Sculpture Journal is the foremost scholarly journal dedicated to the study of sculpture and three-dimensional art across all periods and geographies. To mark the journal’s thirtieth anniversary in 2027, the editors have launched the inaugural Sculpture Journal Essay Prize. Full details of the call for submissions are below.
We are pleased to announce the inaugural Sculpture Journal Essay Prize to coincide with the journal’s thirtieth anniversary year in 2027. The editors invite research articles on any topic relevant to Sculpture Journal’s readership from early career researchers and doctoral students. These should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words (including notes) in length with a maximum of 10 images. The editors will review all submissions to select the prize winner and will work with the successful candidate to prepare the manuscript for publication after peer review. Other promising articles submitted to the prize may be invited to publish their submission in Sculpture Journal.
The deadline for submissions of full articles is 15 January 2027; email submissions to both Teresa Kittler (teresa.kittler@york.ac.uk) and Natasha Ruiz-Gómez (natashar@essex.ac.uk) with the subject line ‘Sculpture Journal Essay Prize’.
Please refer to our style guidelines before submitting: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/sj.
The prize includes:
- Publication of the winning essay (scheduled in Sculpture Journal’s thirtieth anniversary year in 2027)
- Image permission costs covered up to an agreed amount
- Free Open Access for the article
- Featured promotion across Liverpool University Press platforms
- A complimentary one-year subscription to the journal
In the unlikely event that, in the editors’ opinion, the material submitted is not of a suitable standard, no prize will be awarded.
If you are based at a university or research institution, please consider recommending a journal subscription to Sculpture Journal to your librarian. Institutional subscriptions provide full online access to the complete archive—nearly 30 years of scholarship dating back to 1997—and support the ongoing publication of this vital resource.
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