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Saskatchewan-born poet Karen Solie is having a huge year. She won the the Governor General’s Literary Award, T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize.
Now, she adds the Windham-Campbell Prize, an anonymously judged literary award worth $175,000 US (approx. $238,928 Cdn), to her repertoire.
Established in 2013 and administered by Yale University, the prize annually honours eight fiction, nonfiction, drama and poetry writers who have been nominated in secret. The prize is given to support their writing.
Solie is recognized in the poetry category. Solie is originally from Moose Jaw, Sask., and now teaches at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She is also the Shaftesbury Creative Writer in Residence for Victoria College at the University of Toronto for 2025-2026.
Her most recent collection is Wellwater, which explores the intersection of cultural, economic and personal ideas of value, addressing aging, housing and environmental and economic crises.
Celebrating persistence in the natural world, Wellwater offers a message that hope is the only way to address these issues.
She is also one of the jurors for the CBC Poetry Prize, which is now accepting submissions until June 1 at 4:59 p.m. ET. The winner receives $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and their work is published on CBC Books.
The other Windham-Campbell Prize recipients are U.K. writer Gwendoline Riley and U.S. writer Adam Ehrlich Sachs for fiction, and Belgium writer Lucy Sante and Jamaican writer Kei Miller for drama, and U.S. writer Joyelle McSweeney for poetry.
The winners will received their awards in-person at a literary festival at Yale University in the fall.
The prizes were established by a gift from Donald Windham in memory of his partner Sandy Campbell.
Past Canadian recipients include poets Lorna Goodison, m. nourbeSe philip and Canisia Lubrin, novelists André Alexis, Dionne Brand and David Chariandy, playwright Hannah Moscovitch and nonfiction writers John Vaillant and Christina Sharpe.