We’re just as excited as you are: the 2022 Poetry Contest Shortlist is here! A big thank you to our esteemed judge, Lillian Allen, for her time, effort, and careful consideration of submissions. Congrats to these poets!
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Room Magazine’s 2022 Poetry Contest Shortlist
Viewer Commiseration is Contrived, by Vironika Wilde
Voice like Birdsong, by Jade Riordan
There Are No Streets Named Marie, by Jennifer Adese
the withholding map, by Dora Prieto
Beginning to End, by Emily Cann
Getting to Voice, by Kate Marshall Flaherty
Barkerville Cemetery, by Heather Cameron
Mining for the Metropole, by Anna Lee-Popham
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As always, a huge thank you to all who submitted to our contest, and to those on our longlist. We so appreciate you sending in your work, and hope to see more of your writing in the future. The winners will be announced next week, so keep an eye on our website! In the meantime, our 2022 Cover Art Contest has just opened, and is eager for all your stunning photos, collages, drawings, sketches, and anything else you can dream up.
