The Switcheroo! Call for Ekphrastic Submissions: Deadline 5/1/2025
BROADSIDED’S ANNUAL SWITCHEROO
WANTED: Ekphrastic Responses to artist Regin Igloria‘s digital collage, Morning Meditation
DEADLINE: May 1, 2025
SUBMITTABLE LINK (use “Switcheroo” tab)
Broadsided seeks submissions of poetry and short prose that respond to this art.
The winning entry will be published on June 1, 2025, as a Broadsided collaboration to enliven the doors, utility poles, bus stops, and walls of the world. Submission guidelines and details follow.
What is The Switcheroo? Every spring, we like to invite writers to respond to art we select for publication (most of our broadsides originate with artists responding to writing). This is the 22nd Broadsided “Switcheroo.”
This piece was chosen by artist Sara Tabbert; of her decision, Sara had this to say:
In selecting work for this “Switcheroo,” I was drawn to the variety and exploration in Regin’s work. I particularly loved his drawings and their confident, fluid, energetic marks. Those marks are still in evidence in this photographic collage, where swipes taken through one image reveal parts of another. “Morning Mediation” presents plenty of questions for a writer to consider—integration of being and landscape, crouch, tangle, a sense of an inadequate attempt to hide, the passer-by encountering a flash of an unreal or mythic being along a very ordinary, grey, rural roadway. —Sara Tabbert
GUIDELINES:
Poems should be UNDER 20 lines. Prose should be UNDER 300 words.
Entries should be sent via Submittable under the “Switcheroo” tab (please make sure you enter via that tab, not the “poems” or “prose” portals). Further guidelines can be found on Submittable.
Curious to know what we’re looking for? See past Switcheroo publications.
We’ve favored responses that are not literal interpretations but instead amplify some emotional aspect of the visual art. As both image and text will appear together in the final publication, we seek writing in conversation with the art such that a new piece is created by the two together.
PS: We are are also open for non-Switcheroo submissions. See our guidelines. If selected, a Broadsided artist will respond to your work. See what you inspire!