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Sharma Taylor (second from left), 2019 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner.

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
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Winning Words…And Saving Lives

Casting out again. This edition's cover is by Kai Miller. A version of the following speech was presented by ArtsEtc Editor Robert Edison…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 30, 2020
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Missing Paule Marshall: A Tribute

Paule Marshall, 1929-2019. Photo Copyright © The Associated Press. “…Thus, a complex body of work was narrowed down to its racial themes,…

Margaret D. Gill·December 1, 2019
Heather Barker, Second Place Winner, Frank Collymore Literary Award 2018.

Frank Collymore Literary Award Winners In Print

Heather Barker, second-place winner of the 2017 Frank Collymore Literary Award for The Plundering, a collection of stories. The title story…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 30, 2019
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A Review of Watching Out for Mummy

Norma Meek sure knows how to pack a bariffle of pre-teen troubles into 150 pages. In Watching Out for Mummy, which the author wrote twelve…

Linda M. Deane·November 30, 2019
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The 2019 IndyList

THE ArtsEtc Independence Reading List is now nine years old! The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a selection of 12 Barbadian books to…

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 30, 2019
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Truth She Wrote — A Found Poem and Collected Thoughts on Toni Morrison

Barbadian writers share their thoughts and feelings on Toni Morrison. ArtsEtc lands the found poem "Truth She Wrote" in the process. Read…

Linda Deane·August 17, 2019
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Mapping Barbados’ LitScape

MAPPING BARBADOS’ LITSCAPE is an ArtsEtc project to track and document Barbados’ very rich and diverse literary tradition. At our house,…

Robert Edison Sandiford·June 27, 2019
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Hazel Simmons-McDonald 2018 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

THE TOP SPOT at the Frank Collymore Literary Awards went to Hazel Simmons McDonald on January 5, 2019. Simmons-McDonald, a retired…

Robert Edison Sandiford·March 24, 2019
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A Review of Frontiers of the Caribbean

Compelling and emphatic language toned down by academic speak. A stitched-together structure that is both focused and diffuse. The folk…

Robert Edison Sandiford·October 31, 2018
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A Review of The Thunder Beneath Us

In Nicole Blades' second novel, The Thunder Beneath Us, a talented but self-sabotaging writer is forced to grapple with her painful past as…

Publishers Weekly·October 31, 2018
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A Review of New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean

The Caribbean has a powerful, modern tradition of fantastic literature that’s on full display in this anthology of original fiction by…

Publishers Weekly·October 31, 2018