Fiction Contest 2024: The Shortlist

It’s finally here! Congrats to the following six writers who were shortlisted by our judge, Sarah Bernstein, for our 2024 Fiction Contest!

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Room Magazine’s 2024 Fiction Contest Shortlist

Grief, by Jaclyn Desforges

We, Fleeting, by Jody Chan

Apple Cake, by Aleksandra Merk

Motherhood (or, The Stranger and the Cave), by Shelby Satterthwaite

Eat Your Heart, by Megan Callahan

Sad Robot, by Camie Kim

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A big thank you to our wonderful judge, Sarah Bernstein, for her careful and kind consideration of these works. If you missed the longlist, you can find it here. Congrats again to these writers!

Winners are coming next week, but in the meantime, if you’d like to try your hand at submitting to a contest, our Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Angela Sterritt, is open for submissions until June 15th.

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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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