What does it mean to belong, whether it’s to a place, a time, a community, a person, or something else entirely? Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and visual art, including graphic forms, for issue 50.1 on the theme “Belonging,” edited by natasha gauthier, Gitanjali D. Sarker, Claire Diamant, and Diana Samu-Visser.
Send us your takes on belonging, not belonging, longing to belong, otherness, belonging on the fringe, belonging to the future, the past, the now. We welcome your imaginings, experiences, dreams, and fears of belonging in all their manifestations and intersections: poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as always, but we’re also eager to read your comics, hybrids, graphic essays, and other forms that resist and defy the boundaries of belonging in the art world.
Underrepresented artists—such as women (cis and trans), trans men, Two-Spirit, non-binary, BIPOC, queer, neurodiverse, disabled, low-income, or having lived experience with sex work, addictions, or mental health challenges—are particularly encouraged to submit and welcomed to self-identify in their cover letter to have their submissions prioritized.
Before submitting, please read our About section to see if your work fits within Room’s mandate, then refer to the Submission Guidelines on how to format your work.
