Finally—the results are in. Major congrats to the three winners of our 2019 Cover Art Contest! Finally—the results are in. Major congrats to the three winners of our 2019 Cover Art Contest!Room's 2019 Cover Art Contest WinnersFirst Place: “The Trinity of Self Care” by...
“Calling the River” is a digital representation of future-present Indigneous life. An Indigneous youth stands tall and proud, calling out to the river by its many names. The youth has adapted a traditional ribbon skirt into ribbon pants, and traditional design work...
Tension, a graphic memoir by Afro-Asian artist Pearl Low, is about a woman learning to love and embrace her roots—literally. “I never used to mind my hair. . . until other people started to,” she writes in the opening strip, which depicts a younger Low who bemoans her...
The 2019 Cover Art Contest shortlist is here! Congratulations to the eight artists whose contest submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Lindsay Nixon! The 2019 Cover Art Contest shortlist is here! Congratulations to the eight artists whose contest...
The results are finally here. Our warmest congratulations to the three winners of our 2019 Short Forms Contest! Photo credit: Melanie Evelyn The results are finally here. Our warmest congratulations to the three writers whose works have been selected by our esteemed...
“Baby Shark” is the honourable mention for Room’s Short Forms Contest 2019. Many years ago, when I was four, I made a bargain with dida. If she took me for a movie in the evening, I would eat my lunch without fuss, like a bhalo meye. “Okay,” she said, “It has to be a...
Thank you to all the writers who shared their short form pieces with us and our esteemed fiction judge, Gwen Benaway! Here are the twelve longlisted submissions from this year's contest. The Short Forms shortlist is here! Congratulations to the five writers whose...
Thank you to all the writers who shared their short form pieces with us and our esteemed fiction judge, Gwen Benaway! Here are the twelve longlisted submissions from this year's contest. Thank you to all the writers who shared their short form pieces with us and our...
“Dead spider frozen in ice are you dead.” is the honourable mention for Room’s Poetry Contest 2019 as selected by judge Pamela Mordecai. Dead spider frozen in ice are you dead. If I melt you will you wake up again and give us all polio. Is polio even that bad. You are...
Photo credit: Carissa D'andradeYou've waited long enough. Here are the fourteen longlisted poems from our 2019 Poetry Contest!Room's 2019 Poetry Contest: The Longlist“Against Tyrannical Lines” by Steffi Tad-y“Arktos / Exóriotos” by kerry rawlinson“Courage” by Katie...
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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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