Contests Poetry | June 15 – August 15 Short Forms | September 1 – November 15 Questions or problems with your submission? Need an alternate entry method due to a disability? Contact contests [at] roommagazine [dot] com. Read our Contest FIRST PRIZE: $1,000 + Room’s 2021 Judge: Jenny Heijun Wills Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of “Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.” It won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction prize and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Best First Book Prize. It was a 2019 Globe & Mail Best Book and a 2019 CBC Best in Canadian Non-Fiction Book. She is Chancellor’s Research Chair at the University of Winnipeg where she also teaches in the English Department. She is writing a novel.