Open Call: 2026 Bronx Memoir Project Anthology Book Cover Design

Open Call – Book Cover Design 

Description:  Bronx Council on the Arts is seeking a Bronx-based photographer and/or visual artist to design a cover for The Bronx Memoir Project Volume X, a multi-genre anthology written during the 2025-2026 Bronx Memoir Project Workshop Series. The Bronx Memoir Project offers free, professionally-led memoir-writing workshops across the Bronx. Aligned with BCA’s mission to elevate local narratives and stories, the Bronx Memoir Project helps amplify local voices and document Bronx history through an array of writing tools, along with the professional development needed for writers to publish on their own. The book will be self-published by the Bronx Council on the Arts and distributed through amazon.com. This year's anthology theme is: 

Excavating Memories: Writing that Refuses to Forget 

Stories don’t start or end with us. In this collection, writers explore their inner architecture and unearth sacred memories to join a lineage of storytellers - past, present, and future. 

Details: 

• Please submit one image per artist. 
• All visual media that can be reproduced in print may apply (Photography, Illustrations, Prints, Paintings, etc.)
• The image can be color or B&W. 
• Only submit JPEG or TIFF files.
• It must be high resolution -- 300 dpi or higher. 
• Ideal dimensions for cover files are 2,560 pixels in height x 1,600 pixels in width.
• An ideal height/width ratio of at least 1.6:1, meaning: For every 1,000 pixels in width, the image should be 1,600 pixels in height.
• The image must depict a scene set in the Bronx (i.e. scenic, street scenes, symbolic, etc.) open to interpretation by the artist. 
• Submit up to a paragraph about your image and how it relates to the goals and intentions of the Bronx Memoir Project.
• The submitted image must be an original work created by the artist. Both the artist and BCA retain reproduction rights to the image, with credit always given to the artist as the creator of the image.
• Stipend of $500 will be provided.
• Deadline is Friday, April 17, 2026, at 11:59 PM.

 Eligibility Requirements:  Artist / Creative must be a Bronx resident.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Programs Manager, Chanelle Aponte Pearson, at chanelle@bronxarts.org.