Here are the winners of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes.

The eight winners of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. This annual prize recognizes literary achievement and promise in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry written in the English language from anywhere in the world, and is offered as an unrestricted grant of $175,000. This year’s winners are:

FICTION
Gwendoline Riley (United Kingdom)
Adam Ehrlich Sachs (United States)

NONFICTION
Lucy Sante (United States/Belgium)
Kei Miller (Jamaica)

DRAMA
Christina Anderson (United States)
S. Shakthidharan (Australia/Sri Lanka)

POETRY
Joyelle McSweeney (United States)
Karen Solie (Canada)