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Room is Hiring a New Publisher!

Room is Hiring a New Publisher!

Room magazine is seeking to hire a new publisher. The ideal candidate will have previous work experience in literary, grassroots, scholarly, or academic magazine or book publishing, especially in areas of finance, grant writing, and circulation. Working as part of a...

Short Forms Contest 2021: The Shortlist

Short Forms Contest 2021: The Shortlist

The 2021 Short Forms Contest shortlist is here! Congratulations to these five authors whose contest submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Michelle Good!   Room's 2021 Short Forms Contest: The Shortlist  Half Life by Makda Mulatu She Is Dancing...

Short Forms Contest 2021: The Longlist

Short Forms Contest 2021: The Longlist

You’ve waited long enough. Here is the longlist for our 2021 Short Forms Contest! Congratulations to the following twelve writers! Room‘s 2021 Short Forms Contest: The Longlist  Lou, by Rose Camara Body, by Jaki Eisman It's All About Agency; Self-Portrait at Twenty,...

Fiction Contest 2021: The Shortlist

Fiction Contest 2021: The Shortlist

Five writers have made our 2021 Fiction Contest Shortlist. A big thank you to our esteemed judge, Jenny Heijun Wills, for her careful consideration, and congrats to these talented writers!   We Climbed Up Glaciers, by Rayne Weinstein Love with Responsibility, by...

Fiction Contest 2021: The Longlist

Fiction Contest 2021: The Longlist

The time has come for us to share the longlisted pieces from our 2021 Fiction Contest. Congratulations to the following thirteen writers, and thank you to all those who submitted their work! Chitlin, by Chloe Copti Love with Responsibility, by Alana Rigby...

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ROOM 49.3 NO CANADA

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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Cover image for Room Magazine Issue 49.2, Science. Art by Candace Cosentino of an old-fashioned computer monitor with a bounty of dandelions growing from it.

ROOM 49.2 Science

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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