Nomination Guidelines
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Eligibility qualifications:- Nominees should have at least three-years in residence in Pima County or its surrounding reservations in Pinal and Cochise Counties
- Nominees should be an active participant in local writing communities, including but not limited to writing groups, workshops, and public reading series (including open mic)
- Nominees should demonstrate a maturity of craft and a dedication to the mastery of poetry
- Bilingual writers or poets who write in a language other than English will be considered as long as the poems are submitted with an English translation
- Preference will be given to nominees who have not yet received significant national recognition in the form of publications or awards
- University of Arizona faculty, staff, and students are not eligible.
To nominate a poet for the Mary Ann Campau Memorial Fellowship, submit a nomination packet to:
Campau Fellowship Committee, UA Poetry Center
1508 E. Helen St.
Tucson, AZ 85721-0150
Submissions for the 2008 contest are due by 5 p.m. on October 17, 2008.
Nomination packets should include the following information:
- Nominator name, address, phone number(s), and email address
- Nominee name, address, phone number(s), and email address
- A 300 word statement outlining the nominee's accomplishments and contribution to the literary arts, evidence of the nominee's active participation in the local poetry community, the impact of the nominee's work or contributions in his/her community.
- A writing sample of the nominee's work (up to ten pages of poetry).
- Current and former staff are ineligible to receive scholarship. Current staff is ineligible to nominate candidates
Mary Ann Campau Memorial Fellowship
The Mary Ann Campau Memorial Fellowship for Southern Arizona Poets recognizes talented writers who strengthen and inspire our literary landscape. The Fellowship provides a $1000 stipend and an opportunity to read in the Poetry Center Reading Series. Fellows are selected through community nomination and juried selection.
A resident of Tucson for forty years, Mary Ann Campau was a devoted supporter of poetry and poets in our community. She was a well-known and much-loved public school teacher who retired in 1989, when she began to take workshops at the Center with Richard Siken and Richard Shelton and then through the Writing Works Center with William Pitt Root and Pamela Uschuk. These workshops sparked a passion for poetry and a dedication to her local poetry community. Mary Ann hosted writing classes with guest poets in her own home; provided "grants" to writers who could not otherwise afford to attend these and other workshops; she attended, supported, and participated in numerous local reading series; and through her own enthusiasm she cultivated new audiences for poetry. Her poems were published in local journals, including Sandcutters and The Tucson Poet and in 2001 she published a full-length collection of her own poetry, Like a Waterwheel Ghost. In the spirit of Mary Ann Campau, this Fellowship is offered to recognize poets who work actively and consistently to support poetry in the Tucson area.
Congratulations to Maria Elena Wakamatsu, recipient of the first annual Mary Ann Campau Fellowship for Southern Arizona Writers
