Room Magazine

Literature, Art, and Feminism Since 1975. A print journal publishing writers and artists who identify as women (cis/trans), trans men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary.

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Room is urgently fundraising to continue running our organization. Room is one of the most integrally diverse spaces in “Canadian” publishing today, and we need your help to keep it that way.

Please check out our galabid fundraiser:

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Writers, we want you!

Submit to our 2026 Short Forms Contest, judged by the fantastic Jaye Simpson, and stand a chance at winning $1000 and publication!

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On this Orange Shirt Day and National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Room reaffirms our solidarity with the sovereignty of all Indigenous peoples worldwide and in so-called Canada.

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Drumroll please! Congrats to our Room Magazine’s 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest Longlist, selected by @razorfemme!

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Artists and writers, we want you! (Yes, we pay!)

Send us your best work on any theme that takes risks, refuses, and questions the status quo. We love work that reflect the times, yet resist easy lessons: surprise us.

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Just as Room Magazine is named after Virginia Wolf’s extended essay A Room of One’s Own, our tote bag draws on a poem by June Jordan and a quote from Anne Carson. May these quotes (and the tote) carry all you need as you journey toward the future.

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How can we be artists in community? Our Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu interviews Brianna Bernard, who works as a technician for Neworld Theatre and Unbound Reading Series.

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Writers, we want you! Submit to our 2026 Fiction Contest now, judged by the incredible @teresempierre, for a chance at $1000 and publication!

https://t.co/q8RwQiJnfj

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This Emancipation Day, August 1, Room Magazine decries how freedom is incomplete and celebrate what freedom, seized and safeguarded by the oppressed, has made flourish.

Celebrate, defend, & materially support Black people year-round:

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Managing Editor Chimedum Ohaegbu interviews Unbound Reading Series founder Hope Lauterbach on Unbound’s most memorable moments, six years since its inception, the notion of rest in cultural work, and dreams for the collective’s future.

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Stay juicy this summer with the best of feminist literature, now more affordable than ever!

Check out our summer sale ⎯ and subscribe to our Patreon for writing prompts, resources, and more.

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Writers and artists: we want you! (Yes, we pay.)

Send us your takes on belonging, not belonging, longing to belong, otherness, belonging on the fringe, belonging to the future, the past, the now.

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Need inspiration for our 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Contest?

Room caught up with our fantastic judge Kai Cheng Thom to chat about genre, the vulnerability and craft of truth-telling, and what stories can do: https://t.co/TVyALRLD0e

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It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2026 Poetry Contest, chosen by our fantastic judge, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch!

🏆 First Place: Isha Camara
🏆 Second Place: Sandra Kasturi
🏆 Third Place: Meryem Yildiz

Read about our winners and their pieces:
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We at Room Magazine continue to insist on the importance of not allowing corporate interests define Pride, but rather the people to whom Pride belongs: the queer Black and brown people who bleed for it, riot for it, and care for their communities.

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This National Indigenous History Month, we remember MMIWG2S, uplift voices of water-protectors, reflect upon the importance of Indigenous histories, futurism, and art-making, recommit to materially supporting the Indigenous peoples in our communities.

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Good news, writers! We've extended our deadline for our 2026 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by the fantastic @razorfemme!

Submit by June 30 for a chance to win $1000 and publication!

https://t.co/q8RwQiJnfj

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Writer and editor Rebecca Mangra interviews Leila Chatti about her brilliant new collection, Wildness Before Something Sublime. Together, they discuss inner mythologies, moments of recognition, “What would Anne Carson do?”, and inspirations.

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Writers and artists: stay juicy this summer with this curated call for submissions!

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What is a poem anyway?

Room caught up with El Bechelany-Lynch after the close of our 2026 Poetry Contest to talk about what it was like to judge, the risks poets took in their submissions, and what's next for their own work.

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