## OPEN CALL

### Liberty London

Liberty London ran the open call for their Beauty Advent Calendar on Dapple, using enterprise SSO, a structured review workflow, and in-platform finalist communications to manage a high-prestige commission end to end. Dapple helped:

- Handle hundreds of artist applications in one secure system
- Review a visually stunning image board
- Built-in messaging for applicant communications
- Manage finalist invitations in the same platform

[Read more](/content/customer-stories/liberty-london/index.html)

Nerrisa Pratt  
Marketing Project Lead, Liberty London

## EXHIBITIONS

### No Place Art

No Place Art run contemporary juried open calls and exhibitions. As submissions and admin workload grew, they needed a cleaner way to manage artists, judging, and communications. Dapple helped:

- Increase artist submissions year-on-year
- Run structured judging workflows across their panel
- Manage artist communication in one place
- Handle post-selection logistics without spreadsheet chaos

[Read more](/content/customer-stories/no-place-art/index.html)

Rowan Siddons  
Founder & Curator, No Place Art

## FELLOWSHIPS

### Evermay

Evermay launched its Future Fellows Program and needed robust infrastructure for application intake, panel review, and multi-stage progression across cohorts. Dapple helped:

- Run multi-cohort fellowship applications in one system
- Manage independent panel scoring and comments
- Track candidates through shortlist and interview stages
- Keep the full candidate record intact across every stage

[Read more](/content/customer-stories/evermay/index.html)

Allison Gent  
Program Manager, Evermay Foundation

## CONTEST

### Palo Alto Weekly

For four decades, the Palo Alto Weekly has run one of California's most beloved community writing competitions. Dapple replaced email and spreadsheets with a single platform for intake, blind review, judging, payments, and communications. Dapple helped:

- Manage hundreds of entries across three age categories in one workflow
- Run blind review with separate judging panels and built-in audit trails
- Collect entry fees directly through Stripe at submission
- Notify all entrants automatically on results day

[Read more](/content/customer-stories/palo-alto-weekly/index.html)

Heidi Hartley  
Director of Marketing and Audience Development, Palo Alto Weekly

## PUBLISHING

### Open Shelf Reviews

Open Shelf Reviews moved off Scholastica to Dapple to run a paid editorial workflow with tiered pricing, payment-gated submissions, and a 50-reviewer external panel. Dapple helped:

- Gate submission forms behind successful Stripe payment
- Run category-based pricing, discounts, and expedited options
- Assign and manage 50 external reviewers in one system
- Automate author and reviewer communication

[Read more](/content/customer-stories/open-shelf-reviews/index.html)

Kimberly Olson Fakih  
Manager, Open Shelf Reviews

## PUBLISHING

### Vellichor Literary

Vellichor Literary are an independent literary magazine based in San Francisco, USA. With over 100k Instagram followers and thousands of submissions for their open calls, they needed a system to manage their growing audience. Dapple helped:

- Manage all their open calls in one place
- Hire and create an editorial team
- Assign submissions and collaborate across their team
- Communicate efficiently with their active subscriber base

[Read more](/content/customer-stories/vellichor-literary/index.html)

Ben Ramakrishnan  
Founder, Vellichor Literary

## What our customers say

★★★★★★

4.9

Hear from some of the creative organisations who have transformed their submission management with Dapple.

### Case Study

“Dapple has been a game changer for managing our submissions easily in one place. The intuitive interface makes reviewing hundreds of submissions simple, while the portal's many personalisations let us keep the human connection.”  
  
Daniel Clarke  
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Briefly Write

### Case Study

“Dapple has completely changed how we work. It's made managing submissions feel creative again — not chaotic.”  
  
Ben Ramakrishnan  
Founder, Vellichor Literary  
[Read the full story](/content/customer-stories/vellichor-literary/index.html)

### Case Study

“Dapple turned our review process from spreadsheet chaos into something we actually enjoy. It's faster, clearer, and honestly makes running our calls feel enjoyable again.”  
  
Rowan Siddons  
Founder & Curator, No Place Art  
[Read the full story](/content/customer-stories/no-place-art/index.html)

### Case Study

“Everything is so much easier now. We used email and spreadsheets before — now submissions, reviewing, and communications all live in one place.”  
  
Allison Gent  
Program Manager, Evermay Foundation  
[Read the full story](/content/customer-stories/evermay/index.html)

### Case Study

“We've used Award Force for years. Judging in Dapple is so much more user-friendly, visual and quicker to complete.”  
  
Emily Ridley-Fink  
Founder, Wem Ceramics