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Calls for submissions & opportunities: Spring 2024

Calls for submissions & opportunities: Spring 2024

Spring is here, and everything's slowly blooming into life ⎯ we hope your creativity is creeping out of hibernation, too. Here's a list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more!   Calls for submission: Artists Filling Station | Art |...

Featuring Palestinian Voices, part 3

Featuring Palestinian Voices, part 3

As the year opens, we’re thinking of the words of writer and artist Saretta Morgan: “I want to wake every morning into love, where love is the question of how I’m going to help you get free, where that means whatever it needs to mean.” This is an exercise of feminist...

Calls for submissions & opportunities: Winter 2023

Calls for submissions & opportunities: Winter 2023

Winter's keeping us indoors ⎯ so if you find yourself at your writing desk, here's a handy list of opportunities, calls for submissions and contests, grants, and more!   Calls for submission: Artists PROLIT Magazine | Visual art about empire and its end | By Dec...

Featuring Palestinian Voices, Part 2

Featuring Palestinian Voices, Part 2

In this second installment of Palestinian voices to listen to, we’re reflecting on the rich tradition of literature in laying the facts bare and speaking truth to power — especially feminist literature. Notably, core feminist writers Angela Davis and, bell hooks signed the Statement in Solidarity with the Palestinian People of Gaza in 2014, “call[ing] upon all people of conscience to stand with Palestine.”

Normal Women: An Excerpt from Ainslie Hogarth

Normal Women: An Excerpt from Ainslie Hogarth

Room's winter issue 46.4 FEVER DREAM is open for pre-orders until Dec 15th. Gracing this issue is Ainslie Hogarth's commissioned story "Bad Egg," a story about power, obsession, and two characters alone in a mansion during an apocalyptic storm. While you wait for...

Featuring Palestinian Voices, Part 1

Featuring Palestinian Voices, Part 1

As readers, writers, and artists, the impulse to act may feel insignificant at this moment. Our team at Room certainly understands this. Amidst mass catastrophe, we turn to Toni Morrison, who said of living through crisis: “This is precisely the time when artists go...

Resources to educate, take action, and aid Palestine

Resources to educate, take action, and aid Palestine

Room Magazine stands against the occupation of Palestine and condemns the ongoing apartheid and genocide perpetuated by Israel. Israel has illegally occupied Palestine since 1948. Following Hamas’s October 7 attack that tragically killed 1300+ Israelis, the Israeli...

Indigenous Women, Two Spirit, & Indigiqueer Writers to Read

Indigenous Women, Two Spirit, & Indigiqueer Writers to Read

June 21st is Indigenous Peoples day, though, of course, we need to be uplifting and supporting Indigenous peoples all year round. Here's a reading list of some of our favourite Indigenous women, Two Spirit, and Indigiqueer writers. Buy their work (from your favourite...

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