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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...

Call for Submissions: Issue 46.4

Call for Submissions: Issue 46.4

Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and art on any theme for our open issue 46.4, edited by Shristi Uprety, Ruchika Gothoskar and Tara Preissl. Before submitting, please read our About section to see if your work fits within Room’s mandate, then refer to...

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...

Review of Wonder World by K.R. Byggdin

Review of Wonder World by K.R. Byggdin

Wonder World By K.R. Byggdin Enfield & Wizenty 183 pages, $21.95 Isaac Funk is a character many of us know. This is not to say he’s generic—he’s anything but—but he feels familiar, at least within certain communities or subcultures. We find Funk, a wildly dressed...

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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

I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.

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ROOM 49.1 No Future for Who?

In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.

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