Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama
Prize Ceremony and Lecture by Karl Ove Knausgård
Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgård delivers the 2017 Windham-Campbell Lecture. President Peter Salovey presents awards to André Alexis (fiction), Erna Brodber (fiction), Marina Carr (drama), Ali Cobby Eckermann (poetry), Carolyn...
Wednesday, September 13, 5:00 PM
Nonfiction
The Realms of Nonfiction
Nonfiction prize recipients Maya Jasanoff and Ashleigh Young talk with Briallen Hopper about fact-based writing and the imagination. Briallen Hopper ’s book of essays on love and friendship is forthcoming...
Thursday, September 14, 12:00 PM
Fiction, Poetry, Drama
The Future of the Past: Myth-making in the Modern World
Professor of Classics Emily Greenwood talks with André Alexis, Marina Carr, and Carolyn Forché about how they approach myth in their work. Emily Greenwood studied Classics at Cambridge University, where...
Thursday, September 14, 12:00 PM
Fiction
Close Looking: Erna Brodber on African Fractal Designs
Erna Brodber looks at African textiles from the Yale University Art Gallery collection and discusses the use of fractals in her most recent novel, Nothing's Mat . Moderated by Caroline...
Thursday, September 14, 12:30 PM
Nonfiction
Close Looking: Maya Jasanoff on Johan Zoffany
Nonfiction prize recipient and Yale alumna Maya Jasanoff ( GRD '02), who spent much of her time as a student at the Yale Center for British Art, considers the work...
Thursday, September 14, 1:30 PM
Poetry
Screening: Poetry of Witness with Carolyn Forché and Filmmakers Anthony Cirilo and Billy Tooma
The 2015 film Poetry of Witness documents the struggles of six contemporary poets–survivors of war, torture, exile, and repression–to give voice to their experiences with the complex realities of memory,...
Thursday, September 14, 2:00 PM
Fiction, Nonfiction
Joseph Conrad in a Global World: Maya Jasanoff in Conversation with Pericles Lewis
The Beinecke’s original manuscript of modernist masterpiece The Heart of Darkness will be on display during this discussion of Conrad’s life and work (as well as Jasanoff's forthcoming book, The...
Thursday, September 14, 4:00 PM
Poetry
The Global Republic of Poetry: A Conversation with Ali Cobby Eckermann and Carolyn Forché
Poetry prize recipients Carolyn Forché and Ali Cobby Eckermann speak with Richard Deming about poetry's capacity to give voice to the local, the personal, and the political in a globalized...
Thursday, September 14, 4:00 PM
Fiction, Nonfiction, Drama
On Becoming a Writer
Prize Director Michael Kelleher talks with André Alexis, Erna Brodber, Ike Holter, and Ashleigh Young about how and when and why they started writing, and the greatest challenges they have...
Thursday, September 14, 5:30 PM
Drama
Staged Readings: Works by Drama Prize Recipients
The Yale School of Drama presents an evening of staged readings of short scenes from plays by Marina Carr and Ike Holter. Hosted by 2013 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient Tarell Alvin...
Thursday, September 14, 7:30 PM
Fiction
Buccaneers and Buried Gold: André Alexis on Robert Louis Stevenson
André Alexis’s 2016 novel The Hidden Keys was inspired by the classic adventure tale Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. This wide-ranging discussion, moderated by curator of Modern Books and...
Friday, September 15, 12:00 PM
Drama
The Art of Playwriting
Marina Carr and Ike Holter discuss playwriting, stagecraft, dialogue, drama, and more with Professor of English and Theater Studies Marc Robinson ( MFA '90, DFA '92). Marc Robinson is Professor...
Friday, September 15, 12:00 PM
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Ancestors: Where Do We Come From and Why Do We Care?
In conversation with novelist Min Jin Lee ( YC '90), Erna Brodber, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Maya Jasanoff, and Ashleigh Young explore the various ways that writers discover their ancestors and...
Friday, September 15, 12:00 PM
Poetry
Close Looking: Carolyn Forché on Anselm Kiefer
Carolyn Forché and David Kim ( LAW ’17) engage with German artist Anselm Kiefer’s 2001 painting Die Ungeborenen (The Unborn) . Note: seating is limited. David Kim is a graduate...
Friday, September 15, 12:30 PM
Drama
Close Looking: Marina Carr on William Blake and Francis Bacon
Marina Carr considers the connections between William Blake and Anglo-Irish figurative artist Francis Bacon in a conversation with Erica Wachs ( YC '18). Co-sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art.
Friday, September 15, 1:30 PM
Fiction
Emancipation in Woodside: Erna Brodber in Conversation with Claudia Rankine
Erna Brodber and Claudia Rankine discuss the annual Emancipation Day celebrations in Woodside, Saint Mary, the rural community in the hills of northeast Jamaica where Brodber was born and continues...
Friday, September 15, 4:00 PM
Poetry
Never a Solo Voice: Community, Indigeneity, and Art-making
Ali Cobby Eckermann and artist Natalie Ball talk with Adrienne Keene, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, about Indigeneity and the landscape of contemporary art...
Friday, September 15, 4:00 PM
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama
Art in the Age of Trump
The Age of Trump has changed political discourse in this country, perhaps forever. Legendary New York editor Erroll McDonald ( YC '75) talks with André Alexis, Carolyn Forché, Ike Holter,...
Friday, September 15, 4:00 PM
Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama
Closing Event: Prize Recipient Readings
It has become a festival tradition to close with short readings by all of the prize recipients. Featuring André Alexis, Erna Brodber, Marina Carr, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Carolyn Forché, Ike...
Friday, September 15, 7:30 PM