Winner of the 2025 Quill Prose Prize!
D.A. Navoti’s forthcoming memoir One Pima Pilgrim: A Symphonic Memoir of a Father, His Son, and the Indigenous Southwest is winner of the 2025 Quill Prose Prize and will be published by Red Hen Press in 2028.
Read sample chapters of One Pima Pilgrim published by CRAFT and The Seventh Wave.
About
D.A. Navoti is a multidisciplinary storyteller, composer, and writer of the Gila River Indian Community. The author and curator of essays, stories, and multimedia exhibits, his artistic work spans three landscapes — written, musical, and visual — a hybrid form maximizing Indigenous futures.
News
CRAFT Editors Choice – D. A. Navoti’s Residential School Requiem, an excerpt from his memoir-in-progress, One Pima Pilgrim, was selected as an editors’ choice for the 2024 Memoir Excerpt and Essay Contest. Read Residential School Requiem...
2025 Art Projects Award – 4Culture awarded D.A. Navoti an Arts Project grant to produce a series of short films. Learn about the award…
2025 Literary Award Winner – The Tucson Festival of Books awarded D.A. Navoti with the Nonfiction Literary Award for his memoir excerpt One Pima Pilgrim. Learn more…
Events
2026
- July 30 ~ Know Your Worth Workshop with D.A. Navoti, Virtual
- July 18 ~ Part II of The Superhumanities at The Vestibule, Seattle, WA
2025
- Oct 2 ~ Symphonic Memoir, Part I of The Superhumanities Series, Seattle, WA
- Apr 29 ~ Poetry in Public with D.A. Navoti, José Luis Montero, and Guests, Seattle, WA
- Apr 26 ~ . . . and then . . . (a roundtable discussion about art), Seattle, WA
- Mar 16 ~ Tomorrow’s Bestsellers Today, Tucson, AZ
2024
- Nov 1 ~ Nonfiction for No Reason, Seattle, WA
2023
- Oct 17 ~ Meet the Writers of Expand Upon: Healthcare, Podcast
- Jun 1 – Sept 1 ~ O’otham Rhapsode Exhibition, Seattle, WA
- May 20 ~ Queer and Courageous: Stories of Existence and Resistance, Seattle, WA
- Apr 3 ~ Know Your Worth Workshop for Artists, Virtual
- Mar 11 ~ Babaylans, Griots, and Culture Keepers – Memoir As Collective Storytelling, AWP Seattle
- Jan 5 ~ Into the Convergence Zone, Bothell, WA
2022
- Oct 1 ~ The BIPOC Writer’s Toolkit: Strategies for Funding Applications, Seattle, WA
- Sep 22 ~ Community Write-in with D.A. Navoti, Seattle, WA
2021
- Oct 16 ~ The BIPOC Writer’s Toolkit: Market Your Work with Content Strategy, Seattle, WA
- Oct 7 ~ Spooky & Suspenseful Community Write-in with D.A. Navoti, Seattle, WA
- Oct 1 ~ The BIPOC Writer’s Toolkit: Strategies for Funding Applications, Seattle, WA
- May 8 & 15 ~ The BIPOC Writers Toolkit: Project Manage Your Writing Life!, Seattle, WA
- Jan 23 ~ The Indigenous Writer’s Toolkit: How to Launch Your Craft, Seattle, WA
2020
- Feb 1 ~ Making Time: Everything You Need to Know About Residencies, Seattle, WA
- Sep 19 ~ The Indigenous Writer’s Toolkit: Strategies for Funding Applications, Seattle, WA