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Short Forms Contest 2020: Winners!

Short Forms Contest 2020: Winners!

Here's some good news in during a brisk February day - the winners of the 2020 Short Forms contest are finally here! A big thank you goes out to our wonderful judge, Lisa Bird-Wilson, for the time and effort that went into choosing these pieces, and of course, to...

Short Forms Contest 2020: The Shortlist

Short Forms Contest 2020: The Shortlist

The selection process is never easy, but here it is - the shortlist for this year's Short Forms contest. Many thanks, again, to all those who entered, and to our wonderful judge, Lisa Bird-Wilson. Congratulations to the five writers whose contest submissions have been...

44.4 Open Issue

44.4 Open Issue

Room Magazine invites unpublished writing on any theme for our open issue 44.4, edited by Selina Boan, alongside Assistant Editor, Angelica Poversky and Shadow Editors, Hope Lauterbach and Asna Shaikh. Before submitting, please read our About section to see if your...

Short Forms Contest 2020: Winners!

Poetry Contest 2020: The Winners

We are thrilled to finally share the final results of our 2020 Poetry Contest! Huge congratulations to the following three poets, whose works have been selected by our acclaimed judge, Canisia Lubrin, as the winners and honourable mention for our 2020 Poetry Contest!...

Growing Room Festival 2021 Cancellation

Growing Room Festival 2021 Cancellation

It is with great care and sadness that Room announces the cancellation of Growing Room Literary & Arts festival for March 2021, and until further notice. The cancellation of Growing Room Literary & Arts festival 2020 due to COVID-19 left us all heartbroken;...

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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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