Caroline Bergvall
artist. writer. performer.
coach and mentor to writers and artists
Opportunities
News and events
This page is an outward facing page for news about my own movements and ongoing projects and conversations as a writer, artist and coach.
It includes rolling info about writing, residency, arts opportunities for you where I can find them.
Opportunities
An ongoing space for opportunities for writers, artists, and interdisciplinary practitioners, as I come across them. Also links to relevant articles. It starts slow but I hope it’ll grow and can be a helpful and healthy calendar of things from various places and contexts for you.
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Literature and Arts from the Center of the World. Explore this rich and varied journal/magazine with focus on Arab diasporas.
Next themed issue: Mediterraneans - from Spain to Italy, greece, North Africa to Lebanon and beyond. Query by March 20: submission guidelines can be found here.
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Acts and Imaginings of Radical Love from Writing Women, a lively dynamic online group of writers encouraging racialized, nonbinary, cis, and trans feminist conversations and contributions.
call for pitches: contribute to their first print antho. writers, artists, curators that explore the possibilities of love as liberation practice and worldmaking. Check their great call: submission guidelines.
Writing Women began as a love letter to women from the Global South. Submissions are welcome from everywhere anywhere.
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Guest editor: poet Briony Hughes.
“For the seventh issue of permeablebarrier we are seeking submissions: work that plunders archives, animates hidden voices, spotlights buried histories, and gives voice to the inarticulate”.
We are seeking creative work of any kind; send us your poems, stories, essays, collages, videos, artworks, images, sounds, performances, etc etc. If you're interested in contributing a review or interview please contact us with a brief proposal as early as possible.
Submissions will be read by guest editor Briony Hughes and PB curator JD Howse. More info here
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Long lived London-based grassroot and radical venue for music, performance, transmedia works.
Open to UK/EU applicants. Call for Movement and body-based pactices in 2026. Check their Instagram account for submission details at: iklectikartlab
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European Media Art Platform (EMAP) invites artists, artist duos, collectives, and other artistic collaborations working in digital, media, robotic, and bio art to apply for a two-month production residency in 2026.
The EMAP residency programme places a strong emphasis on collaboration: How to apply
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Writers, visual artists and composers as well as scholars for a three-months residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf (Germany) in 2027. Collaborative team welcome. More info
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RivelinCo are inviting applications for a £12,000 outdoor art commission, to take place in public spaces across North Sheffield in Summer 2026. Looking for an artist or collective to create and present an outdoor artwork which engages communities with the theme of rubbish in a thoughtful, creative way. More info and how to apply
Travels/Projects
8-21 March. Residency at Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada. I’ll be putting finishing touches to my manuscript + strategising new projects.
I will be contacting my coaching artists to sort out the time we meet! Calgary is in the MST timezone and a -7hours GMT.
21-24 March. Seeing friends in Montreal. Possibly a reading too. Get in touch by email! See the contact sheet below.
31 March. Paris. Group reading. Launch of 3 exciting new writing and cross-arts fanzines. Hand-to-hand activities are an important networking and spirit raiser at this time. More info when I have this.
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 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!
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Have you got any questions? Wish to share some news or wonder about taking on some coaching time? Drop me a message via the contact form below.
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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.