Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib amongst 8 winners of $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes.

Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, fiction writers Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan and playwright Christopher Chen are amongst this 12 months’s recipients of Windham-Campbell Prizes, for which winners every obtain $175,000 money awards
NEW YORK — Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, fiction writers Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan and playwright Christopher Chen are amongst this 12 months’s recipients of Windham-Campbell Prizes, for which winners every obtain $175,000 money awards.
The prizes are designed to allow artists to “give attention to their inventive apply impartial of economic considerations,” prize officers introduced Tuesday. The opposite winners are cultural critic Christina Sharpe, dramatist Sonya Kelly and poets M. NourbeSe Philip and Jen Hatfield.
“Annually, I really feel extremely honored to name the eight recipients: to be the messenger delivering the solely surprising and life-changing information that they’ve been awarded $175,000. It’s clear — now, greater than ever — how difficult working within the inventive industries, around the globe, may be,” prize director Michael Kelleher mentioned in an announcement.
The awards had been established in 2011 at Yale College endowed by the estates of author Donald Windham and actor Sandy Campbell. Earlier honorees embrace playwright Michael R. Jackson, critic-novelist Stanley Crouch and novelist Percival Everett.