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News

Charmaine “Nailah Folami Imoja” Gill 2024 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

2024 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Charmaine “Nailah Folami Imoja” Gill. Video Copyright © 2024 by the Central Bank of Barbados.…

Robert Edison Sandiford·July 31, 2025
Fiction

An Excerpt from Jamaica’s Exam

WHEN I GROW UP…. I want to be a surgeon or a barrister or an architect. Failing that, I’ll settle for being a journalist or at the very…

Charmaine (Nailah Folami Imoja) Gill·July 31, 2025
Studios

The Bridgetown Literary Tours – 2025

Winston Farrell "IX" from Barefoot on Ice Linda M. Deane, The Summer Storyteller "We Tek He Down" (Essay version) Anthony "Mighty Gabby"…

Linda M. Deane·June 21, 2025
Past Issues

No. 16: Art Education II

Published: Sept/Oct 2005 Theme: Art Education II Cover: Eleven Plus by Hartley Alleyne, National Art Collection. (Used by permission of the…

May 31, 2025
Sharing lessons in how to live. Ralph Ellison in Harlem in 1966. Photograph Copyright © by David Attie/Getty.
Blog

A Turn in the Road

Sharing lessons in how to live. Ralph Ellison in Harlem in 1966. Photograph Copyright © by David Attie/Getty. A gun in hand knows no…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 31, 2025
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News

Bridgetown Literary Bus Tour

Robert Edison Sandiford·January 27, 2025
Cover of Cutting Road Blues: A Narrative by Linda M. Deane (due out August 2025)
Poetry

CUTTING ROAD BLUES: A NARRATIVE

In time, the mulberry tree becomes a silk gown. — Chinese proverb. In 2004, Linda M. Deane gathered together a bunch of "tamarind-tongue…

Linda M. Deane·January 7, 2025
Past Issues

No. 5: Where Is the Next Generation of Barbadian Novelists?

Published: Nov/Dec 2003 Theme: Where Is the Next Generation of Barbadian Novelists? Cover: Original mixed media portrait of Barbadian…

December 27, 2024
Spice of Life - a perfect venue for 4 Love of Barbados over Independence weekend. [Photo: Vaughn Renwick]]
Blog

4 LOVE OF BARBADOS NO SMALL THING

Highlights from ArtsEtc’s 4 Love of Barbados event at Spice of Life, November 2024. Have you ever had an idea that started as a small…

ArtsEtc·December 17, 2024
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Poetry

If Barbados were a…

4 Love of Barbados, the project, has been up and running for just over a month. Here's a snippet of some of the responses gathered so far…

Linda M. Deane·October 21, 2024
Terracotta tile featuring the name Deane among other tiles with surnames also starting with the letter D on the Wall of Names, Golden Square Freedom Park, Bridgetown, Barbados. Photo by LM Deane
Poetry

Step back, step forward: A 4LB prose poem

ArtsEtc editor Linda M. Deane test-drives the 4 Love of Barbados prose poem template – to get an idea of what's possible and to encourage…

Linda M. Deane·October 21, 2024
Studios

ArtsEtc’s 20th anniversary in 20 – more or less!

* * * ArtsEtc has provided an extraordinary creative space for Caribbean writers to see our work featured, interrogated and in…

Linda M. Deane·October 15, 2024

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