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Trinidadian Lawrence Scott, the author of Leaving by Plane, Swimming Back Underwater, a collection of stories

Lawrence Scott’s Heart of Exile

“If crab don’t walk, he won’t get fat.” Old Bajan Proverb

Making Friends with Tom Clarke—and the Hangman

Sometimes, you've got to let that big blue-and-yellow bus pass if you want to reach your destination.

How Barbadians talk about race, Robert Edison Sandiford, blog, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess who’s still not coming to dinner, Or How Barbadians talk when they talk about race

Racquel Griffith, ArtsEtc's intrepid Lit major and editorial assistant on her current trip to South Korea: discovering just how much the world really has to offer.

Plot Twist: A Lit Degree is Just the Beginning

ArtsEtc's intrepid Lit major and editorial assistant on her current trip to South Korea: discovering just how much the world really has to offer.

Maps and the Bajan Writer

American-born writer Paule Marshall, whose themes about the Barbadian Diaspora in her 1959 novel Brown Girl, Brownstones still speak to readers today. But are Bajans listening? Photo Cop

Read2Me! participants at St Margaret’s Primary School, St John, Barbados

In and Out of Worlds

Pupils of St Margaret's Primary in St John show their best "lightning bolts." We would use Usain Bolt's trademark pose and other fun stretches to prepare for our storybook travels. (Photo: S. A.

One of the many faces of Charlie in this world, or just another woman preparing for the coming storm?

Doing the best we can for 2015

Whether in Bridgetown or New York, we all just do the best we can in bad times, don’t we? Here, a woman buys a case of water in preparation for a large winter storm in NYC January 26. Photo Copyr

I am not George Lamming

She’s not George Lamming, either, but Aprille Thomas won the Kamau Brathwaite Award for her poetry at NIFCA 2014.

Barbadian writer Timothy Callender (1946-1989) knew something about bad men.

The gas attendant who thought he was A. Hitler

Bridgetown Literary Tour at the home of Frank Appleton Collymore.

A WRITER’S VIEW OF BRIDGETOWN

IT WAS Bridgetown as we’d never seen it before—a uniquely literary view of this centuries-old city.

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