Join the AWC editorial program as they explore these ideas through four open calls: Experience, Transfiguration, Choreography, and Relationships. Each theme invites diverse, personal contributions that inspire reflection and action.

Open Call #1: EXPERIENCE
To ask for help, to arrive, to beg, to carry, to embrace, to steal, to survive, to care, to scream, to fight, to grieve.
– Highlights from the unequal nature of our lived experiences.

Submissions that critically engage with personal narratives, social commentaries, and art discourses. We seek works that not only reflect on the specificities of individual experience but also create a link to broader systems – e.g., economic, political, and/or social – that shape the context of experience. 

Deadline for entry: April 1, 2025
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Open Call #2: TRANSFIGURATION
To alchemize, to rebirth, to metamorphose, to hide the subject
– On behalf of…; In the words of…; In memory of…; In the spirit of…; In the name of…

Works that inspire wonder and contemplation, and that engage with the act of transformation – both individual and collective, that explore the multiple meanings of the term across different disciplines. 

Deadline for entry: May 15, 2025
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Open Call #3: CHOREOGRAPHY

To elevate, to flow, to convert
– Rituals, Ceremonies, Celebrations, Commemorations, Chants, Recipes, Conundrums

Works that hold the tensions between constraint and improvisation, repetition, and rupture, and the complex movements of bodies and goods within nature-cultural environments. 

Deadline for entry: July 1, 2025
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Open Call #4: RELATIONSHIPS
To love and be loved
– On Ancestry, Chains of Thought, Affinities, Kinships, Camaraderie, Values

Contributions that turn inward to examine the bonds that shape our lives and social worlds. Some connections may not survive times of upheaval, requiring us to form new ones, drawing on quantum physics, psychology, attachment theory, and affect theory all while delving into indigenous forms of relating and entangling.

Deadline for entry: October 1, 2025
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The aim is to publish up to 10 submissions per issue and will select additional works for our online editions. Given our underfunded editorial labor, we ask for intellectual solidarity in exchange for exposure and the editorial guidance we offer in the publishing process. Our long-term goal is to ensure full compensation for all contributors, but we currently don’t have the means to achieve this. We are committed to providing feedback for all submissions, acknowledging the time and effort involved.

Guidelines for All 4 Calls:
Length: 1,000 words (maximum)
Language: Contributions may be in any language, and we encourage you to
Format: Submit as a PDF and/or as images in a folder, with each file titled in the following format: [Your Name]_[OpenCallTopic]
For submissions, and inquiries contact: Dalia Maini, dm@artsoftheworkingclass.org

You can find more information for each of the calls here