“Around the Table” will be edited by Michelle Ha, alongside assistant editors Isabella Wang and Asna Shaikh, and shadow Shristi Uprety. The team will be looking for fiction and nonfiction prose, poetry, black-and-white art and photographs, and mixed-genre/hybrid writings, so submit in whichever form you feel tells your story the best.
Amazing news, friends: jaye simpson is Room's 2022 mentor-in-residence! jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation. simpson is a writer, advocate and activist sharing their knowledge and lived experiences in hope of creating...
Room Magazine invites unpublished writing on any theme for our open issue 45.4, edited by Micah Killjoy, alongside Assistant Editor, Ruchika Gothoskar and Shadow Editors, Stacey Gardner and Kaiya Jacob. Send us your contemplative essays, dark poetry, strange fiction, purely wholesome content, and everything in-between.
We invite you to submit your unpublished work to the “Audacity” issue of Room—an issue we hope will dare to risk normalcy and politeness in the name of bold and uncompromising truth. “Audacity” will be edited by Molly Cross-Blanchard (author of Exhibitionist) and...
Room Magazine invites unpublished writing on any theme for our open issue 45.2, edited by Lue Palmer, alongside Assistant Editor, Micah Killjoy and Shadow Editors, Cassandra Cervi and Ruchika Gothoskar. Get a chance to be published alongside this year's contest...
We are thrilled to announce the upcoming 45.1 Ancestors issue of Room magazine! This issue will feature commissioned work from Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), shortlisted for Canada Reads, a Lambda Literary Award, a...
We invite you to interpret our theme in the way that resonates most for you, whether that includes connecting with your ancestors, honouring the legacies you are a part of, setting out on a different path from those who came before you, or something entirely different.
I am anchored through the idea of “open” to guide my process as I’m looking at submissions. How does language require opening? How do we give up all assumptions? How do we dig out definitions?
Room Magazine invites unpublished writing on any theme for our open issue 44.4, edited by Selina Boan, alongside Assistant Editor, Angelica Poversky and Shadow Editors, Hope Lauterbach and Asna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...
ROOM 47.4 FULL CIRCLE
Step back with Room into the past, to parents, to childhood homes, and to people once known and loved; dig into themes of grief and healing; and ultimately explore what it means to come full circle in literature.
ROOM 47.3 BODIES
Join Room in a deep dive on the body: touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the bones and muscles you inhabit every day.
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
Full Circle | 47.4
$10.00 – $20.00
Bodies | 47.3
$15.00 – $25.00
Seedpod | 47.2
$12.00 – $25.00
Utopia | 47.1
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Sponsor a Contributor
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Sponsor a Writer
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Sponsor a Poet
$50.00
Fever Dream | 46.4
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Fever Dream Tote Bag — Limited Edition
Ghosts | 46.3
$12.00 – $25.00