Ness Lee is an illustrator and artist based out of Toronto whose work has been featured at the AGO, the Agnes Etherington Art Center, the Gardiner Museum, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, as well as galleries in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Miami and Montreal. Lee is...
"Viewer Commiseration is Contrived" is the Third Place Winner of Room’s 2022 Poetry Contest, as judged by Lillian Allen. You can find the full list of winners, and what judge Lillian Allen had to say about each winning piece, here. Viewer Commiseration is Contrived...
We are absolutely thrilled to announce the winners of our 2022 Poetry Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three poets whose works were handpicked by esteemed judge, Lillian Allen. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are! ---- First Place: The...
We're just as excited as you are: the 2022 Poetry Contest Shortlist is here! A big thank you to our esteemed judge, Lillian Allen, for her time, effort, and careful consideration of submissions. Congrats to these poets! --- Room Magazine’s 2022 Poetry Contest...
We are thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2022 Poetry Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members, and a big congratulations to these talented poets! ---- Room Magazine’s 2022 Poetry Contest Longlist Viewer Commiseration is Contrived, by Vironika...
Our 2022 Short Forms Contest is judged by Alix Ohlin! Alix Ohlin is the author of six books, mostly recently the novel Dual Citizens and the story collection We Want What We Want. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other...
Alix Ohlin is the author of six books, most recently the novel Dual Citizens and the story collection We Want What We Want. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in Vancouver and teaches at the UBC...
Drumroll, please! Here are the three winners of our 2022 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Luna Ferguson. A big congratulations to these three writers! Here is what Luna had to say about their works: First Place: Clink Canoe, by Sydney Roberts Sydney...
It’s finally here! Congrats to the following six writers who were shortlisted by our judge, Luna Ferguson, for our 2022 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! ---- Room Magazine’s 2022 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Shortlist Clink Canoe, by Sydney Roberts when ghosts dance, by...
The wait's over: our 2022 Creative Non-Fiction Contest longlist is here! Congratulations to these twelve writers, and our sincerest gratitude to all those who submitted work to this year’s contest. ---- Room Magazine’s 2022 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Longlist Girl...
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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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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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