Short Forms Contest 2024: The Shortlist

We’re just as excited as you are: the 2024 Short Forms Contest Shortlist is here! A big thank you to our esteemed judge, Zalika Reid-Benta, for her time, effort, and careful consideration of submissions. Congrats to these writers!

Room Magazine’s 2024 Short Forms Contest Shortlist

  • Definitions for Non-Fish, by Shaheen Virk
  • Erasure with Dead Flies, by Elisávet Makridis
  • The Ease With With We Lose Each Other, by Carley Mayson
  • Wildfire, by Lana Kouchnir
  • About Your Boyfriend, by Ella Ramsay

As always, a huge thank you to all who submitted to our contest, and to those on our longlist. We so appreciate you sending in your work, and hope to see more of your writing in the future. The winners for the 2024 Short Forms Contest will be announced next week, so keep an eye on our website!

In the meantime, our Fiction Contest is open and still accepting submissions: try your hand at a contest, and maybe it’ll be your name on our next shortlist!

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