Canadian exceptionalism. “Canlit.” “Cancon.” For Room 49.3 “No Canada,” we are looking for poetry, prose, and art that offers a critical or alternate lens in this time of sentimental patriotism. For local stories, national anxieties, mixed feelings, and alienated...
Science is both a lexicon for what we know and a field of exploration for what we don’t know yet. In Room Magazine’s Science, as in science, we will savour curiosity, question orthodoxy, dig into hidden histories and understudied areas, and titrate, examine,...
As we shake off the long winter, we hope your creativity is creeping out of hibernation, too. Here’s a spring list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more! Calls for submission: Artists ROOM Magazine | Art and photos for...
Room Magazine invites unpublished writing on any theme for our open issue 48.4, edited by Sadie Graham, Natasha Gauthier, Fran Pacchiano, and Chimedum Ohaegbu. Without prescription or limitation, we want to see your best work. Work that takes risks, with language...
We know that rest is essential for our well-being and for staying grounded in the vital work of resistance and transformation, yet it’s easy to get caught in the whirlwind of constant motion. Room staff and editors shared the following practices to support you in...
Why is humour sacred and what is its role within literature? Jane: Humour is incredibly important within the storytelling traditions of so many of our communities. It signals shared values and the capacity to break rules, find joy, and expose ethical failings in an...
Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and art on any theme for our open issue 47.4, edited by Shristi Uprety, Rose Morris, Melissa Barrientos, and Kailee Wakeman. Underrepresented writers—including but not exclusive to women (cis and trans), trans men, Two Spirit...
Spring is here, and everything's slowly blooming into life ⎯ we hope your creativity is creeping out of hibernation, too. Here's a list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more! Calls for submission: Artists Filling Station | Art |...
Wade through the pleasures and pains of the flesh with us in the BODIES issue! Seeking writing and visual art about touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the...
Who is the future for? Room and guest editors from Augur Magazine seek artists of marginalized genders for fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, and poems of utopic exploration. Is Utopia possible, and for whom? What are the DIY steps to craft beauty from...