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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 Room Magazine invites unpublished writing and visual art, including graphic forms, for issue 50.1 on the theme "Belonging," edited by natasha gauthier, Gitanjali D. Sarker, Claire Diamant, and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 on belonging, not belonging, longing to belong, otherness, belonging on the fringe, belonging to the future, the past, the now. We welcome your imaginings, experiences, dreams, and fears of belonging in all their manifestations and intersections: poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction as always, but we're also eager to read your comics, hybrids, graphic essays, and other forms that resist and defy the boundaries of belonging in the art world.
Underrepresented artists—such as women (cis and trans), trans men, Two-Spirit, non-binary, BIPOC, queer, neurodiverse, disabled, low-income, or having lived experience with sex work, addictions, or mental health challenges—are particularly encouraged to submit welcomed to self-identify in their cover letter to have their submissions prioritized. We publish people of all gender identities except for cis men; if you are a cis man, please do not send us your work.
Before submitting, please read our About section to see if your work fits within Room’s mandate, then refer to the Submission Guidelines on how to format your work.
Submissions open June 24, 2026 and will be accepted on a rolling basis until we reach our submissions limit.
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Guidelines
- In our art submissions, we are seeking works of glitches, surrealism, paper collage, photography, mixed-materials, and fabric-based art that supports our desire to knit together all the literary pieces we uncover during our submissions call.
- These are not images to illustrate accompanying writing, but submissions of their own standing.
- Here is a collection of art that has recently appeared in our pages. Please take a look before submitting.
- Submit up to five images (maximum of 1MB sized JPG or PDF) with a short paragraph about the work of art including: the title, size, medium and date. You can also direct us to your work online in your bio.