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Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

Explore over 447 stories we've published since 2003 — poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and reportage.

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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 Deane·October 15, 2024
The words 4 Love of Barbados against a depiction of ocean and shoreline with the logos of ArtsEtc, the Commonwealth Foundation and the Summer Storyteller above (Background image: Izora Deane Devonish)
News

Storytelling with YOU at the heart

Who you? What part you from? How you feel bout life in this here Buhbayduss? These Kamau-inspired questions form the essence of ArtsEtc’s…

Linda M Deane·September 16, 2024
Past Issues

No. 4: The All-Movie Issue

Published: Sept/Oct 2003 Theme: The All-Movie Issue Cover: An original, mixed media depiction of film in the Caribbean by Barbadian artist…

August 30, 2024
ArtsEtc
Fiction

An Excerpt from The Rainbow Window

I Place and People, 1945 THE ISLAND RESTS like a gigantic prehistoric fish, tail fin stretching into the tempestuous waves of the Atlantic,…

Christine Barrow·August 22, 2024
Christine Barrow, top Frank Collymore Literary Award winner for 2023.
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Christine Barrow 2023 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

2023 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Christine Barrow. Photo Copyright © 2024 by Christine Barrow. Christine Barrow adjudged Best…

Robert Edison Sandiford·August 22, 2024
Saint Lucian poet John Robert Lee, 2024.
Studios

John Robert Lee: Just What Is

Congratulations again on the publication of, well, all three of your books in the last five years, the most recent being IKONS (caps…

Robert Edison Sandiford·July 30, 2024
Cover of The Philosophy & Opinions of the $2 Philosopher!! (2024) by Nala
News

Labours Uphill: A Review of The Philosophy & Opinions of the $2 Philosopher!!

NALA CAN'T HELP BUT CREATE. The multi-hyphenate Barbadian (actor, writer, painter, and playwright) has turned a series of cartoons created…

Khalil Goodman·July 5, 2024
Sarah Venable (second from left) and Sonia Williams (second from right) at Sarah's birthday gathering, December 2023.
Blog

Living, Loving and Leaving this Hyphenated Life

Sarah Venable (second from left) and Sonia Williams (second from right) and friends: celebrating the livity. Photo Copyright © 2024 by…

Sarah Venable·June 29, 2024
The cover of the first edition of Down Danesbury Gap: Echoes of Memory (2013) by New York-based Barbadian author Austin Yearwood.
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Foremost Black Rockian: A Review of Down Danesbury Gap

AUSTIN YEARWOOD TAKES HIS READERS by the hand through his childhood Down Danesbury Gap—that “non-descript track of unpaved road”—past the…

Christine Barrow·June 20, 2024
ArtsEtc
News

A Review of Volcano

THIS SLIM VOLUME calls itself a memoir of a woman whose life was affected by the volcanic eruption of Montserrat’s Soufrière in 1995.…

Vaneisa Baksh·March 31, 2024
ArtsEtc
Poetry

Sonnets for Anthony Joseph

In Gaza or My Li'l House By Linda M. Deane and Brian Franklin Wuhloss! Lookuh dis life, how it does change ’tween joy and pain, peace and…

Brian Franklin and Yvonne Weekes·March 31, 2024
Alleluia Porkchops by The Gap Theatre, created and directed by L. Amanda Cumberbatch, 2014.
Blog

The Truth about Bajan Theatre

Playbill from Alleluia Pork Chops. Adapted from the work of Barbadian writers Kamau Brathwaite, Austin Clarke, Timothy Callender, and John…

Ayesha Gibson-Gill·March 31, 2024
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