Caroline Bergvall
artist. writer. performer.
coach and mentor to writers and artists
Opportunities
News and events
You will find below some opportunities to support the making and/or circulation of your projects and ideas. I hope this will be helpful to you. An ongoing space for opportunities for writers, artists, and interdisciplinary practitioners, as I come across them.
Also, on this page, some of my own news movements, travels, showings of ongoing projects. Perhaps we will get to meet in real life at some point!
Opportunities
Submissions
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Submissions are open for the winter issue. They will close on 30th October.
aswirl publishes poems with 10 lines or fewer in which every letter counts. Please submit no more than four. Since aswirl is quarterly, seasonal poems are encouraged but not always prioritised.
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Folly Eros launches a second volume on desire and intimacy, through the lense of the queer community.
Edited by London based George Parker, this volume is looking for writing that explores everything from tender trysts to latexed fists and queer romance-themed works.
This anthology craves bold, unapologetic writing across the queer spectrum. Show some literary leg. Serve an erotic vignette. Bend gender and genre and grind your way to queer resistance. Give us desiring dykes, playful Polari, cant cunts, subversive sluts. Show us how you fuck and love and cherish each other in spite of the cis-hetero norm.
Erotica is welcomed but George is also keen to see a variety of work focused on all aspects of the queer romantic and sensual, particularly from those living in the intersection of global majority, trans, disabled, and otherwise marginalised groups. George is especially excited for work related to the hanky code, trans joy, polyamory, ace relationships, disability, and gender non-conforming expression.
Submission fee: $10
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Submit a previously unpublished, full or chapbook-length manuscript. to the Helena Whitehill Award
We are seeking manuscripts of poetry and creative nonfiction, including memoirs, essays, and hybrid works!
Selected manuscripts will receive publication by Tupelo Press, a $1,000 advance, a book launch, and national distribution with energetic publicity and promotion.
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SPAM’s online critical-creative platform is open for a limited period only from 5th October - 5th December for reviews, essays, interviews, SPAM cuts, and Archive Fever pieces. Email pitches, submissions, questions to spamzine.editors@gmail.com. There are no strict word counts, other than for SPAM Cuts.
Get pitches in early for recent poetry/book titles! More info on what we're looking for here!
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The Iowa Review looks for the best poetry, fiction, and nonfiction being written today and is often pleased to introduce new writers.
The Iowa Review Awards
The Iowa Review Awards are awarded annually in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Entries are accepted each January.
Winners receive $1,500; first runners-up receive $750. Winners and runners-up are published in each December issue. The judges for 2026 are
Julian Talamantez Brolaski (poetry), Tom Lin (fiction), and Tisa Bryant (nonfiction).
Contest Rules
Submit up to 25 pages of prose (double-spaced) or 10 pages of poetry (one poem or several, but no more than one poem per page). Work must be previously unpublished. Simultaneous submissions are fine assuming you inform us of acceptance elsewhere.
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THE JUDGE’S PRIZE – poems of 11 to 50 lines
THE EDITORS’ PRIZE – poems of up to 10 lines
This year the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines will be judged by Fiona Benson, winner of the 2026 Laurel Prize for her most recent collection Midden Witch. The Editors’ Prize is judged by a panel of Magma Editors and is for poems of up to 10 lines.
First prize for the Judge’s and Editors’ Prize is £1000, second prize £500 and third prize £250.
The three prize-winning poems from each category will be published in Magma Issue 98 in Summer 2027 and there will also be five special mentions for each of the Judge’s Prize and Editors’ Prize categories. All winning and commended poems will be published online on the Magma website. Winning and commended poets will be invited to read their poems at a Magma Competition event in Spring 2027.
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Poetries in English Magazine is anti-conformity. We publish the best, most intriguing, most well-crafted literature and art today, regardless of form or content.
We are a paying market. We pay a small honorarium to each contributor for general submissions.
The inaugural Louise Glück Prize for Best Poem or Prose is now open. The winner will receive a $1,000 cash award and publication in Poetries in English Magazine. Non-winning entries will also be considered for regular publication.
What distinguishes Poetries in English from other prestigious literary journals is our iconoclastic approach to art and literatures in English. We are proud to be one of the most daring literary magazines in publishing today. Each issue is unafraid, bold, but cerebral.
Their submission guidelines are a bit more precise with clear number of pieces/pages.
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Ludd Gang is a bi-monthly magazine published to raise funds for the Poets Hardship Fund. They are currently open for submissions. If you’d like to submit work to the magazine, send a message to poetshardshipfunduk@gmail.com.
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Iconic SF art and poetry mag. here’s what they say: Send proposals or inquires to tripwirejournal@gmail.com before submitting work.
Some familiarity with the journal is appreciated.
Looking for: essays (on contemporary writing, performance, and art, experiments in criticism, poetics statements and investigations, interviews, translations, black and white art work, long-form review essays (that consider several books or authors linked around central themes or questions), performance scores, etc. Submissions do not need to be related to issue themes – send proposals & queries!
Not looking for: unsolicited poetry, fiction, or plays; conventional academic papers or dissertation chapters; “straight” translations of canonized authors or texts; work primarily designed to be presented online, color visual work.
Residencies
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2 Fellowships themese based.
The Fellowship Programme supports two research Fellows a year to work with a Tate host team. The Fellowship is envisaged as a mutually beneficial cultural and professional exchange. It allows the Fellows, who are established practitioners, to bring their expertise of working in other regions to Tate, whilst also giving them the opportunity to learn from the cultural sector in the United Kingdom.
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Visual artists, composers, filmmakers, and literary artists are welcome to apply for these 12 and 10 week residencies in 2028.
There is an application fee of $30.00 USD.
Grants and awards
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The Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, established in 2025 in partnership with Graywolf Press, awards $10,000 and publication to an unpublished first or second poetry collection by a United States poet 40 or older.
Eligibility Guidelines:
Poets must have published no more than one full-length poetry collection. This is a prize for either a first or second book. Chapbooks and self-published books do not count toward this requirement.
Poets must be 40 years of age or older by December 31, 2026.
Poets must be residing in or citizens of the United States.
Current employees, trustees, and immediate family members of the Poetry Foundation and Graywolf Press are not eligible to submit a manuscript for this prize.
Check for submission prcoess. Opens in November:
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Up to £2K to support curators’ research projects by covering travel and other practical costs.These grants provide funding for travel and other practical costs, to help curators undertake collections and exhibition research projects in the UK or internationally.
Rolling basiss for Small Grants.
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The White Pube Creatives Grant is a one-off £500 grant to be given out to a different working class creative practitioner based in the UK once every month. This grant has been set up to support creatives of all ages who are early in their careers and would benefit from this no-strings attached financial support to help them in whatever they like.
Travels/Projects/Events
I’m currently at the Summer Writing Program of Naropa, Boulder Colorado. It runs for 3 weeks in June. I’m part of the 3rd week this year starting on Monday 15-22 June. Always fantastic and inspiring to be invited here as part of their faculty. A great range of poets and a combination of workshops, readings, panel discussions and presentations. This year is extra special as it marks the centenary of one of its founders: Allen Ginsberg. Poet Anne Waldman who still fronts it and is a powerful presence was also at the root of the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics. This year’s full program here
Language Station: My latest recorded conversation/workshop with speakers of various languages, some under threat, took place at Counterpoints Arts, a longtime partner of my projects and a London-based organisation dedicated to supporting arts and social justice working with refugees and asylum seekers in the UK. Recorded excerpts from the event to follow!
Policromia festival of Poetry and Translation, Siena.
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Caroline Bergvall is an award-winning poet and sound artist working internationally across various artforms and languages.
Since 2020 has been coaching and mentoring writers and artists from various fields, practices, and cultural backgrounds.