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Two Decades of
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Explore over 403 stories we've published since 2003 — poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and reportage.

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Fiction

Winning Words: The Night You Left

I WATCHED YOUR BACK until I squeezed a mere figment of you with my eyes. I wanted, too, more than anything, to go town with you, but mummy…

Tammi Browne-Bannister·December 11, 2022
Photo by Richard D. Venne, Vermont, USA, November 2022.
Blog

So This Is Christmas?

“Good morning from Vermont.” Photo Copyright © 2022 by Richard D. Venne. “You say you’ve been twice a wife, And you’re through with life,…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 10, 2022
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News

In Golden Square: A Photo Essay

Barbadian poet and performer Winston Farrell has been hosting poetry pop-ups in Golden Square, Bridgetown, throughout 2022. Linda M. Deane,…

Linda M. Deane·December 7, 2022
Philip Nanton, the other man in the black hat. October 2022.
Studios

Philip Nanton: Seeing Slantwise

THERE WAS FIRST a concern to please others, especially my colonial Caribbean primary school teacher. The context was the hard wooden school…

Robert Edison Sandiford·October 17, 2022
The Translator by Tre Greaves, April 2020. A hero of The Gathering.
Features

Freedom: The Class of 2021

Taking on the world in leaps and bounds: The Translator, a COVID-19 hero of The Gathering. Artwork Copyright © 2020 by Tré Greaves.…

Robert Edison Sandiford·October 17, 2022
Eric Lewis, madder than most over the proposed extension to 72 from 67 of Barbados' retirement age.
Blog

Bajans Not So Retiring

Madder than that. Entertainer and social commentator Eric Lewis is among the thousands of Barbadians upset over government’s suggestion to…

Robert Edison Sandiford·September 8, 2022
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Fiction

An Excerpt from The Fall of Autumn Leaves

Chapter Seven Cameron leaned back, reading the last sentence. He smiled and then immediately frowned. Looking around the apartment with its…

Ronald A. Williams·September 8, 2022
Ronald A. Williams, the author of The Fall of Autumn Leaves, top winner of the 2021 Frank Collymore Literary Award.
News

Ronald A. Williams 2021 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

2021 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Ronald A. Williams. Photo Copyright © 2022 by Ronald A. Williams. Reprinted from…

Robert Edson Sandiford·September 8, 2022
Past Issues

No. 1: The Jazz-Art Connection

Published: March/April 2003 Theme: The Art-Jazz Connection Cover: Prediction, oil on canvas by Ras Akyem Ramsay. Part of the National…

June 20, 2022
Art by Gary Jerome Jones, pen and colour markers on card stock, 2022.
Poetry

Two Poems

Subconscious Individuality A rocking horse soothes the internal rhythm There's only so much I can do with the disturbances and the…

Gary Jerome Jones·June 8, 2022
House in Castries, Saint Lucia. Photo Copyright © 2022 by John Robert Lee.
Poetry

Poems for Kendel @ 70

A City Affair (for the Saint Lucian poets) “Don’t you know I love you but am hopeless at fixing the rain?” – Derek Walcott We meet on the…

John Robert Lee·June 6, 2022
George Lamming, the celebrated Barbadian author of the classic novel In the Castle of My Skin, died June 4, 2022, just four days shy of his ninety-fifth birthday, in Barbados.
Blog

George Lamming, Going Home

George Lamming, 1927-2022. Photo Copyright © 2002 by Ronnie Carrington. HOW IMPORTANT is a book, any book? To any one person, people, time,…

Robert Edison Sandiford·June 5, 2022
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