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Short Forms Contest 2023: The Winners

Short Forms Contest 2023: The Winners

We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2023 Short Forms Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three authors whose brief and beautiful works were handpicked by esteemed judge, Tsering Yangzom Lama. We won’t keep you waiting any longer: here they are!...

Short Forms Contest 2023: The Longlist

Short Forms Contest 2023: The Longlist

It’s finally here! We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2023 Short Forms Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for carefully selecting this longlist, and a big congratulations to these talented poets. --- Room Magazine’s 2023 Short...

Short Forms Contest 2023: The Longlist

Short Forms Contest 2023: The Shortlist

We are so excited to announce the 2023 Short Forms Contest shortlist! Many thanks, again, to all those who entered, and to our wonderful judge, Tsering Yangzom Lama, for reviewing the longlisted works with such careful consideration. A big congratulations to these six...

Call for Submissions: Issue 47.4

Call for Submissions: Issue 47.4

Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and art on any theme for our open issue 47.4, edited by Shristi Uprety, Rose Morris, Melissa Barrientos, and Kailee Wakeman. Underrepresented writers—including but not exclusive to women (cis and trans), trans men, Two Spirit...

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 |...

Love Poems for the Revolution: Building toward Utopia

Love Poems for the Revolution: Building toward Utopia

Room and Augur put together our Utopia issue in a world where dystopia is always happening somewhere, as Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki wrote for Uncanny in 2022. Rewriting the future is critical work. It also happens in the living rooms, public buses, bomb shelters,...

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...

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Step back with Room into the past, to parents, to childhood homes, and to people once known and loved; dig into themes of grief and healing; and ultimately explore what it means to come full circle in literature.

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