Poets Anthony Vahni Capildeo (Polkadot Wounds, winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry) and Lawrence Scott (Looking for Cazabon) explore journeys through landscapes of memory, history and longing. Hosted by @michaelkelleher.bsky.social
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"There is nothing to do
For our liberation, except wait in the horror of it." —John Ashbery

A joy to talk with @michaelkelleher.bsky.social about the Windham-Campbell Prizes *and* with Sammy Loren about On The Rag, his new literary tabloid!

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Anthony V. Capildeo Anthony V. Capildeo’s poems are immersed equally in narrative and lyric, querying forms with an insistent playfulness and a radical political consciousness.

You can watch their profile video here windhamcampbell.org/festival/202...

I get paid to do this.

Eight writers awarded Yale’s Windham-Campbell Prizes Eight authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama received this year’s international award in recognition of literary achievements or promise.

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Roy Williams and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini awarded Windham-Campbell Prizes for drama Roy Williams, the creator of the Death of England trilogy, and Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, writer of the Olivier award-winner Sleepova, will each receive $175,000 to support their work

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Anne Enright, Rana Dasgupta and Roy Williams win Windham-Campbell Prizes, receiving £135,205 each Anne Enright, Rana Dasgupta and Roy Williams are among the winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes with eight authors awarded $175,000 (£135,205).

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‘I am floored’: Anne Enright on winning $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prize Booker Prize-winning author becomes eighth Irish writer to win one of the literary world’s most generous prizes

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Here are the winners of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight winners of the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prizes have been announced. This annual prize recognizes excellence in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry written in the English language from any…

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S.F.’s Poet Laureate awarded $175,000 as part of prestigious literary prize Tongo Eisen-Martin has been named one of eight recipients of this year’s Windham-Campbell Prize, which provides writers the financial means to focus on creating

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Novelist Anne Enright wins an $175k Windham-Campbell prize Awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama, 2025’s recipients include novelist Sigrid Nunez, playwright Roy Williams and poet Anthony V Capildeo

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I love Wim Wenders' films from the seventies, but I proudly belong to the minority who think "Wings of Desire" is terrible, as is most of what came after it.

Tribute to David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, featuring this brilliant cameo by Buffalo Bills head coach Sean McDermott

Secret message appearing in my espresso, possibly in ancient Greek.

We need better book covers, now more than ever.

Lol thanks for the update!

RIP Pierre Joris, translator extraordinaire.

Episode 3 of the #WindhamCampbellPrizes x @lithub Podcast series is out now!

Windham-Campbell Prizes Michael Kelleher and award-winning writer Dionne Brand as they discuss Seeing, the sequel to Blindness by Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago.

Listen now: link.chtbl.com/wcpodcast

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I was listening to an Ashbery reading from the early 60s where he sounds a bit like Vincent Gallo in Buffalo '66.

I love how so many of the New American poets in their speaking retained their regional accents: Ginsberg (New Jersey), Ashbery (Western New York), John Wieners and Robert Creeley (Massachusetts), Diane DiPrima (Brooklyn)

Someone's random list inside a library book

Episode 2 of the new #WindhamCampbellPrizes x @lithub Podcast series is out now!

Join Director of the Windham-Campbell Prizes Michael Kelleher and Olivia Laing as they discuss ''Vilette'', Charlotte Brontë's final novel.

Listen now: link.chtbl.com/wcpodcast

Missed it last week? Check out the latest episode of the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast to hear André Alexis and @michaelkelleher.bsky.social discuss Martha Baillie’s There Is No Blue.
https://buff.ly/42IpeKh

All bookstores should have one of these

Thrillers!

Before there was Amazon