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The 2017 ArtsEtc Independence Reading List, The 2017 IndyList

The 2017 IndyList

THE ArtsEtc Independence Reading List turns seven this year! The IndyList, as we like to call it, is a selection of 12 Barbadian books to…

Robert Edison Sandiford·October 31, 2017
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Winning Words shows diversity of Bajan Lit

Terry Connolly’s cover photo, Soon Ripe, suggests the many branches of Bajan Lit. It won gold at NIFCA. WELCOME to the latest edition of…

Robert Edison Sandiford·August 23, 2017
ArtsEtc Editor Linda M. Deane with top 2016 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Kerry Belgrave.  Between them is then Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados DeLisle Worrell, January 2017.

Kerry Belgrave 2016 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

ArtsEtc Editor and 2nd-place Colly winner Linda M. Deane with top awardee Kerry Belgrave. Between them is then Governor of the Central Bank…

Robert Edison Sandiford·April 24, 2017
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“Occasional Writer” Wins 2016 Carolle Bourne Award

MARTIN M. BOYCE, a self-styled occasional writer, is the winner of The Carolle Bourne Award for Literary Innovation for 2016. Boyce won…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 13, 2016
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A Review of Island Wings: A Memoir

During the 50s and 60s—after the Second World War, before independence—hundreds of Barbadians left their island home for countries like…

Robert Edison Sandiford·December 1, 2016
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A Review of In the Castle of my Skin

GEORGE LAMMING has achieved what few in this country would have thought possible. His novel In the Castle of my Skin elevates our common…

Karen Lord·November 30, 2016
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A Review of Noughts & Crosses

The cultural critic Imran Siddiquee, writing for The Atlantic, once commented, “If the United States were to truly transform into a…

Jasmine Sealy·November 30, 2016
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A Review of Anatomy of a Scream

The peculiar dichotomy that is evident in Anatomy of a Scream (Pudding House Press, 30pp, 2007) suggests there is a beauty and redemption…

Mark Jason Welch·November 27, 2016
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A Review of Fairfield: The Last Sad Stories of G. Brandon Sisnett

What Robert Edison Sandiford gives us in his latest short story collection, Fairfield, is the apparent restoration and enhancement of…

Racquel Griffith·November 27, 2016
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The 2016 IndyList

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

Robert Edison Sandiford·November 27, 2016
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Austin Clarke: Sail on, Prince of Tides

Photo Copyright © by Richard Lautens/Toronto Star Yesterday, June 26, 2016, Bajan-Canadian novelist Austin “Tom” Clarke passed away in…

Robert Edison Sandiford·June 27, 2016
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Allison Cadogan: 2015 Colly Winner

IT WAS three times a charm for Allison Cadogan. On January 9, the Barbadian writer won the 2015 Frank Collymore Literary Award for her…

Robert Edison Sandiford·January 24, 2016