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21 Jan 2026 Call for lecture proposals - The Last Tuesday Society

Calling all authors, experts, scholars and enthusiasts! The Last Tuesday Society hosts a weekly Monday night series of weird and wonderful talks. Interested in giving a lecture in our most curious venue?

Must be available to host the lecture at our location in London.

Email for submission attached in the Instagram post.

26 Jan 2026 Crypt Gallery (St Pancras, London) Residency 2026

Residency for 9 - 20 Feb 2026

The Crypt Gallery Residency is a chance to do research, use the space as a resource, test out work, write, use as a creative space.

26 Jan 2026 New Architecture Writers 2026 cohort

Deadline: 10am GMT, 26 Jan 2026

31 Jan 2026 Curriers’ Essay Prize - The London Journal

Prize: £1000

https://www.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize

06 Feb 2026 Era Journal Issue 22

UCL student run magazine, should be of interest to current students.

07 Feb 2026 Mayflies - Oral history research collective meeting at the MayDay Rooms, London

Mayflies is a new, peer-to-peer oral history research collective, who will meet at the MayDay Rooms, London. The group is for 18-30 year olds who can commit to twice-monthly meetings on Tuesday - Thursday nights, 6-8pm.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mkZBUg-zBPRGFd4W_NJK8zLyxqEwH3lZ698eXPV7LtY

15 Feb 2026 OffBeat Art Club - Art/Film

folk art, outsider art, folk-adjacent work, landscape, portraiture, sculpture, craft to performance

23 Feb 2026 The London Library Emerging Writers Programme 2026/27

02 Mar 2026 Call for proposals: Residencies and workshops at The Writers’ Room, Wild Pansy Press

Call PDF: https://writersroom.org.uk/files/downloadable_information_for_Residency_final_text_v3.pdf

06 Mar 2026 London Festival of Architecture - Open call for Festival activity

Submission fee is waived for activities proposed by individuals.

https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/2026-key-dates/

08 Mar 2026 Call for participants for the Emerging Critics Project 2026: Queer East, London

We are excited to announce that Queer East Emerging Critics Project will return this April and May with six participants, in collaboration with Little White Lies. The project is aimed at emerging writers of all ages who have published no more than four articles on film or the arts in print or online media outlets, excluding self-publishing.

16 Mar 2026 CFP: Making Ecologies: Craft, Material, and Situated Practice

How do materials, environments, and traditions shape the way we make?

Making Ecologies is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium exploring how craft and material practices engage with ecological, cultural, and situated ways of making.

We invite scholars, researchers, artists, designers, conservators, and practitioners to respond to themes including: • Material Ecologies • Craft Assemblages • Situated Practices

18 Mar 2026 Community Author role - Museum of the Home, Hoxton, London

Paid opportunity

Project: to co-create a framework with the Museum for object disposals from areas of the Museum’s collection and apply this framework in community group sessions. Why: The Museum wants to be more collaborative in how we approach the management and care of the collection. Who are the Community Authors: People with knowledge, passion and interest in East London with different skills and experiences from Museum staff.

  • Money: we will offer £75 for every session you attend
  • How often: The meetings will take place during the day on weekdays (meeting approximately 14 times over one year).
  • Opportunities: to work with the Museum’s collections, to change how we approach disposals, and to collaborate with community groups Outcome: To co-create a blueprint for disposals and action the blueprint in community rationalisation sessions. This framework will become part of the Museum’s policies.

24 Mar 2026 North Kensington Social Justice Archive - Drop-in events

Help us design the North Kensington Social Justice Archive at North Kensington Library.

The archive will document over 150 years of local campaigns and community organising, and we’re now gathering feedback on early designs for the space.

Come through to see proposals developed by @jankatteinarch and share your thoughts with us.

North Kensington Library (ground floor) Session 1: 21 March, 12:00–3:00pm Session 2: 24 March, 5:30–7:30pm

No need to book - just drop in.

31 Mar 2026 Open City Documentary Festival Fellowship Programme 2026

13 April–17 April 2026, across London

The Fellowship Programme is a daily programme of free screenings and in-depth conversations with festival filmmakers that will take place as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2026.

The programme will run from Monday 13th April to Friday 17th April, between 11am – 2pm at Close-Up Cinema. Conversations will be hosted by tutors from the Documentary & Ethnographic Film MA (UCL). Successful applicants will receive

  • Access to daily screenings and in-depth conversations with filmmakers, running from Monday 13th April to Friday 17th April at Close-Up Cinema
  • A Student Pass, allowing access to Open City Documentary Festival’s programme of talks, performances and workshops held at the Rich Mix (The Studio).
  • A certificate of completion, handed out at the final screening on Friday 17th of April.

15 Apr 2026 CFP: Liquid, Solid and Gaseous: Remembering Through and With Water

24–25 June 2026, King’s College London LAHP-funded, hybrid conference

20 Apr 2026 ERA journal - call for artists (UCL student-run magazine)

Deadline: 20 April 2026

Era returns to the Crypt Gallery, below St Pancras New Church, NW1 2BA

Opening 16 May

22 Apr 2026 Exhibition: Stories of Migration and Everyday Life in London

We are inviting three kinds of submissions:

  1. Artists - Works related to mobility, migration, identity, and movement (lightweight / small-scale works preferred)
  2. Public submissions - Photos and short stories about living in the UK — moving house, commuting, working, staying temporarily, or hesitating between staying and leaving
  3. Scholars / researchers -Recommendations of migration-related papers, archives, books, zines, and theoretical texts

08 May 2026 STUDIO 404: ‘Touch Grass’ - Call for workshop facilitators

4 June 2026, 6pm–9pm, Hackney, London

STUDIO 404 (www.studio404.world) is a non-profit social enterprise founded by the teams behind Creative Debuts and Other Box. We create community-led cultural spaces and immersive programmes, exhibitions, and events that prioritise real-world connection.

We’re inviting artists, facilitators, and creative practitioners to host drop-in workshops as part of our next show: TOUCH GRASS.

TOUCH GRASS explores the creative energy of being outside. Shaped by public space, street culture, nature, and our “OFFLINE BY DESIGN” ethos, the event centres presence over performance, connection over consumption, and what becomes possible when we step away from the screen.

This is a large-scale, in-person cultural gathering bringing together artists, designers, brands, and communities to create, connect, and experience work in a shared physical space.

08 May 2026 Library Mothership call for emerging bookmakers - to exhibit at art book fairs

NB: Submission fee applies (£8)

This year, Library Mothership is opening a section of our table to highlight emerging bookmakers across four international book fairs in 2026. One submission, four book fairs.

Your book will be considered for:

  • Offprint London — 15–17 May, 180 Studios, 180 Strand, London
  • A Bigger Book Fair (Peckham 24) — 15-17 May, Copeland Gallery, London
  • Biblioteka Art Book Fair — 12–13 June, The Warburg Institute, London
  • I Never Read: Art Book Fair Basel — 14–20 June, Viaduktstrasse 33, Basel

Selected publications will appear at 2–4 of these fairs based on curatorial fit.

10 May 2026 Anthropolitan magazine (UCL Dept. of Anthropology)

This year, we are inviting both written submissions and visual works that will be showcased in two streams:

Anthropolitan Print Magazine

We welcome submissions across all formats for the Anthropolitan print magazine: ethnographic essays, creative non-fiction, poetry, photography, illustration, and experimental work that defies easy categorisation. Work that sits between disciplines, genres, or registers is especially encouraged. Word count for articles should be limited to 1,500 words and should be accompanied by at least 1 visual element (in high resolution jpeg format).

Anthropolitan x The Creative Collective Picture Competition

All visual art submissions will be entered in a competition to select the cover image for this year’s Anthropolitan print. Shortlisted pictures will be showcased during the AnthroShow on June 9 2026, and selected submissions will also be exhibited in the department, framed and displayed in the coming academic year.

In this way, visual works will be able to shape the department’s visual identity and its evolving legacy. Visuals should be of good quality resolution ( 2339 x 3307 pixels per inch), ideally to be printed in A3 and A4 formats and submitted as jpeg files.

15 May 2026 CFP: Warburg, Malraux, Picasso: Album, Atlas, Archive

Aby Warburg, André Malraux and Pablo Picasso were fascinated in their lifetime by the persistence and metamorphoses of images and the inheritance of world art. Today, Malraux’s musée imaginaire or ‘museum without walls’ extends to the virtual universe of images. Throughout 2026 events are taking place internationally to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of André Malraux, the adventurer, writer and first French Minister of Culture. The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study and the Courtauld Institute, University of London, together with the Musée national Picasso-Paris, are celebrating this occasion with a conference to be held on 4-5 December, 2026.

Warburg and Malraux expert Georges Didi-Huberman (EHESS, Paris) is a confirmed speaker.

Subjects might include:

  • Aby Warburg as precursor
  • Cultural restitution and the global ‘museum without walls’
  • Re-readings from the viewpoint of postcolonial theory
  • The global culture of image circulation
  • Focussed studies, such as Picasso’s exchanges with Malraux, commemorated in Malraux’s La tête d’obsidienne, 1974 (Picasso’s Mask, 1976)
  • Contemporary responses by artists such as Dennis Adams or Goshka Macuga

Papers should aim at 15-20 minutes for delivery, in English, with further time for questions.

Conference dates: 4-5 December 2026

Locations: The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, and the Courtauld Institute, University of London.

15 May 2026 Lip Service Issue #6 - Vagina Museum (Zine)

What does it mean to read art—not as image, but as language? And what if language itself is unstable, embodied, coded, or even resistant to being read at all?

For our next issue of Kunstlicht, we are looking for submissions that address the historical, situated, embodied, and fractured conditions of language in art, moving between theoretical and philosophical perspectives that situate particular linguistic and cultural ruptures, and artworks that test the limits of language as a tool.

Spreading knowledge and raising awareness of the gynaecological anatomy and health

  • Giving confidence to people to talk about issues surrounding the gynaecological anatomy
  • Erasing the stigma around the body and gynaecological anatomy
  • Acting as a forum for feminism, women’s rights, the LGBT+ community and the intersex community
  • Challenging heteronormative and cisnormative behaviour
  • Promoting intersectional, feminist and trans-inclusive values

26 May 2026 The Toe Rag - October 2026 issue - FICTIONS

Theme: FICTIONS

The Toe Rag publishes formally ambitious non-fiction, fiction, poetry and artworks. The magazine is concerned with contemporary culture, particularly visual art, performance, politics, philosophy and literature. We favour work that is intellectually rigorous and stylistically controlled. We recommend reading past writing in the magazine before submitting.

We accept proposals of up to 300 words and full essays of up to 3,000 words. Proposals should clearly indicate structure, content and intended word count and must be accompanied by at least one writing sample, published or unpublished. For poetry, please do not send more than five poems. For fiction, we accept stories of up to 4,000 words. For arts and book reviews, please send an expression of interest with a writing sample.

31 May 2026 Exhibition: GALLERY44 - The House Has a Body

Gallery44 is inviting submissions for an intimate autumn exhibition in London.

The House Has a Body considers domestic space not as a backdrop, but as something charged: a place where bodies, objects, surfaces and histories leave traces.

We are interested in practices exploring the body, memory, domestic space, objects, architecture, interiors, thresholds, textiles and material traces.

Artists working across painting, sculpture, installation, object-making, textile, photography and moving image are invited to send material.

Submission email in the Instagram post linked.

29 Jun 2026 Stanley Picker Fellowship in Art & Design

Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Art & Design.

Each Fellowship provides up to £16,000 and valuable access to the extensive material workshops, technical resources and expertise within Kingston School of Art and the wider University, to support a practice-based, innovative research project that will result in an exhibition of international standing at Stanley Picker Gallery.

01 Aug 2026 Hilltop Literary magazine - Vol. 2 The RESURGENCE

Hilltop is a London-based independent literary magazine dedicated to building a platform and community for writers across the city. Our aim is to champion creativity, honesty, and vulnerability, without compromising hope.

We are currently accepting submissions for Hilltop Vol. 2: The RESURGENCE Issue. For this issue, we encourage our contributors to explore the theme of resurgence in its many forms. Growth after dormancy, revival after stagnation, beginning again or regaining momentum. We invite you to share your unique perspective through poetry, storytelling, and photography.