It's finally here! We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2023 Poetry Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for the creation of this longlist, and a big congratulations to these talented poets. --- Room Magazine’s 2023 Poetry Contest...
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...
This year’s Short Forms Contest judge is the writer, activist, and award-winning author, Tsering Yangzom Lama. Her debut novel, We Measure the Earth with our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award as well as the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. It...
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...
Room 46.3 editor, Rachel Thompson, has been taking writers behind the scenes of creating this ghostly issue all month on the Write, Publish, and Shine Podcast. Listen here…
Wade through the pleasures and pains of the flesh with us in the BODIES issue! Seeking writing and visual art about touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the...
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...
“Making Moccasins” is the Third Place Winner for Room’s 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest. Of this piece, judge Tajja Isen writes: This is a blazing, deeply felt essay about pregnancy, miscarriage, and family-making. As well as being a moving act of remembrance, the...
Drumroll, please! Here are the three winners of our 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest, as chosen by judge Tajja Isen. A big congratulations to these three writers! --- FIRST PLACE: our brothers started dying, by Natalie Appleton Natalie Appleton is a graduate of the...
The Creative Non-Fiction Shortlist has arrived! A big congratulations to the five writers whose submissions have been shortlisted by our esteemed judge, Tajja Isen! — Room Magazine 2023 Creative Non-Fiction Contest: The Shortlist The Train, by Murgatroyd Monaghan Holy...
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.
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