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Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective, Room showcases writing and art by people of all marginalized genders, including cis and trans women, trans men, nonbinary and two spirit people. We believe in publishing emerging writers alongside established authors, and because of this, approximately 90% of the work we publish comes from unsolicited submissions or contest entries.
Vibe
Send us your best but less intimidating
Response Time
Average acceptance rate
Types of Submissions Accepted
Fiction
Max words: 3500
Nonfiction
Max words: 3500
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Art
Max pieces: 5
Send us your most engaging work. These are not images to illustrate accompanying writing, but submissions of their own standing. Submit up to 5 images (maximum of 1MB sized JPG or PDF). Include a short paragraph about the work of art including: the title, size, medium and date, which you can write into the “Bio/Artist Statement” section when you submit. Please note that all art considered for our internal pages will be printed in black and white or greyscale and we ask that you take this into consideration when choosing which artwork to submit to us.
Review
We review fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, published by smaller Canadian publishers, in an effort to suggest intriguing and original new work for our readers. Interested book reviewers who were born or reside in Canada can send their pitches to reviews@roommagazine.com.
Fiction
Max words: 3500
Nonfiction
Max words: 3500
Poetry
Max pieces: 5
Art
Max pieces: 5
Send us your most engaging work. These are not images to illustrate accompanying writing, but submissions of their own standing. Submit up to 5 images (maximum of 1MB sized JPG or PDF). Include a short paragraph about the work of art including: the title, size, medium and date, which you can write into the “Bio/Artist Statement” section when you submit. Please note that all art considered for our internal pages will be printed in black and white or greyscale and we ask that you take this into consideration when choosing which artwork to submit to us.
Need to know for submitting
Read carefully, it will save from dead rats in the mailbox
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Details
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How to submit 🏗️
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Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️
04
Awards
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Demographics & Eligibility06
Formatting requirements 🏗️
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Rights for published work 🏗️
Magazine
Founded in 1975 | Canada
Masthead
We currently list only main editors, more will be added later! If you are an editor, you can edit your masthead in our admin panel :)
Shristi Uprety
Managing Editor
Nara Monteiro
Publisher
Natalie Wee
Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Micah Killjoy
Book Reviews Editor
Ruchika Gothoskar
Contest Coordinator
Chill Stats (note: this is not exactly accurate...)
Total tracked
67
Average acceptance rate
0% (so far)
Average response time
66 days
Average acceptance/rejection time
-/66 days
Fastest response time
22 days
Slowest response time
130 days
Weird response times we excluded from calculations: 217 days