Poetry (US and International)
This form is for international writers. If you are a "Canadian" writer (if you reside within Canada or have Canadian citizenship but live abroad, please submit to our Canadian writers' submissions form)
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Open call for submissions for Room 50.2, edited by Rachel Thompson, Hamdah Shabbir, Nicole Opong-Agyare, and Selin Berktas.
Send us your best work on any theme that takes risks, refuses, and questions the status quo.
We’re drawn to writing about societal constructs, the various arms of fascism, and everything strange in between, including work that examines prioritizing human-made writing and art in this era of AI. We love essays that squint and question; necessary short stories that reflect the times, yet resist easy lessons; and poems that give us wings to fly towards something greater.
We also seek art of different mediums, layered work, altered photographs, comix, images that bend the familiar or are hard to look away from—surprise us!
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.
Submissions open September 13, 2026 and will be accepted on a rolling basis until we reach our submissions limit.
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Guidelines:
- Your entry must be original and unpublished (in print or online)
- We accept upto 5 poems, submitted in a single file. Please start each poem on a new page.
- We gladly accept simultaneous submissions. If another publication accepts your work for publication, please notify us using Submittable's 'message' function (preferred) or at submissions@roommagazine.com.
- 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.)