2026 Poetry Contest Longlist

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We are so thrilled to announce the longlist for our 2026 Poetry Contest! A big thank you to our Room collective members for selecting our longlist. These submissions will now be reviewed by 2026’s Poetry Contest judge, Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. A big congratulations to these talented writers! ⎯ Room Magazine’s 2026 Poetry Contest Longlist Dirt, […]

“Surviving in Captivity” by Premee Moh...

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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. Surviving in Captivity by Premee Mohamed “At night the sick sleep in a dormitory in the sanctuary, hoping to be visited […]

“Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection #92...

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What if memory was a site of negotiation? What would you preserve, rewrite, re-remember? Today, we’re sitting with “Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection #924-F” by Abeer Dagher Esber, from our current issue Room 49.2 Science. Archive Failure: Ethics Board Rejection #924-F by Abeer Dagher Esber   Residency Application to the Institute of Memory Placement  Applicant: […]

A conversation with and reading list by Room 49.3 ...

As nationalist sentiment rises alongside a tide of fascism, we at Room have opened our call for submissions for Room 49.3 No Canada, inviting writing and art that presents an alternative lens to sentimental patriotism, interrogates our complicities in imperial violence, draws on decolonial practices and theories, and converses with dissenting voices past and present. […]

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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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