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"Room is Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, and has published fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, interviews, and book reviews for forty years."
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Open for submissions

Theme

Utopia

Deadline

June 30, 2023

Table of contents

Introduction

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
2 weeks-6 months / 66 days
Average acceptance rate
0%

Types of Submissions Accepted

5 genres

A general comment from the editor [coming soon]

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Fiction

Max words: 3500

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3500

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Poetry

Max pieces: 5

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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.

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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.

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Fiction

Max words: 3500

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Nonfiction

Max words: 3500

poetry genre icon

Poetry

Max pieces: 5

art genre icon

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

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    Details

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    How to submit 🏗️

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    Cover Letter and Bio 🏗️

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    Awards

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    Demographics & Eligibility

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    Formatting requirements 🏗️

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    Rights for published work 🏗️

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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