The results are in. Our warmest congratulations to the three winners of our 2020 Creative Non Fiction Contest! Photo credit: Carissa D'andrade The results are in. Our warmest congratulations to the three winners of our 2020 Creative Non Fiction Contest! Room's 2020...
You've waited long enough. Here are the thirteen longlisted essays from our 2019 Creative Non-Fiction Contest! Photo credit: Carissa D'andradeYou've waited long enough. Here are the thirteen longlisted essays from our 2019 Creative Non-Fiction Contest!Room's 2019 CNF...
Next week, we will be announcing the shortlists of each category, as chosen by judges Zoe Whittall and Vivek Shraya. Room's Annual Poetry & Fiction Contest 2018: The Long ListsYou've waited long enough for the 2018 Poetry & Fiction Contest long list! This is...
The long-awaited long list is here! Next week, we will be announcing the shortlisted pieces, as chosen by our judge Stacey May Fowles, so stay tuned! Room's Annual Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2018: The Long ListThe long-awaited long list is here! Next week, we will...
Congratulations to June Barrage, our 2017 Cover Art Contest Honourable Mention! June Barrage won the honourable mention in our 2017 Cover Art Contest with her series of paintings.“Uncovered”2017, Acrylic and oil on Canvas4ft x 4ft“Veiled”2017, Acrylic and oil on...
The long-awaited Short Forms long list is here! Next week, we will be announcing the shortlist, as chosen by judge Jane Eaton Hamilton. Stay tuned! Room's Winter 2017-18 Short Forms Contest Long ListThe long-awaited long list is here! Next week, we will be announcing...
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist of our 2017 Cover Art Contest! Judge Zainub Verjee, the Executive Director of the Ontario Association of Arts Galleries in Toronto, selected these pieces for special recognition. Please join us in congratulating the artists!...
The long-awaited long lists are here! Next week, we will be announcing the shortlists of each category, as chosen by judges Jónína Kirton and Sigal Samuel, so stay tuned! Room's Annual Poetry & Fiction Contest 2016: The Long ListsThe long-awaited long lists are...
Room Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of our 2017 Creative Nonfiction Contest, as chosen by judge Carmen Aguirre. Room Magazine is pleased to announce the winners of our 2017 Creative Nonfiction Contest as chosen by judge Carmen Aguirre. Room would like to...
The results are in. Congratulations to the three winners of Room's Cover Art Contest 2016! Thank you to our judges, Hangama Amiri, and Jillian Tamaki, for being generous with their time and expertise, and to every artist who shared with us their work. The annual...
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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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