YC&E was honored to support the Windham Campbell Prizes Festival for the third consecutive year. This year’s festival, held from September 17th to 20th, celebrated eight exceptional writers from around the world with four days of exciting programming. Prizes were awarded across four categories: drama, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
The multi-day literary festival offered a robust lineup of free public events, including thought-provoking lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and performances from this year’s prize recipients. The celebration began with a lively welcome party on Cross Campus, complete with a live DJ, food trucks, and opportunities to mingle with the honorees. Throughout the event, attendees engaged with the prizewinners in conversations that explored diverse topics in literature, celebrating the power of the written word alongside the New Haven community.
Yale Conferences & Events managed the following tasks:
- Hotel accommodation and travel arrangements for the prizewinners, judges, and their guests.
- Audio-visual coordination with Yale Media Services, HB Live, and New England Light & Sound
- Booking and coordination of mobile book bike from Possible Futures.
- Payments and contract management for 13 vendors that YC&E did not directly oversee.
- Booking and coordination of DJ for kick-off party and backup musician.
- Permitting, coordination and setup for the Cross Campus tent, including facilities, grounds, and electrical requests.
- Catering, including Koffee Catering, Marcia Selden, The Luke, Heirloom, Taqueria Txcala, Sweet Cupcasions, Pitaziki, Big Green Pizza Truck, and water for speakers.
- Honoraria for speakers.
- Ordering, setup and breakdown of rentals for the Cross Campus tent, the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), and the Beinecke Rare Book Library.
- Space reservations at YUAG and the Beinecke
- Print materials with YPPS, including step and repeat, flags, a-frames, table tents, flyers, podium signs, notepads and pens, programs, t-shirts, and vitrines.
- University VIP coordination.
