Room Magazineās Annual Cover Art ContestĀ 2016 is now open!
All contest submissions will be judged by Jillian Tamaki (co-creator of This One Summer and Skim, and whose works have been recognized by the Ignatz Award, Eisner Award, and Governor General's Award), and Hangama Amiri (who received the honourable mention as part of the 2015 RBC Canadian Painting Competition and is a Fullbright Grant winner).Ā
First prize winner will receive $500 and publication on the cover of 40.2.Ā Second prize winner will receive $50 and publication in the same issue. All winners will be published with an artist statement and interviewed for Room magazineās blog. Winners will have the option to submit additional artwork for the issue, which, if selected for publication, will be compensated for at our usual rates.Ā
Submitted artwork must not have appeared on the cover of another publication, but works that have been published on your own website, on the interior pages of a book or magazine, and/or have been exhibited are eligible!Ā Room Magazine is Canada's oldest literary journal by and about women. Published quarterly by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, also known as the Growing Room Collective. Room showcases art, fiction, poetry, reviews, creative non-fiction, and interviews by writers who identify as women, including trans, two-spirited, and genderqueer people.
Each entry costs $35/$42, which includes a subscription to the magazine, and entitles artists to submit up to three pieces of artwork. Additional entry is only $7.Ā














