Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

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.…

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…

[R]evolution[s]: The ArtsEtc Anthology of Barbadian Literature

[to edit all] [R]evolution[s]: The ArtsEtc Anthology of Barbadian Literature For Richard Allsopp, a caretaker of our language, and —.…

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"…

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…

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…

News

Bridgetown Literary Bus Tour

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…