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In times of emerging and ongoing crisis, literature is a crucial blueprint for the future and the necessary work that lies ahead. This season, gift your loved ones feminist literature and learning for 2024 and beyond ❤️‍🔥 roommagazine.com/shop-page/

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. roommagazine.com/shop-page/

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. roommagazine.com/whats-new/call…

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: roommagazine.com/whats-new/inte…

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: roommagazine.com/reading-room/c…

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. roommagazine.com/whats-new/prid…

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. roommagazine.com/whats-new/nati…

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! room.submittable.com/submit

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. roommagazine.com/whats-new/inte…

Writers and artists: stay juicy this summer with this curated call for submissions! roommagazine.com/whats-new/call…

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. roommagazine.com/whats-new/inte…

We at Room Magazine, which publishes from a city whose history and present have been shaped by Asian activists, artists, working people, and movements, are looking back on this past Asian Heritage Month with gratitude and determination: roommagazine.com/whats-new/feat…

We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for our 2026 Poetry Contest, judged by the fantastic Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch! roommagazine.com/whats-new/cont…

Are you passionate about intersectional feminism, literary events, and magazine publishing? We're looking for our Contests & Events Intern ⎯ and yes, we pay! roommagazine.com/about/hiring-c…

We are so thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2026 Poetry Contest, judged by the fantastic Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch! roommagazine.com/reading-room/c…

In a world where it’s possible to augment remembering and memory-making, where does that leave our relationships? Today, we’re sitting with “Surviving in Captivity” by Premee Mohamed, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science. roommagazine.com/reading-room/f…

How can science help us look differently? Journey with writing and art about wonder, experimentation, and new and ancestral knowledge in ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE: roommagazine.com/product/scienc…

What if memory was a site of negotiation? Today, we’re sitting with a brilliant piece by @esber_abee71317, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science, that asks: what would you preserve, rewrite, re-remember? roommagazine.com/reading-room/a…

Usher in the spring season this May 6 (Wed) with a Room evening double online launch! Join us for a night of readings that invite us to reimagine better worlds as we raise funds for Lebanon: events.humanitix.com/spring-double-…

As nationalist sentiment rises alongside a tide of fascism, Room has opened our call for submissions for Room 49.3 No Canada. Our editors talk about this issue, their hopes for the future, and more: roommagazine.com/whats-new/feat…

Calling all writers: we want you! Submit to our 2026 Non-Fiction Contest, judged by the fantastic @razorfemme for a chance to win $1000 and publication! room.submittable.com/submit