Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

A Drought Ended

He would throw her across the room. Some men make sport of such things. I was warned to see and blind. Still, I watched through the window…

Hands Over Heart

Illustration Copyright © 2015 by Marlo Hunte. SMELL LEAKED OFF OF HER like disease. Those who sat close by held their bodies away,…

News

Freelance journalist wins 2015 Carolle Bourne Award

KWAME SLUSHER, a young freelance journalist currently residing in Australia, is the winner of The Carolle Bourne Award for Literary…

Blog

Maps and the Bajan Writer

American-born writer Paule Marshall, whose themes about the Barbadian Diaspora in her 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones still speak to…

News

The 2015 IndyList

For the fifth year running, ArtsEtc is pleased to bring its annual Independence Reading List. The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a…

Comics & Cartoons

MARCH 2011

Comics & Cartoons

Skool Daze, July 2015

News

Winning Words: MR GARRAWAY’S TRINKETS AND TREASURES

Anthology preview THE YEAR we lost Miss Mattie, there was an odd emptiness in the house. I was too young to understand as much about death…

Poetry

Winning Words: SPEAKING TOMAS

Anthology preview In the darkness after words, after the tempest of tantrums, the wind-whipped tears, accusation and recrimination sluicing…

Poetry

Winning Words: A MORNING WALK AT FOUL BAY

Anthology preview Long shadows ripple across the morning tracks walkers, runners and joggers men, women and children together and alone…

News

Winning Words: BIRD-TREES

Anthology preview WHEN I was younger I thought that coconut trees were like giant birds, their fronds gently flapping in the wind. I would…

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Winning Words: TURPENTINE AND STEW PANTY

Anthology preview The red herring odour of unwashed womanhood and blood hung in the air around the Smith’s house in the village next to the…