We invite you to submit to the 2014 David Blair Memorial Chapbook Prize (formerly OW! Arts Prize). The prize includes a cash award of $150, 30 author copies, and a high quality video filmed by series editor Jamaal May. Camera shy poets fret not. The video can be made regardless of your preferred level of participation or can be waived altogether if you want. All finalists will be considered for publication.

Guidelines

• 24 pages of poetry, maximum (excluding front matter: contents, title page etc,)
• $15 fee
• Award: $150, 30 author copies, and short poetry film.
• 50% author discount

Deadline for submissions: APRIL 15-June 21

 

 

 

In Memory of

See a video of Blair here.

Blair, born David Alan Blair, passed away on July 23, 2011. He was an award-winning, multi-faceted artist: singer-songwriter, poet, writer, performer, musician, community activist and teacher. Born Sept. 19, 1967, he grew up in Newton, N.J., but called Detroit his adopted home.  Blair performed all over the world and has friends on almost every continent. Blair’s work and life leave an indelible impression on the Detroit community as well as all of the communities he touched. The Blair prize honors his legacy.

 

Judge Bio

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She played professional basketball in Europe and Asia before earning her MFA at Old Dominion University. Her first book, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She lives in Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works with the last Elder speakers of the Mojave language to document and revitalize the Makav language at Fort Mojave. She and her Elders are building a Mojave language dictionary and encyclopedia. She is a Lannan Fellow as well as a Native Arts Council Foundation Fellow. She teaches in the Institute of American Indian Arts Low Rez MFA program.

 

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