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    Get to Know the 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winners

    by Literary Hub Sep 12, 2017 0 minutes

    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…”

    This years winners, are:

    FICTION

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

    NONFICTION

    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

    Originally published in Literary Hub.

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