Calls for submissions: Summer 2026

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Writers and artists: stay juicy this summer with this curated call for submissions!   Calls for submission: Artists PRISM International | Art *for Revelry issue | By June 11  Geist | Art and Photography | By June 16 Strange Horizons | Original art | Ongoing  SAD Magazine | Illustration and Photography * by artists who […]

Interview with Room’s 2026 Poetry Contest ju...

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Photo credit: Hamza Abouelouafaa Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is one of the rare writers who fluently creates across genres and identities. knot body (Metatron Press, 2020), their debut collection, artfully weaves poetry, essay, and letters throughout to confront how chronic pain, fatphobia, and trans identity shape what it means to live in a body the […]

Asian Heritage Month Statement + Reading List 

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Asian Heritage Month Statement + Reading List  We at Room Magazine, which publishes from a city whose history and present have been shaped by Asian activists, artists, working people, grandmothers, scientists, and movements, are looking back on this past Asian Heritage Month with gratitude and determination.  While capitalistic interests attempt to reduce Asian heritages to […]

2026 Poetry Contest Shortlist

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We are so thrilled to announce the shortlist for our 2026 Poetry Contest, selected by 2026’s Poetry Contest judge, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. A big congratulations to these talented writers! ⎯ Room Magazine’s 2026 Poetry Contest Shortlist Dirt, by Sandra Kasturi Time To Love, by Meryem Yildiz For Doechii, by Isha Camara My Lesbian Novel Epilogue, […]

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ROOM 49.2 SCIENCE

I hope this issue makes you curious and furious, leads to 2 a.m. Wikipedia rabbit holes, fulfills urges to seek out knowledge-keepers. Quickly or slowly, dive in: -ologies of all varieties await you.

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In Room Magazine 49.1 No Future for Who?, we are really asking. We are coming in hot. We are causing a scene. We are being unreasonable. We are not fucking around. We are not taking “no” for an answer. “No” is the only word we still know. For who? For who? No.

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