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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Apr 8
    The Windham-Campbell Prizes were founded on the desire to celebrate literary achievement. Since 2013, we've awarded the finest writers in the English language with unrestricted grants of $175,000 each so they can do what they do best—across fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Mar 30, 2022
    We’re celebrating by giving away 3 sets of our @yalepress WHY I WRITE series: DEVOTION by @pattismith, INADVERTENT by Karl Ove Knausgaard, FOR NOW by @leileenal, and OF SOLIDS AND SURDS by @SamuelRDelany1. Retweet for a chance to win! T&Cs apply: tinyurl.com/5ap6dsz6
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Sep 1, 2021
    Registration is open! Visit the festival home page for a one-time sign up that will give you access to nine weeks of FREE festival events, including the closing keynote by US Poet Laureate, @joyharjo! Click here:matchboxvirtual.com/2021-windham-c…
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Nov 2, 2021
    Next week, US Poet Laureate @JoyHarjo brings the house down in our final festival event, the 2021 Windham-Campbell Lecture. The book will be published next fall by @YaleBooks. Do not miss! tinyurl.com/cm93m9v9
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Sep 29, 2022
    We were so happy to host the brilliant and courageous Tsitsi Dangarembga (@EfieZethu) @Yale last week, and are equally dismayed at the unjust verdict rendered against her in #Zimbabwe, clearly meant to chill expressions of dissent. She's free now, and ok, but the fight goes on!
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Mar 22, 2021
    Congratulations to the 2021 recipients!
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Apr 2, 2024
    Congratulations to the 2024 #WindhamCampbellPrizes recipients! 🎉 Watch the full announcement video at windhamcampbell.org
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Oct 18, 2016
    Patti Smith delivers the Windham-Campbell Lecture (clip) @yalepress will publish a full, expanded version in 2017! vimeo.com/187818336?ref=…
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Jun 18, 2024
    "We don't write alone. We don't think alone." Christina Sharpe is celebrated for her work – such as 'Ordinary Notes', a New Yorker and New York Times Book of the Year – which explores the complex relationship between language and black existence, in which she fuses archival
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Mar 29, 2022
    And the recipients are...
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Oct 14, 2016
    "Because a lifetime as a woman has taught you to listen..." Helen Garner on aging. @text_publishing @freemanreads vimeo.com/185325165?ref=…
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Aug 12, 2020
    Folks, we've got news! There will be no festival this fall, but we will still celebrate our prize recipients with the annual 'Why I Write' lecture by the legendary @SamuelRDelany1! Watch on our website September 16, 5 PM.
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Oct 20, 2016
    Als, Garner, Hadley, Hungerford: “Good Girls, Bad Girls, White Girls, and Clever Girls” vimeo.com/186007304?ref=… @newyorker @text_publishing
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    Windham-Campbell Prizes
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    Mar 7, 2018
    Congrats: @Sarah_Bakewell, @cathyparkhong, @jstheater, @suzanloriparks, @olivialanguage, Lorna Goodison, Lucas Hnath, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi!