ROAM Journal is an international literary journal of creative works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, founded in Portugal. 

With the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, ULICES Research Group 4 was forced to postpone the third Representations of Home (RHOME) conference scheduled later that year on the theme of Dislocation. Rhome Creative arose from the decision to launch an on-line creative journal, ROAM, drawing on work resulting from earlier conferences, thus envisioning a creative passage-way through the challenges facing everyone.

ROAM editors have been interested in the themes of the “the dailiness of life,” as outlined by poets Randall Jarrell (1955) and John Burnside, who wrote how, at times of profound reassessment, poetry is a kind of “scavenging” (2018, 101) from our lives lived, in Rilke’s “here and below.”