Windham-Campbell Prizes

🎊Get excited! This year’s Windham-Campbell Prize recipients will be announced on Wednesday, April 8th. Tune in to celebrate this year’s international cohort of eight brilliant writers working in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama. Each writer will receive an unrestricted grant of $175,000 to support their boldest work yet. windhamcampbell.org

“I am truly humbled, inspired, and immensely grateful to receive this extremely generous affirmation and sustenance from the Windham-Campbell Prize and Yale University. I consider this prize to be like a contract: you have chosen to show an incredible amount of faith in me, and I, in turn, hope to reward that faith by using the resources and support given me to create new work for our theater and to be there for our young artists—to aid their process in any way I can. Thank you so much.” —Stephen Adly Guirgis on being gifted a Windham-Campbell Prize in 2013 Starring Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Jon Bernthal, Guirgis’s DOG DAY AFTERNOON is a high-energy play that will take you back to a sweltering New York City summer day in 1972 when an attempted bank robbery—with a queer love story at its heart—turns into a hostage crisis. If you’re in NY, don’t miss your chance to experience @Dogdaybway at the August Wilson Theatre, now through July 12th.

📣 We'll be announcing the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients right here on Wednesday, April 8th at 2:15pm EDT / 7:15pm BST! Tune in next week to meet this year's cohort of eight brilliant writers from across the English-speaking world 🌎

“It was just really exciting to see how the community came together to celebrate writing. I just felt so loved.” —Cathy Park Hong, 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry Each year, eight writers receive a surprise call from Windham-Campbell Prize director Michael Kelleher with some good news... Their literary achievement is being celebrated with a gift of $175,000! Tune in Wednesday, April 8th to meet this year’s prize recipients and watch their reactions to being awarded this life-changing prize.

🎉 Mark your calendars! Just two weeks until the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize recipients are revealed. Take a peek at which of your favorite writers have been awarded since 2013: windhamcampbell.org/recipients

Congrats to Windham-Campbell Prize recipient Canisia Lubrin on winning the OCM Bocas Prize from @bocaslitfest! Watch a short introduction to her work: windhamcampbell.org/festival/2021/…

There's a love story behind the Windham-Campbell Prizes: windhamcampbell.org/history-mission

Mark your calendar because on Wednesday, April 8th, we’ll be announcing this year’s Windham-Campbell Prize recipients! Each of the eight writers, two in each of the four genres—fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama—will receive an unrestricted grant of $175,000 and join us in September for a week of arts and literary events on @yale’s campus. Past prize recipients include Hanif Abdurraqib, Anne Enright, Yiyun Li, and Roy Williams. For the full list of over 100 writers, visit windhamcampbell.org 📚

It's even more complicated than that: “That’s the paradox of being a black artist — you got to want to be looked at by these people who *you hate looking at you.” —  Fred Moten [0:52] Morrison saw this as a problem of pornography/ voyeurism inherent to representation.

Congrats to Windham-Campbell Prize recipient Namwali Serpell on her new book on Toni Morrison!

Monday evening's conversation with @MishalHusain in full youtube.com/watch?v=xbDany…

We started the Windham-Campbell Prizes podcast to share inspiring conversations with past prize recipients on the books they keep returning to. So far, we've spoken to @byranadasgupta about Giuseppe di Lampedusa's THE LEOPARD, to Helen Garner about Henry Green's PARTY GOING, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Audre Lord's THE BLACK UNICORN, among others. Explore all of our episodes on Literary Hub or wherever you listen to podcasts: lithub.com/category/lithu…

'Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals' by Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a book-length meditation for the human species, based on the subversive, transformative lessons of marine mammals. #BookOfTheDay: on.nypl.org/4c9Zjjf

Come find us at @awpwriter this week! Stop by booth 430 for subscription deals, merch, and more. Plus: Jonathan Gleason, winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, will be signing books on Friday. @yalepress

Also very good at writing. Learn why Lydia Davis writes in her book INTO THE WEEDS out from @yalepress: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030027…

Thrilled to share that @YaleReview has been named a finalist for two National Magazine Awards — General Excellence in Literature, Science, and Politics, as well as Fiction! The competition is fierce, which makes this all the sweeter. So proud of our small but mighty team. 🎉

Congratulations to the @yalereview! Highly recommend reading 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient Sigrid Nunez's "The Rabbit's Foot": yalereview.org/article/sigrid…

Tonight in NYC! Hope you can make it!