The 2025 Windham-Campbell literary festival offers three full days of free public events
From Sept. 16 to Sept. 19, the annual Windham-Campbell Prizes Festival will be under way across campus. All events are free and open to the public. Check the full schedule for the daily events, times, and locations.
This year’s eight prize recipients—awarded in four literary genres—will be on site in various locations to share their work, engage in conversation, and celebrate reading and writing with members of the Yale and New Haven communities.
The 2025 prizewinners are fiction writers Anne Enright (Ireland) and Sigrid Nunez (United States); poets Anthony V. Capildeo (Trinidad and Tobago/Scotland) and Tongo Eisen-Martin (United States); nonfiction writers Rana Dasgupta (United Kingdom) and Patricia J. Williams (United States); and playwrights Matilda Feyisayo Ibini (United Kingdom) and Roy Williams (United Kingdom).
Since 2013, the Windham-Campbell Prizes, administered by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, have been awarded to more than 100 English-language writers from around the world. Established through a gift from the writer Donald Windham, in memory of his life partner, actor and writer Sandy Campbell, the prize is one of the largest and most prestigious literary awards in the world.
Read about each of the 2025 prize recipients and all past prizewinners. Read the winners’ reactions to receiving news of the award in Yale News.
The Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell Papers, held at Beinecke Library, contain more than 70 boxes of writings, correspondence, photographs, artwork, and other papers by or relating to Windham and Campbell.
—Deborah Cannarella
