Each issue of Room features 4-8 pages of interior art. We accept illustrations, collages, mixed media, digital art, fine art, photography, graphic arts, and more, just not AI art. We publish artists from marginalized genders including but not limited to women (cisgender and transgender),  transgender men, Two-Spirit and nonbinary people. Artists from intersecting identities are particularly encouraged to submit.

We print in black and white or greyscale, at a minimum of 300 dpi+. Here is a collection of art that has recently appeared in our pages. Please take a look before submitting.

Room does not commission new work; we pay for the right to reprint existing work with your permission. We pay $50/page+ 2 copies of the issue in which your work appears + a 1 year print subscription to Room.

Submission Periods

Unsolicited submissions to Room are free, and make up over 90% of our published submissions. We open for submissions four times a year.

48.4, February 2025: OPEN as of February 28, 2025

49.1, May 2025: closed

49.2, August 2025: closed

49.3, November 2025: closed

Submissions are open to both Canadian and international writers for periods of approximately 4-6 weeks, depending on when the submissions limits for any given genre are reached. Once the cap has been hit, our submissions close even if it's before our submission deadline, and will not open again until the following submission period.