Friday, April 3rd 2026

Room Magazine: No Canada

This Canadian magazine only accepts submissions from women (cis and trans), trans men, Two-Spirit and non-binary writers. “For Room 49.3 “No Canada,” we are looking for poetry, prose, and art that offers a critical or alternate lens in this time of sentimental patriotism. For local stories, national anxieties, mixed feelings, and alienated identities. For writing and thinking in conversation with dissenting voices past and present: #IdleNoMore, Gidimt'en Checkpoint, Black Lives Matter, #StopTheStack, No Arms in the Arts, #CanLit Responds, the Postal Workers' strike. … In creative non-fiction, we hope to read researched essays that look outward and inward. Across genres, we would be very interested in multilingual and/or fragmented forms that refuse the colonial primacy of English-language work in Canadian literary journals. 
International writers and artists: we welcome writing and art about borders, national identity, liberalism, liberation, and related struggles—from the psychological to the revolutionary—and we are especially keen on transnational thinking and Third World perspectives. 
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. We publish everyone but cis men; if you are a cis man, please do not submit.”
They have different submission categories for Canadian and international writers on their Submittable page. They pay CAD50 per page up to CAD200 for prose up to 3,500 words. They opened for submissions on 11th March, and will close by category when filled. Details here and here.

Monday, December 13th 2021

Room Magazine wants submissions on ‘Audacity’ theme

Room Magazine publishes writing by marginalized genders, including women, both cisgender and transgender, transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people; they are accepting submissions of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and art for their Audacity-themed issue. “We want you to show us what “Audacity” means to you. Maybe it stirs up some negative emotions, like the way a politician has the audacity to inflict harm, or a man has the audacity to explain kickboxing to the woman about to teach the class. But the writing we’re most interested in explores transformative audaciousness: the unapologetic embracing of the self, warts and all. … However you interpret our theme, the one aspect these submissions should have in common is bravery. This shouldn’t be easy, or comfortable; change never is.”
Length: Up to 3,500 words
Pay: CAD50/page up to CAD200
Details here

 

Deadline: January 31st, 2022

Saturday, January 2nd 2021

Room Magazine wants submissions for Indigenous Brilliance issue

This is an international feminist magazine publishing work from marginalized genders, including women, trans men, Two Spirit, and non binary creatives. They publish fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and art. They’re reading for the Indigenous Brilliance issue. They have extensive guidelines, including, “This issue is to hold space for Indigenous writers to tell their stories. Indigenous is used to refer broadly to peoples of long settlement and connection to specific lands who have been adversely affected by incursions by industrial economies, displacement, and settlement of their traditional territories by others. We acknowledge this is not limited to Turtle Island and the America's, and welcome Indigenous experiences from around the globe, who share histories of European colonialism, genocide, enslavement, subjugation, resistance, sovereignty and liberation.”
Length: Up to 3,500 words for fiction and non-fiction; up to five poems
Pay: Up to CAD150
Details here and here.

Deadline: 31 January 2021

Friday, December 18th 2020

Room Magazine wants submissions for Indigenous Brilliance issue

This is an international feminist magazine publishing work from marginalized genders, including women, trans men, Two Spirit, and non binary creatives. Apart from creative non-fiction (up to 3,000 words), they also publish fiction, poetry, and art. They’re reading for the Indigenous Brilliance issue. They have extensive guidelines, including, “This issue is to hold space for Indigenous writers to tell their stories. Indigenous is used to refer broadly to peoples of long settlement and connection to specific lands who have been adversely affected by incursions by industrial economies, displacement, and settlement of their traditional territories by others. We acknowledge this is not limited to Turtle Island and the America's, and welcome Indigenous experiences from around the globe, who share histories of European colonialism, genocide, enslavement, subjugation, resistance, sovereignty and liberation.” Pay is CAD50/page, up to CAD200. The deadline is 31 January 2021. Details here.

Deadline: 31 January 2021

Saturday, July 4th 2020

Room Magazine is Looking for Pitches

Room Magazine is a Canadian feminist literary journal. They publish quarterly. Their web content coordinator is seeking pitches for 800 to 1,200 word-articles for their blog. They are “open to any style, including, but not limited to interviews, essays, creative work, or a mix of elements.” They especially encourage pitches from “underrepresented writers including but not limited to women and nonbinary writers who are Black, Indigenous, people of colour, queer and/or disabled.” They will pay $75 per piece. Send proposals to w.isa368@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet and this page.

Deadline: July 14th, 2020