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...
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...
This year’s Fiction Contest judge is the award-winning novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist, Heather O'Neill. Her novels Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night and Daydreams of Angels, have been shortlisted for the Governor...
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...
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...
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...
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...
We are so very pleased to announce the winners of our 2022 Short Forms Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three writers whose works were handpicked by our amazing judge, Alix Ohlin. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are! ____ First Place:...
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...
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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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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