whose submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Tajja Isen! — Room Magazine 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest: The Shortlist The Train, by Murgatroyd Monaghan Holy...
Fiction Contest 2023: The Winners
We are so excited to bring you the results of this year's Fiction Contest, judged by Heather O'Neill. The wait is finally over: here are this year's winners! ----- FIRST PLACE: "Eggshells" by Rebekah Skochinski Rebekah Skochinski is a writer based in Northwestern...
Seasons Change
“Seasons Change” is the Third Place winner for Room’s 2023 Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Heather O'Neill writes: "This story was so elegant and perfect. There was not a spare word. In this small story, a relationship between a man and woman is explored in a...
2022 Creative Non-Fiction Contest First Place: “Clink Canoe,” by MƏLIDI (SYDNEY ROBERTS)
Gearing up for our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest (deadline July 1)? Check out the first-place work from last year’s contest — “Clink Canoe,”
by MƏLIDI (SYDNEY ROBERTS) — featured in ROOM 46.2: Ley Line.
The Chipmunk
The Chipmunk is the Third Place Winner of Room’s 2022 Short Forms Contest, as judged by Alix Ohlin. You can find the full list of winners, and what judge Alix Ohlin had to say about each winning piece, here. ___ The Chipmunk At the campsite, my sister and I knot...
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