Call for Submissions: Room 50.1 Belonging

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What does it mean to belong, whether it’s to a place, a time, a community, a person, or something else entirely? Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and visual art, including graphic forms, for issue 50.1 on the theme “Belonging,” edited by natasha gauthier, Gitanjali D. Sarker, Claire Diamant, and Diana Samu-Visser. Send us your takes […]

Interview with Room’s 2026 Creative Non-Fiction Co...

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Kai Cheng Thom is above all a storyteller whose distinctive, mythopoetic voice channels something deep, ancient, and wise, all while staying grounded in our present moment and the specificities of her life. We turn to Thom’s writing when everything, including our relationships and spaces, falls apart. Cheekily at times, she does not give us definite […]

Poetry Contest 2026: The Winners

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It’s time! Here are the winners of the 2026 Poetry Contest, as chosen by our fantastic judge, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. Congratulations to these writers on their big success for their works! FIRST PLACE: For Doechii, by Isha Camara Isha Camara is a Gambian-American poet and visual artist from South Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her undergraduate […]

Pride Month Statement and Resource List 2026

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In our Pride Month Statement for 2025, we at Room Magazine emphasized 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. We especially must defy pinkwashing in light of […]

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Cover image for Room Magazine Issue 49.2, Science. Art by Candace Cosentino of an old-fashioned computer monitor with a bounty of dandelions growing from it.

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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