Photos/Art
Room Magazine invites your visual/photographic work for our Science issue 49.1, edited by Chimedum Ohaegbu, Kailee Wakeman, Katie Stobbart, and Anna Lee-Popham.
Science is both a lexicon for what we know and a field of exploration for what we don’t know yet. In Room Magazine’s Science, as in science, we will savour curiosity, question orthodoxy, dig into hidden histories and understudied areas, and titrate, examine, hypothesize, collaborate, queer, and dream our way to wilder futures. How do we come about and decide what is knowledge? What knowledge is accessible, credible/sanctioned, or forbidden? What pseudo-sciences shaped society in the past, and are doing so now? What does it mean to have nonhuman teachers during the Anthropocene? Editors Chimedum Ohaegbu, Kailee Wakeman, Katie Stobbart, and Anna Lee-Popham seek your explorations of these questions, and invite as many other branching queries as you can imagine, for this issue.
Send us your women-in-STEM screeds, your poems shaped as research paper abstracts or Erlenmeyer flasks, your anatomical and botanical drawings that are just a little strange. Illustrate the inherent beauty of your favourite math formulae, or muse upon cognitive biases discussed by sociologists and psychologists. If you’ve ever dwelt on the history and modern-day evolution of medical racism, have a passion for Indigenous fire management systems, gesticulate when talking about neurolinguistics, or generally tend to think in -ologies, Room Magazine 49.1 Science is looking for you.
Underrepresented writers—including but not exclusive to women (cis and trans), trans men, Two-Spirit and non-binary writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of colour, queer, and/or disabled—are particularly encouraged to submit.
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. We are an international feminist magazine, and encourage writing and art submitted from all over the world.
Submissions open May 19, 2025 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.