Prompt: Heat
Ode to Them open calls are designed to create meaningful opportunities for artists, writers and image-makers across disciplines. We review every submission with care and welcome experimental, emerging and established voices alike.
This week's visual prompt explores Heat.
Can heat comfort, transform or devastate? We welcome every interpretation.
We invite interpretations of heat in all its forms - physical, emotional, political, ecological or deeply personal. Think of warmth, desire, drought, memory, friction, fever, summer, comfort or collapse.
Selected works will be published on odetothem.com and considered for inclusion in our bi-annual print zine.
Previous Ode to Them open calls have received over 1,000 submissions from artists and creatives worldwide. The submission fee helps support the time, care and administration required to thoughtfully review every application.
Submission Fee: £3
Deadline: 7 July 2026