Room magazine is seeking a new publisher! The publisher is responsible for overseeing Room’s finances, grant writing, circulation, distribution, sales, and event programming. Alongside the managing editor, the publisher makes major operational decisions and co-leads...
For National Poetry Month, we're publishing Gitanjali Bal's interview with Poetry Decoded from our latest issue, Room 47.2: Seedpod. A passion project co-created by friends and local multidisciplinary artists, Bisharo Farah, Amana Park and Kasra Kooshafar, Poetry...
This National Poetry Month, we continue to honour and stand alongside the Palestinian people, who resist the ongoing colonization of their lands, apartheid, and genocide perpetuated by Israel. Literature and art are cultural testimonies, and Palestinian writing...
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!...
Two friends—in verse and in life—sit down to chat about the release of Ellen Chang-Richardson’s much anticipated collection Blood Belies out now with Wolsak & Wynn. ~ Margo LaPierre: Congratulations on the brand-new release of Blood Belies! How was your...
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...
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...
Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and art on any theme for our open issue 47.4, edited by Shristi Uprety, Rose Morris, Melissa Barrientos, and Kailee Wakeman.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...
Photo credit: Alice Meikle Sarah Bernstein is a Canadian writer who was born in Montreal and currently lives in Scotland. She has published three books, including a collection of prose poems titled Now Comes the Lightning (2015) and two novels, The Coming Bad Days...
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 |...
ROOM 48.1 WITS END
In times of crisis, we laugh to offer tenderness, to ward off despair— so we can be brave. Gather round ROOM 48.1 WITS END and let humour be a mirror held up to the state of the world as we continue to resist.
ROOM 47.4 FULL CIRCLE
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.
Seeking members who love literature, events, merchandise, and supporting marginalized creators.
Wits End | 48.1
$10.00 – $20.00
Full Circle | 47.4
$15.00 – $25.00
Bodies | 47.3
$15.00 – $25.00
Seedpod | 47.2
$12.00 – $25.00
Utopia | 47.1
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Sponsor a Writer
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Sponsor a Poet
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Fever Dream | 46.4
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