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Around the Table: Literary Readings Celebrating Asian Voices

Mar 7, 2023 | Growing Room Events

Sunday, March 26th 2pm-5pm PST In-Person at Massy Arts Gallery | Streaming on Zoom Join...

Short Forms Contest 2022: The Winners

Mar 3, 2023 | Announcement, Contest, Contest Winners, What's New

We are so very pleased to announce the winners of our 2022 Short Forms Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three writers whose works were handpicked by our amazing judge, Alix Ohlin. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are! ____ First Place:...

Short Forms Contest 2022: The Shortlist

Feb 21, 2023 | Announcement, Contest, What's New

The 2022 Short Forms shortlist is here! Congratulations to the six writers whose contest submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Alix Ohlin! — Room Magazine 2022 Short Forms Contest: The Shortlist A Void is a Ghost, by ViNa Nguyen Foxholes, by Tina...

Call for Submissions: Issue 46.4

Feb 15, 2023 | Call for Submission

Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and art on any theme for our open issue 46.4, edited by Shristi Uprety, Ruchika Gothoskar and Tara Preissl. Before submitting, please read our About section to see if your work fits within Room’s mandate, then refer to...

Short Forms Contest 2022: The Longlist

Feb 13, 2023 | Announcement, Contest, Uncategorized, What's New

The longlist is here! Here are the thirteen longlisted pieces from our 2022 Short Forms Contest, which closed back in November. ---- Room Magazine 2022 Short Forms Contest: The Longlist Bookmarks Tab, by Sadie McCarney On Wings, by Danica Longair Foxholes, by Tina...

Interview with Room’s 2022 Cover Art Contest Judge, Ness Lee

Jan 30, 2023 | Announcement, Contest, Interview, What's New

Ness Lee is an illustrator and artist based out of Toronto whose work has been featured at the AGO, the Agnes Etherington Art Center, the Gardiner Museum, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, as well as galleries in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Montreal. Lee is...

Climate Action, Identity Politics, and CanLit Aesthetics: An Interview with Farah Ghafoor

Jan 3, 2023 | Interview, What's New

ROOM: The subject of climate action reoccurs in your work often, especially in your prize-winning poem "Self Portrait with Polar Bears." The line, "How sick I am with beauty, / how spoiled of light," is a beautiful rendering of the guilt that I think many of us sit...

Indigenous Brilliance Podcast – Season 2 Ep. 3: Intentional composting is creative community care process

Dec 23, 2022 | Indigenous Brilliance, Podcast, The Indigenous Brilliance Podcast, What's New

play episode here In the final episode of season 2, Art Ecosystem members Lexi and Karmella chat with friend and community member Kílila Raine (Squamish Nation) about transformative justice, harm reduction and accountability processes in the context of self care,...

10 Books and Stories That Haunt Us From Room Magazine’s Ghost-issue Editors

Dec 12, 2022 | Book Reviews, Reading Room, What's New

In preparation for Issue 46.3: Ghosts, the editors of the issue collected a list of ten works of writing currently haunting them.

Viewer Commiseration is Contrived

Dec 9, 2022 | Contest

Viewer Commiseration is Contrived is the Third Place Winner of Room’s 2022 Poetry Contest, as judged by Lillian Allen. You can find the full list of winners, and what judge Lillian Allen had to say about each winning piece, here. Viewer Commiseration is Contrived Last...