Fiction (Canadian submissions ONLY)

This form is for "Canadian writers." Please use this form if you live within Canadian territories and provinces, or are a Canadian resident who lives overseas. Since our eligibility for national and local grants depends on a majority of our published content being Canadian, we kindly request that only Canadian writers use this form.

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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.  

Guidelines:

• Before submitting, please read about us to see if your work fits within Room’s mandate.
• Your entry must be original and unpublished (in print or online)
• We accept submissions upto 3500 words. Longer submissions will be rejected automatically.
• Please submit in 12 point font. Times New Roman preferred but not required. 
• We gladly accept simultaneous submissions. If another publication accepts your work for publication, please notify us and withdraw your piece immediately.
• Please do not send a second submission in the same genre until you have heard back from us considering the first one (Note: You may enter our contests and submit a regular submission at the same time so long as the materials are different.)