The results of our Poetry and Fiction Contest 2016 are finally out! Congratulations to the following authors who shared their work with us and our judges. We are always thankful for the willingness of writers to share their work with us, and the generosity of our...
"I've heard quite a few myths about writing contests and will try to debunk a few here ..." As if trying to get your writing published doesn't feel enough like stepping into the Colosseum and letting the teeming masses assess our value......or worse, ignore us...
And the winners are ... Congratulations to the winners of our Annual Creative Non-Fiction Contest! Here are the winners of our Annual CNF Contest. Thanks to all the writers, who shared with us their writing, and to Kate Braid, for selecting the shortlisted pieces...
CNF Contest shortlist announced! As judged by Kate Braid, the shortlisted pieces from our Annual CNF Contest are finally here! Can you believe this? Oh how proud and excited we are. Thank you to all who submitted!"An Atmospheric Pressure" by Nicole Breit, Port...
Here are the twenty-one entries that have been shortlisted for Room's Annual Poetry and Fiction Contest. With over 420 entries this year, the selection was not an easy task for our esteemed judges, Shani Mootoo (Fiction), and Jen Currin (Poetry). Winners will be...
Send us your best work! Submissions to our 2014 annual contest are open until Aug. 1, 2014 at midnight. Categories: Fiction, Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction PrizesPer categoryFirst prize: $500 + publication in RoomSecond prize: $250 +...
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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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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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