Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

Blog

Guess who’s still not coming to dinner, Or How Barbadians talk when they talk about race

Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton (backing) in the 1967 movie that first asked us to Guess Who’s…

Blog

Plot Twist: A Lit Degree is Just the Beginning

ArtsEtc's intrepid Lit major and editorial assistant on her current trip to South Korea: discovering just how much the world really has to…

News

Allison Cadogan: 2015 Colly Winner

IT WAS three times a charm for Allison Cadogan. On January 9, the Barbadian writer won the 2015 Frank Collymore Literary Award for her…

Fiction

The Economist, an excerpt

Benji, Fluffy and Squid IT WAS another Saturday morning. The side door closed and Mum was off to town as the theme tune of Julia struck up.…

Studios

Rodney Aarons-Massiah: Never Fold

Who are you? My name is Rodney Deran Aarons-Massiah. I am a spiritually aware 24-year-old currently residing at 3rd Avenue, Long Gap,…

Bajan Lit Radio Show on Q100.7

LISTEN OUT for a new and stimulating Barbadian radio show this January. What's That You're Reading? will be airing on Q100.7 on Wednesdays…

Poetry

New Year Poem

Sea at Gros Islet. Photo Copyright © 2015 by John Robert Lee. The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like…

Seeing is Believing

You might doubt their existence our brown hares are rarely seen. Yet I’ve heard their bewitching half-human early morning scream. One…

A REVIEW OF IN TIME OF NEED

It is so captivating when a writer lifts off the stereotypical veneer of a tourist-dependent society as ‘paradise’ and excavates the real…

A REVIEW OF NATIVES OF MY PERSON

By Jasmine Sealy Aboard the Reconnaissance, the vessel on which Natives of My Person takes place, a member of the crew, a young and…

Comics & Cartoons

Skool Daze, DECEMBER 2015

Desktop Muse

after Janneth Mornan-Green what school was selling she refused to learn by rote during history classes she sailed the Atlantic Ocean with…