Rolling Calls: Accepting Submissions Continuously

A rolling call has no deadline. It stays open, artists apply whenever they are ready, your jurors vote on each applicant as they arrive, and you admit people one at a time instead of waiting to judge a batch. It was built for membership intake, where an artist should not have to wait eleven months for the next round, and it suits anything else you run continuously: an open portfolio review, a standing artist register, a rolling scholarship.

Rolling is only available on Application calls, the call type that judges a person and their portfolio rather than a priced artwork. See Application Calls for what an application collects.

Turning it on

Rolling is chosen when you create the call and cannot be changed afterwards, so decide before you press create.

At Admin → Calls → Create Call, set Call Type to Application, Membership, or Scholarship. On the Dates step you will then see Rolling / continuous intake, a switch reading Rolling or Fixed deadline. Turn it to Rolling.

Leave Submission Deadline blank. The field is still on the timeline, but a rolling call ignores any date you put there and is never closed automatically.

If you pick Membership as the call type, rolling is turned on for you, along with a blind jury and the setting that turns accepted applicants into members. You can switch rolling back off before you create the call if you would rather run membership in rounds.

Once the call exists, the toggle is visible in the editor but greyed out, with a note reading Rolling mode is set when the call is created. To change your mind, create a new call.

What artists see

Everywhere a deadline would normally appear, the public page instead reads Applications accepted on a rolling basis. The call's quick facts show Applications: Rolling basis, with the note Accepted on a rolling basis, no fixed deadline. On browse pages and link previews, the same sentence replaces the deadline.

Otherwise the call behaves like any other. It carries a badge showing it is open, artists apply through the normal form, and your submission limits and fees apply as configured.

How jurors vote

A rolling call replaces scoring with a straight verdict, because there is no batch to rank against. When a juror opens Jury Review for a rolling call, they see one applicant at a time and three buttons: , , and , plus a box for a note to the rest of the panel.