Drumroll, please! We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2024 Poetry Contest. A huge congratulations to the following three poets whose works were handpicked by esteemed judge, Rafeef Ziadah. Enough waiting: here are the three winners! -------------- FIRST...
“The Air Itself is One Vast Library” is the Third Place Winner of Room’s 2024 Poetry Contest, as judged by Rafeef Ziadah. You can find the full list of winners, and what Rafeef had to say about each winning piece, here. THE AIR ITSELF IS ONE VAST LIBRARY ...on...
We’re just as excited as you are: the 2024 Short Forms Contest Shortlist is here! A big thank you to our esteemed judge, Zalika Reid-Benta, for her time, effort, and careful consideration of submissions. Congrats to these writers! — Room Magazine’s 2024 Short Forms...
We are so excited to announce the longlist for our 2024 Short Forms Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for carefully selecting this longlist, and a big congratulations to these talented writers. — Room Magazine’s 2024 Short Forms Contest Longlist...
It’s finally here! Congrats to the following poets whose works were shortlisted by our judge, Rafeef Ziadah, for our 2024 Poetry Contest! ----- Room Magazine’s 2024 Poetry Contest Shortlist Processions of the Small, by Heather Simeney MacLeod daughters of palestine’s...
Opening Ceremony by Laura Marie Marciano Metatron Press 64 pages $18 Laura Marie Marciano’s second poetic memoir, Opening Ceremony, will hit uncomfortably close to home for many aging Millennials—and Marciano does not hold back. Composed with the same candor and...
Toxemia by Christine McNair Book*hug Press 176 pages $23 Christine McNair’s memoir, Toxemia, is a deeply personal account of her experiences with pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening pregnancy condition marked by high blood pressure, piercing headaches, double vision,...
I Hate Parties by Jes Battis Nightwood Editions 102 pages $20 Jes Battis’s I Hate Parties is a nostalgic poetry collection that chronicles adolescence in the ‘80s and ‘90s—social anxiety and Discmans included—and is peppered with musings from an adult navigating the...
All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H. Invisible Publishing 368 pages $24 “Since the promise of eternal life was no longer on the horizon, I sought, instead, to experience the full expression of my own self-destruction. Instead of aiming for Heaven, I was now hurtling...
Mary and the Rabbit Dream by Noémi Kiss-Deáki Coach House Books 232 pages $25 A good historian understands that history is, at its core, a narrative—one usually written by those in power. Noémi Kiss-Deáki is one such historian. Mary and the Rabbit Dream, Kiss-Deáki’s...
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In the new era of CanCon, as feminists and writers it is our task to reject this Canadian exceptionalism, this too-comfortable back-patting. How can we begin to imagine alternative arts economies, Indigenous economies around art, that start with treaty, that align with BDS? What art, what literature, would such a system free us to create?
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