ArtsEtc

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Two Decades of
Caribbean Writing

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

403 stories

The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Features

Winning Words: On Race and Whiteness from the Context of Barbados #1

IN THIS GLOBAL #BlackLivesMatter moment, we are seeing a shift in conversations about race and it feels like a tipping point. White people…

Annalee Davis·January 24, 2022
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2019/2020, Cover.
Features

Winning Words: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister, Re: #NelsonMustGo

In plenty and in time of need When this fair land was young Our brave forefathers sowed the seed From which our pride is sprung A pride…

Alex Downes·January 24, 2022
The 2022 IndyList, Partial (2021) by Robert Edison Sandiford.
News

The 2022 IndyList

NO, YOU HAVEN'T missed a thing. We've shifted the presentation of the ArtsEtc Independence Reading List to the top of the upcoming year…

Robert Edison Sandiford·January 13, 2022
My patriotic, festive TV stand, Christ Church, Barbados, December 2021.
Blog

Republican Reflections

My patriotic, festive TV stand, Christ Church, Barbados, December 2021. Photo Copyright © 2022 by Robert Edison Sandiford. IT’S BEEN YEARS…

Robert Edison Sandiford·January 10, 2022
Barbadian Poet Linda M. Deane, July 2021.
News

Linda M. Deane 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

2020 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Linda M. Deane. Photo Copyright © 2021. THE 23rd FRANK COLLYMORE LITERARY AWARDS were presented…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 6, 2021
ArtsEtc
Blog

Dear Mia, come lewwe talk…

Table talk, everything in one. Illustration Copyright © 2021 by Izora Devonish. DEAR MIA, May I call you Mia? Madam Prime Minister? PM? Not…

Robert Edison Sandiford·August 18, 2021
Horace I Goddard, February 10,1947-November 20, 2020.
Blog

Passing On, Lifting Up: Remembering Horace I. Goddard

Montreal writer, educator and community activist Horace I. Goddard had a commitment to community first nurtured in Barbados. Photo…

Robert Edison Sandiford·August 2, 2021
ArtsEtc
Poetry

A Selection from An Ocean Away: My Mother, Smiling: Tales of Migration and Memory

My mother names me She marries the lion and moves a degree less north. The heavens tempt her with smorgasbords of grey – battleship, cloud,…

Linda M. Deane·July 21, 2021
Cherie Jones, the author or How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, published in February 2021.
News

The Beautiful and the Authentic: A Review of How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

Photo Copyright © 2021 by Hachette Book Group. CHERIE JONES' DEBUT NOVEL, How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House, is set in an unnamed…

Ronald A. Williams·May 12, 2021
World Press Freedom Day Poster, May 3, 2021.
Blog

Vigilance: An Editorial for World Press Freedom Day

UNESCO poster reminds us there's still work to be done to protect freedom of speech and journalists, maybe now more than ever. RESPONSIBLE.…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 4, 2021
American poet Amanda Gorman reading at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden January 20, 2021.
Blog

Letters to Foreign Friends: A Good Day for Poets

Cloaked in hope: American poet Amanda Gorman reading at the Inauguration of President Joe Biden, January 20, 2021. Photo Copyright © 2021…

Robert Edison Sandiford·February 12, 2021
Fiction

Winning Words: How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House 

Chapter 4 THEY ARE ADMIRING Baby that night everything changes. They are quietly claiming things about her to the soundtrack of Adan’s…

Cherie Jones·February 1, 2021
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