Eighth Annual Poetry Contest
$1,000 Awarded for Poems of
Provocation & Witness
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2014
Benefits Split This Rock Poetry Festival
April14-17, 2016—Washington, DC
ABOUT THE CONTEST
Reading Fee: $20 / Deadline: November 1, 2014 / Simultaneous Submissions Okay (See
guidelines)
Submissions
should be in the spirit of Split This Rock: socially engaged poems, poems that
reach beyond the self to connect with the larger community or world; poems of
provocation and witness. This theme can be interpreted broadly and may include
but is not limited to work addressing politics, economics, government, war,
leadership; issues of identity (gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability,
body image, immigration, heritage, etc.); community, civic engagement,
education, activism; and poems about history, Americana, cultural icons.
ABOUT THE JUDGE: Natalie Diaz
The most recent recipient of the Holmes National Poetry Prize, Natalie Diaz is Mojave
and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community. After playing
professional basketball in Europe and Asia for several years, she completed her
MFA in poetry and fiction at Old Dominion University. She has been awarded the
2012 Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Literature Fellowship, a 2012 Lannan
Residency, and a 2012 Lannan Literary Fellowship. She won a Pushcart Prize in
2013. Her first book, When My Brother Was
an Aztec, was published in 2012 by Copper Canyon Press. She currently lives
in Mohave Valley, Arizona, and directs a language revitalization program at
Fort Mojave, her home reservation. There she works and teaches with the last
Elder speakers of the Mojave language.
ABOUT THE PRIZES
First place recipient
receives $500 and the opportunity to read her/his poem at the 2016 Split This
Rock festival; second and third place receive $250 each. All three winners receive
free 2016 festival registration and their poems published at www.splitthisrock.org. Up to three honorable mentions will receive
signed copies of Nude Descending an
Empire, Sam Taylor’s newest book.
SUBMISSION
GUIDELINES
Submit up to 3
unpublished poems, no more than 6 pages total, in any style, in the spirit of
Split This Rock (see “About The Contest”) online at http://splitthisrock.submittable.com/submit. Simultaneous
submissions are okay, but please notify us immediately if the poem is accepted
elsewhere.
FOR
QUESTIONS OR MORE INFO: info@splitthisrock.org
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20036 / 202.787.5210 / WWW.SPLITTHISROCK.ORG
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