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Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

Explore over 446 stories we've published since 2003 — poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and reportage.

446 stories

Ann Rudder, Grande Salle, Thomas Adams Financial Centre, Barbados, 2010.
Studios

Ann Rudder: “Before I’m Dead”

ANN RUDDER wants me to talk to her before she’s dead. I’m not so sure why. Anyone who knows Ann knows she’s a force of nature. “Call me,…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 12, 2018
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Blog

NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2018—Day by Day

Writers Shakirah Bourne & Brian Franklin along with AE Editor Robert Edison Sandiford: only part of the Bajan Posse @ Bocas 8 in…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 11, 2018
ArtsEtc
News

Anthony Kellman’s Tracing JaJa Wins 2018 Casa de las Americas Prize

You can also read more about Kellman's Tracing JaJa and 2018's Casa de las Américas Prize honourable mentions for Tell My Mother I Gone to…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 28, 2018
Funeral of St Lucian writer Gandolph St Clair, March 2018.
Poetry

“one of us has died”

In memoriam: Gandolph St. Clair, 1951-2018

John Robert Lee·March 28, 2018
Chadwick Boseman as Black Panther (Marvel Studios, 2017), on the throne in Wakanda.
Blog

Moving on up to Wakanda with Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman on the throne as T’Challa, King of Wakanda—the Black Panther. Photo Copyright © 2018 by Marvel Studios. "WAKANDA FOREVER!"…

Ronald A. Williams·March 15, 2018
ArtsEtc
News

Heather Barker, Sonia S. Williams among 2017 Colly Winners

THE 2017 JUDGES for the 20th Annual Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award were DeCarla Applewhaite, Professor Jane Bryce, Ayesha…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 15, 2018
Mustardseed doing Zeno Obi Constance's Duelling Voices at Daphne Joseph-Hackett Theatre, January 2018.
Studios

Mustardseed Productions: Two for Two

IF YOU ASK ME how many times I’ve been in the Daphne Joseph-Hackett Theatre since it reopened in August 2017 and been blown away by a…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 15, 2018
Comics & Cartoons

Skool Daze, March 2018

Aguinaldo Belgrave·March 6, 2018
Winners of the 2017 Frank Collymore Literary Awards with the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados.
Blog

Deane’s List

Welcome to Deane’s List. Mostly about the literary arts in and outside Barbados, but also about other art forms and issues shaping culture…

Linda M. Deane·January 31, 2018
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Studios

The Barbados Arts Council: Our Very Own at 60

THE TIME HAS COME to tell the story of the Barbados Arts Council. The Barbados Arts Council (BAC) was established on December 6, 1957, as a…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 22, 2017
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Blog

A Trip Well Made: for A.N., Karl and William Seymour

Barbadian spoken-word artist Adrian Green: following in the tradition of pioneering Bajan writers A.N. Forde, W.S. Arthur and Karl Sealy.…

Zoanne Evans·November 30, 2017
The National Stadium, Barbados.  Runners before the starter's pistol.  Photo by Steve "SD" Devonish, 2017.
Features

On This Hideout Faintly, A Beating of Drums

Runners before the starter's pistol. But where are the drums? Photo Copyright © 2017 by SD. THIS RYHTHM is set before the collapse and…

Linda M. Deane·November 30, 2017