• Get to Know the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners

    Read Prize-Winning Work in Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Drama

    This year’s Windham-Campbell Festival kicks off at Yale University on September 13th, and along with a glamorous awards ceremony to honor the winners of $165,000 each grant money, there will be a keynote presentation from none other than Karl Ove Knausgaard, who will try to answer the question, “Why I write…”

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    This years winners, are:

    FICTION

    Andre Alexis · The Hidden Keys (read an excerpt here)
    Erna Brodber · Nothing’s Mat

    NONFICTION

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    Ashleigh Young · Can You Tolerate This? (read an excerpt here)
    Maya Jasanoff · Liberty’s Exiles

    POETRY

    Ali Cobby Eckerman · Little Bit Long Time (read a poem here)
    Carolyn Forché · Blue Hour

    DRAMA

    Marina Carr · Hecuba (read an excerpt here)
    Ike Holter · Hit the Wall

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    Read the Essay "Big Red" from Ashleigh Young's Can You Tolerate This?

     and surely we shall not continue to be unhappy we shall be happy but we shall continue to be ourselves everything continues...

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