This June is both National Indigenous History Month and Pride. We're thinking of Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya's recent words in Autostraddle: "Pride this year will take place during the eighth month of an ongoing genocide against Palestinian people by Israel. This cannot...
“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....
“maskihkîwiwat” is the Third Place Winner of Room’s 2023 Short Forms Contest, as judged by Tsering Yangzom Lama. You can find the full list of winners, and what Tsering had to say about each winning piece, here. maskihkîwiwat My cousins made me promise that I’d spend...
Photo: cover art of Room 35.3 Duality Looking for inspiration before submitting to our 2024 Fiction Contest? Check out this fiction piece by our judge Sarah Bernstein, "Vanishing Point," from Room 35.3 Duality. ——— Over coffee, she observes the way the October...
Room's winter issue 46.4 FEVER DREAM is open for pre-orders until Dec 15th. Gracing this issue is Ainslie Hogarth's commissioned story "Bad Egg," a story about power, obsession, and two characters alone in a mansion during an apocalyptic storm. While you wait for...
First published in ROOM 39.1: WOMEN OF COLOUR, Sahar Mustafah’s fiction is a balm we return to this week. As we continue to amplify Palestinian voices, we urge our readers to demand a ceasefire and learn more about actions to take in solidarity with Palestine. ...
Accept that every house is haunted. Your dead are just a bit livelier than most.
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” 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...
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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