Opportunity for Writers: Art Alliance Writers’ Workshop Poetry Prize
January 7, 2020
Free to enter, poets selected for the prize will receive $100, publication in a future issue of Horsethief Magazine and ten hand-printed letterpress broadside prints of the winning poem. The selected poets will be invited to read alongside poet Daisy Fried at the Art Alliance on Thursday, April 2nd, during a public program celebrating the work of C.K. Williams.
The Art Alliance Writers' Workshop Poetry Prize celebrates the work of C.K. Williams this year and is presented in conjunction with Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde. Opening January 21, 2020 at the Art Alliance and select venues around Philadelphia, Invisible City is curated by UArts Director of Exhibitions Sid Sachs with Jennie Hirsh, Assistant Curator, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at MICA. Support for the research, development and presentation of Invisible City is provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Invisible City highlights Philadelphia’s significant contributions to visual culture from the 1950s through the 1970s in an exhibition, a publication and performances. The project invites audiences to envision Philadelphia as “a city of firsts” — the site of the first Pop Art exhibitions, innovations in architecture and urban planning, one of the country’s first rock music magazines, and substantial postwar growth of art schools.
Please send us your most daring and visionary work.
Eligibility:
Any writer residing in the United States is eligible to apply. Two poems will be selected for the prize, one from a poet residing in the greater Philadelphia area, and one from a poet residing elsewhere in the United States.
Though submitted poems do not need to reference C.K. Williams or Invisible City directly, we encourage entrants to gather inspiration from the forthcoming exhibition or C.K. Williams's writings.