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Fiction Contest 2023: The Shortlist

Fiction Contest 2023: The Shortlist

We are so excited to announce the 2023 Fiction Contest shortlist! Many thanks, again, to all those who entered, and to our wonderful judge, Heather O'Neill, for her care and consideration with the longlisted works. Congratulations to these five writers! ----- Room...

Fiction Contest 2023: The Shortlist

Fiction Contest 2023: The Longlist

We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2023 Fiction Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for selecting our longlist. These submissions are now up for consideration by our judge, Heather O'Neill. A big congratulations to these talented...

Cover Art Contest 2022: The Winners

Cover Art Contest 2022: The Winners

The results are in. A big congrats to the three winners of our 2022 Cover Art Contest! --- FIRST PLACE: ghost no more, by  semillites hernandez velasco semillites hernández velasco (he/him) is a trans and brown visual artist and printmaker based in vancouver, on the...

Cover Art Contest 2022: Third Place

Cover Art Contest 2022: Third Place

This piece is the third place winner for the 2022 Cover Art Contest, as judged by ness lee. THIRD PLACE: Interiors, by Danielle Klebes "Around the beginning of Covid, I rented a furnished apartment for a few months from a Hemingway-type-artist-man. It had taxidermy of...

Cover Art Contest 2022: Second Place

Cover Art Contest 2022: Second Place

This piece is the second place winner for the 2022 Cover Art Contest, as judged by ness lee. SECOND PLACE: Hoping Coping, by Mariana Ikuta "My work is centred in human connection exploring lyrical and emotional expression. I feel incredibly inspired by complex...

Cover Art Contest 2022: The Shortlist

Cover Art Contest 2022: The Shortlist

The 2022 Cover Art Contest shortlist is here! Congratulations to these five artists, whose contest submissions have been shortlisted by this year's judge, ness lee! ---- Room’s 2022 Cover Art Contest: The Shortlist Hoping Coping, by Mariana Ikuta Come See The Sky, by...

Short Forms Contest 2022: The Winners

Short Forms Contest 2022: The Shortlist

The 2022 Short Forms shortlist is here! Congratulations to the six writers whose contest submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Alix Ohlin! — Room Magazine 2022 Short Forms Contest: The Shortlist A Void is a Ghost, by ViNa Nguyen Foxholes, by Tina...

Short Forms Contest 2022: The Winners

Short Forms Contest 2022: The Longlist

The longlist is here! Here are the thirteen longlisted pieces from our 2022 Short Forms Contest, which closed back in November. ---- Room Magazine 2022 Short Forms Contest: The Longlist Bookmarks Tab, by Sadie McCarney On Wings, by Danica Longair Foxholes, by Tina...

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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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Cover image for Room Magazine Issue 49.2, Science. Art by Candace Cosentino of an old-fashioned computer monitor with a bounty of dandelions growing from it.

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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