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Recordings of a wide range of events from the festival are now available on our YouTube channel. Start with the keynote lecture by internationally renowned writer and translator Lydia Davis and then go wherever your fancy takes you! Maybe a museum session? Or a staged reading? A genre-bending discussion about the history of Black performance, perhaps?

A new season of the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast, produced in partnership with Literary Hub, launches on May 29! Each of the eight episodes features one of this year’s recipients: for Fiction, Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan; for Nonfiction, Christina Sharpe and Hanif Abdurraqib; for Drama, Christopher Chen and Sonya Kelly; and for Poetry, m. nourbeSe philip and Jen Hadfield.

Part of our ongoing partnership with literary website Lit Hub, the new episodes feature Windham-Campbell Prize alumni: Yiyun Li, Creative Writing Professor at Princeton University (Fiction, 2020); John Keene, award-winning novelist of Counternarratives and Rutgers University-Newark chair of African Studies (Fiction, 2018); Tessa Hadley, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature with a reputation as one of England’s finest contemporary writers (Fiction 2016); and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins whose Obie Award-winning play Appropriate is currently making its debut on Broadway (Drama, 2016).

Check out the full schedule now! The fall festival showcases the extraordinary range of talent across the Windham-Campbell Prizes with a series of thought-provoking lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and performances from this year’s recipients. The festival also features a keynote lecture by internationally renowned writer and translator Lydia Davis and the return of our annual kick-off event: a welcome party with free food and music at our College Street Tent.

Check out the full schedule now! The fall festival showcases the extraordinary range of talent across the Windham-Campbell Prizes with a series of thought-provoking lectures, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances from this year’s recipients and alumni. The festival also marks the return of its annual closing event, which sees all 2023 recipients deliver a short reading on the final evening. Morning Wake Up sessions offer attendees free coffee and treats, book giveaways, and a short readings by prize recipients, hosted by Meghan O'Rourke, editor of The Yale Review.

The podcast series will comprise eight episodes, each featuring one of this year’s recipients: for fiction, Percival Everett and Ling Ma; for nonfiction, Susan Williams and Darran Anderson; for drama, Dominique Morisseau and Jasmine Lee-Jones; and for poetry, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and dg nanouk okpik.