We are thrilled to bring you the results of this year’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Angela Sterritt. The wait is over: here are this year’s winners! —- FIRST PLACE: Handful of Her Ashes for the Potter, by Judith Newcomb Stiles Judith Newcomb Stiles Stiles...
This year's Creative Non-Fiction Shortlist has arrived! A big congratulations to the six writers whose submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Angela Sterritt! — Room Magazine 2024 Creative Non-Fiction Contest: The Shortlist Sunoco, by A.R. Sherbatov...
We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2024 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for the creation of this longlist, and a big congratulations to these talented writers. --- Room Magazine’s 2024 Creative Non-Fiction...
Photo Credit: Kes Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian poet, academic and activist based in London, UK. Her performance of poems like ‘We Teach Life, Sir’ and ‘Shades of Anger’ went viral within days of release. Her live readings offer a moving blend of poetry and music....
We are so excited to bring you the results of this year’s Fiction Contest, judged by Sarah Bernstein. The wait is finally over: here are this year’s winners! ---- FIRST PLACE: Sad Robot, by Camie Kim Camie Kim's work has appeared in Books in...
It’s finally here! Congrats to the following six writers who were shortlisted by our judge, Sarah Bernstein, for our 2024 Fiction Contest! --- Room Magazine’s 2024 Fiction Contest Shortlist Grief, by Jaclyn Desforges We, Fleeting, by Jody Chan Apple Cake, by...
We are so thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2024 Fiction Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for selecting our longlist. These submissions will now be reviewed by this year's judge, Sarah Bernstein. A big congratulations to these talented...
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2023 Short Forms Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three authors whose brief and beautiful works were handpicked by esteemed judge, Tsering Yangzom Lama. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are!...
It’s finally here! We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2023 Short Forms Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for carefully selecting this longlist, and a big congratulations to these talented poets. --- Room Magazine’s 2023 Short...
Photo credit: Alice Meikle Sarah Bernstein is a Canadian writer who was born in Montreal and currently lives in Scotland. She has published three books, including a collection of prose poems titled Now Comes the Lightning (2015) and two novels, The Coming Bad Days...
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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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