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 open for the 2026 Lisa Brannan Prize! This year's Prize will be judged by Sawako Nakayasu.
Please note - any nationaly but only open to US-based poets.
The Poetry Project is proud to offer The Lisa Brannan Prize, a $1,000 prize for emerging poets in honor of a former Poetry Project intern and poet. In addition to the financial prize, the winning poet will have one poem published in the Poetry Project Newsletter.
Submissions close on Monday, May 18, at 11:59pm ET.
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Run by Fence press.
Open to full-length poetrymanuscripts by any person who identifies as a woman and/or female, including trans women as well as people of variable gender who were Assigned Female at Birth. People who identify as men are not eligible for this prize. Prize curated comes with financial. Curated by Fence magazine, NYC.
Scroll down the link to get to guidelines - Please note Submission closes on receipt of 675 submissions.
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Violet Winding Stars Press is a small press with quirky, anachronistic tastes in literature and art. We wish to create a bridge connecting readers with emerging artists and writers who seek to push the boundaries between the visual and literary arts.
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The Elephants is an open-genre, independent press. Operates our of
It publishes heterodox materials as acts of love and solidarity with the communities in which they’re created.
Open for submissions from May 1 through June 30.
Reading book-length manuscripts of poetry, essays, memoirs, short story collections, novels and novellas, translations, children’s literature, as well as any cross-genre, translation, multi-lingual work, etc.
No restrictions on legal status, citizenship, or location. Anyone from anywhere can submit. Notification of results will be announced in the fall.
The Elephants work from Victoria, British Columbia, on the traditional lands of the Lekwungen, Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples; and from Portland, Oregon, on the lands of the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla and other tribes.
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Whatever you draw, and however you draw it, we want to see it.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is open to every drawing practice, with no set theme, no preferred medium, and no hierarchy of approach.
A two-stage entry process: Stage 1 is an online digital submission followed by physical submission of the drawings invited for the Stage 2 review at Trinity Buoy Wharf by the selection panel.
Observational or abstract, small or monumental, the selection panel wants to see the full spectrum of what drawing can be.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 of £15,000 will be announced in September 2026, along with a Student Award of £2,000, and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Boroughs' Award of £1,000.
how to apply Please note small fee to enter works. Scroll all the awy down for the dates.
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Long Poem Magazine is the only magazine dedicated to publishing long poems and sequences. LPM showcases the best of traditional and innovative new writing from established and emerging poets in the international community.
Please note: Only submit during the submission month or your piece will not be read.
Founded in 2008 by Anna Robinson, LPM grew out of a long poem workshop run by Mimi Khalvati. The magazine is published bi-annually with launches at the Barbican Library in London. Eds: Linda Black & Claire Crowther
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The Poetry in Translation Prize is a biennial award for an outstanding poetry collection translated into English. The prize is open to living, published poets from around the world, writing in any language. The winning poet and translator receive an advance of $5,000, to be shared equally between poet and translator, followed by simultaneous publication:
in North America with New Directions, in the UK and Ireland with Fitzcarraldo Editions, and in Australia and New Zealand with Giramondo.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please read these eligibility and entry rules carefully before submitting. Submission of an entry is taken as acceptance of the entry rules. For any queries not covered below, please write to info@fitzcarraldoeditions.com.
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This series is a new imprint publishing poetry written by disabled poets, edited by disabled poets, produced by Nine Mile and underwritten with generous support from Propel and the Poetry Foundation.
Submissions of book-length poetry collections (95 pages or more) by crip/disabled writers at any career stage are welcome for the next volume and award. A 12 point sans serif font is preferred. The Propel Disability Poetry Book Series open call will be open from March 1, 2026 to August 31, 2026, for publication in 2027.
More info & existing list
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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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It is preceded by a small very dedicated workshop. I’m still in Siena as I type this and I genuinely recommend this small scale convivial festival in an extraordinary city. I’ll stay in touch with the organisers and will make sure to post info here for next year’s edition. This year’s edition
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“Fall into Focus” one month this Autumn.
Eligibility: Artists, writers, researchers and designers from all fields of creativity.
What you get: Residency program. Private bedroom. Access to facilities including a traditional Finnish Sauna. Pure Nordic nature. + some funds.
Please note: application is free. notice that there is a residency fee: but you can apply for some support. I thought it was worth flagging anyway.. Check more details here
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Khoj invites applications from artists whose practice engages with mental health and distress, critically examining how pain—physical, psychological, or historical—shapes both the self and society.
Bringing together artists and scholars from India and the UK, this residency seeks to explore varied forms of vitality and distress that shape contemporary life-worlds. This is an on-site six-week residency at Khoj Studios, New Delhi. Working in any medium, the artist is encouraged to expand the discourse on mental health, reimagining the self, its vulnerabilities, vitalities, wounds, and remakings.
Application Deadline: Jun 7, 2026
Grants and awards
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new creative fellowship aimed at a UK-based creative practitioners interested in exploring the British Library’s collections about the Amazon region to reflect on the climate emergency. This fellowship will suit an artist working with visual, performance and/or moving image who is ready to challenge the ethical and creative horizons of their practice and ask the hard questions that climate breakdown demands of us all. The creative fellow will receive a stipend of £7,500 in addition to a production/public engagement budget of up to £3,000
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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
17-31 May. Siena, Italy. Residency at the Siena Art Institute. Also taking part in their International Poetry and Translation Festival Policromia 17-24 May. It is preceded by a small workshop. I’m still there as I type this and I genuinely recommend this small scale convivial festival and its accompanying workshop. I’ll keep in touch with the organisers and will make sure to post info for for next year’s edition.
I’m just back from paying a visit to French poet and artist Liliane Giraudon at her flat in Marseille. Expect a brief video of her showing us a daily journal practice on my YouTube channel very soon.
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!
My writing studio in the snow, March ‘26,
Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada
via Instagram
from the blog
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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.
Blogspot around the poet and environmental activist Susie Campbell’s collaboration with her dog Charlie. She contacted me in 2023 at the start of her project and I was delighted to coach this work in its initial phases.