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

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Saint Lucian children's author Dawn French and Peanut, 2022.
Features

The Light of Dawn

Saint Lucian children's author Dawn French and her good friend Peanut. AMONG THE JEWELS that make up the Caribbean archipelago is Saint…

Zoanne Evans·May 5, 2022
Weights & Measures by Linda M. Deane, April 2022.
Blog

Voting for Real: The Weight and Measure of an X

What's the worth of an X? A woman's vote? A man's life? Our better world? Illustration Copyright © 2022 by Linda M. Deane. I HAVE BEEN…

Linda M. Deane·April 25, 2022
Unreal pearls.
Fiction

Those Are Pearls

INSIDE THE PRISON was warm. Adrian sat facing a grizzled man through a cracked plastic screen. The old man looked a vision of Adrian…

Brian Franklin·March 14, 2022
Russian protests against Putin's invasion of Ukraine, February 2022.
Blog

When Sovereignty Is Not a Choice

Protests in Russia against Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo Copyright © 2022 by The Punch. SOME BARBADIANS have criticized our…

Robert Edison Sandiford·February 26, 2022
ArtsEtc
News

21 Quick Facts about Bajan Lit

1. The Frank Collymore Literary Award, launched in 1998, is the most lucrative writing prize in Barbados, with the top “Colly” winner…

Robert Edison Sandiford·February 4, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Fiction

Winning Words: A Bajan Love Story

“TYRONE, YOU HEAR DAT?” He grumbled and turned his back to her. “Tyrone,” she hissed again. “Get up, somebody outside de house.”…

Racquel Williams·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Poetry

Winning Words: Resurrection 1

No kites up in the air this year No singing angels’ majestic climb No raging bulls No dancing round-kite Square-kite Box-kite Not a…

Winston Farrell·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Poetry

Winning Words: If Only on the Outside/If Only on the Inside

If only on the outside I am fat so I cannot accept that I am worthy I know deep down my bulging belly labels me obese and I see my heavier…

Gale E. Weithers·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Poetry

Winning Words: Exhaustive Listening

So this dumbass asked me the other day “Why does Black History Month always have to be about Death and Rosa Parks and Malcolm X and MLK?…

Cyndi Celeste Marshall·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Poetry

Winning Words: Dear White People

Dear white people… I’m not here to fight, I’m not here to bargain, I’m not here to scream. You’re here to listen. The place you call home,…

Anderson Devonish·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
News

Latest Winning Words Focuses on “Our Uncertain Times”

….Like the world, and its words, are on fire. This edition's cover is again by Kai Miller. The following is from the back cover of The…

Robert Edison Sandiford·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Features

Winning Words: Heinz 57, Maybe?

MANY BARBADIANS consider me white. At CBC, the late Terry Mayers said no matter what I do or how I think and feel I’ll always be treated as…

Ian Bourne·January 24, 2022
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