Call for Submissions: ROOM Magazine

Wade through the pleasures and pains of the flesh with us in the BODIES issue!

We’re seeking writing about touch and isolation, trans and queer embodiment, fat liberation, chronic illness and disability, brutality, sensuality, and other meditations on the bones and muscles you inhabit every day.

What words live in the relationship between your body and other bodies? Between your body and the land beneath it? Explore what it means to feel empowered and grounded in your body—and what it means to feel betrayed by it. Have you ever lost your body to dissociation? Or perhaps to transcendence? The body is a site of self-love, self-hate, and body neutrality alike: accepting loving odes, body horror, and everything in between.

Room publishes original fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art by folks of marginalized genders, including but not limited to women (cisgender and transgender), transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. We encourage writers with overlapping under-represented identities to submit, and we don’t want writers to feel restricted by gender or genre labels, so if you are unsure if your work is a fit for Room, please get in touch. 

Submit your work through Submittable. We do not accept submissions via mail.

• Submit only work that has not been previously published (in print or online).

• We gladly accept simultaneous submissions. If another magazine accepts your work for publication, please advise us and withdraw your piece immediately.

• We do not charge for submissions, with the exception of our annual contests, which also come with a one-year print subscription.

• Fiction and creative non-fiction: up to 3500 words, double spaced.

• Poetry: up to 5 poems, submitted in a single doc file, with each poem starting on a new page.

• Submit all work in 12-point font, Times New Roman preferred.

Payment 

 

We pay issue contributors upon publication. We pay $50 CAD per page (up to a maximum of $200) + 2 copies of the issue in which your work appears + a 1 year print subscription to Room

We pay $250 for cover art + 2 copies of the issue in which your work appears + a 1 year print subscription to Room 

 

We pay reviewers and web contributors a flat rate of $75.

 

Room purchases first North American Serial Rights and digital rights. Copyright reverts back to author after publication

Submission period: November 15, 2023–Jan 5, 2024 

Printed & in circulation: September 2024 

Submit your work here.