Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org

Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org

Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
The festival’s signature closing event will include short readings by all eight of this year’s prize recipients.
This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, Danielle McLaughlin (Ireland) and David Chariandy (Canada); in nonfiction, Raghu Karnad (India) and Rebecca Solnit (United States); in poetry, Ishion Hutchinson (Jamaica) and Kwame Dawes (Ghana/Jamaica/United States); in drama, Young Jean Lee (United States) and Patricia Cornelius (Australia).

Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org
First, above all, I live forever. And
thereafter redecorate paradise
in the majesty of the Roof Nightclub,
DJ Lucifer, at predawn hours
terrifies the floorboards to give way to
Apollyon’s abyss, reflecting scarred light
on the wall. The mirror alive with tremors…

Part of the 2019 Windham-Campbell Festival: https://windhamcampbell.org