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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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11.04.2025 12:26 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

"There is nothing to do
For our liberation, except wait in the horror of it." —John Ashbery

05.04.2025 01:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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!

28.03.2025 17:39 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

YES!

28.03.2025 21:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🙏

24.03.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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...

24.03.2025 20:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I get paid to do this.

24.03.2025 20:20 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1

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.

news.yale.edu/2025/03/24/e...

24.03.2025 19:42 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

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

www.thestage.co.uk/news/roy-wil...

24.03.2025 19:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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).

www.thebookseller.com/news/anne-en...

24.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘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

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

24.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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…

lithub.com/here-are-the...

24.03.2025 19:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

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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24.03.2025 19:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

24.03.2025 19:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

24.03.2025 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

03.03.2025 02:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

02.03.2025 21:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We need better book covers, now more than ever.

27.02.2025 23:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Lol thanks for the update!

27.02.2025 23:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

RIP Pierre Joris, translator extraordinaire.

27.02.2025 14:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

26.02.2025 18:01 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

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24.02.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

24.02.2025 04:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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)

24.02.2025 02:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Someone's random list inside a library book

18.02.2025 21:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

12.02.2025 10:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

05.02.2025 17:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

All bookstores should have one of these

02.02.2025 20:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thrillers!

02.02.2025 16:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Before there was Amazon

31.01.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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