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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

Zoanne Evans, founder of Kids in Action, with her kids at Queen's Park.
Studios

Zoanne Evans: The Kids in Action Story

IT WAS twenty-three years ago that I stood before a class of students at the start of the Michaelmas term and breathlessly asked them what…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 31, 2020
Past Issues

Nos 23 & 24: Vanishing times ’n’ signs

Published: March/April 2008 Theme: Barbados…The Change Issue Cover: Stand-pipe 1, Vol. 1, Rono Weekes, 48” x 60”, acrylic on canvas, 2007…

May 21, 2020
ArtsEtc
Poetry

Castles

Keep watch over her. She will sculpt sandcastles on the shores of her mind And give way for the sun to solidify them. She will expect the…

Racquel Griffith·May 20, 2020
Long, quiet streets in Prince George's County, Maryland, during COVID-19 pandemic, May 2020.
Blog

The Trouble with Normal

Getting used to long streets that are emptier than usual…almost. Photos Copyright © 2020 by Ronald A. Williams. MY ROUTINE CHANGED. I used…

Ronald A. Williams·May 19, 2020
ArtsEtc
News

A Review of Ancestors

Brathwaite’s risky reinvention of his important trilogy—Mother Poem (1977), Sun Poem (1982) and X/Self (1987)—has much to offer old and new…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 19, 2020
shakeels_illustration_for_lindas_lockdown_poem_bigger_may_2020
Poetry

At a time when we’re afraid, when we’re petrified…COVID-19 Lockdown Poem #1

In aisle 5 (or was it 6?), this lithe chick—sneakers, leggings, thighs, thick bouncing braids—busts a funky hip-hop move while bending low…

Linda M. Deane·May 19, 2020
ArtsEtc
Poetry

Lockdown

Just when we were readying ourselves to fly Calamity coveted corner and crowd A world wind flu blown across borders Battling a curse of…

Winston Farrell·May 19, 2020
ArtsEtc
Poetry

Grief

It is easier to write a poem than to grieve, much easier to Google words to rhyme with grief, easier to create a clever line of toe-curling…

Yvonne Weekes·May 19, 2020
Sharma Taylor (second from left), 2019 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner.
News

Sharma Taylor 2019 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

Central Bank of Barbados Governor Cleviston Haynes with top 2019 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Sharma Taylor (second from left)…

Robert Edison Sandiford·May 19, 2020
The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology: 2017/2018, Cover.
Fiction

Winning Words: The Woman Whose Laugh Cracked the Sky

For Myrna, the Washerwoman WHEN MYRNA LAUGHED, the sound rumbled from somewhere deep inside her belly. People would pause at the…

Sharma Taylor·May 19, 2020
Cover of The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology 2017/2018.
Features

Winning Words: Ode to the Bajan Blackbirds

BARBADOS' FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY celebrations come and gone and nobody ain’t say yuh cat, yuh dog, ’bout we. Sometimes yuh have to wonder if…

Jeffrey Walcott·May 11, 2020
Cover of The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology 2017/2018.
Poetry

Winning Words: automated reality

Commuh families… yeah. Kam in. I ain’t pun dem gossip scenes, but u gaw know. Scatta-Out izza man whoz wait till need slow roast he head…

Kerry Belgrave·May 11, 2020
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