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!

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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

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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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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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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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