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 appeared in the anthology So Many Islands, edited by Nicholas Laughlin with Nailah Folami Imoja.  Photo Copyright © 2018 by the Central Bank of Barbados.

ALTHOUGH the Frank Collymore Literary Award is Barbados' most lucrative prize for unpublished manuscripts, many entrants have gone on to have their works published.  Here is a list of those Colly winners and their entries, going back to the start of the competition in 1998.  A title in parentheses (as ...) indicates a manuscript's title in competition if different in publication.   

Zoanne Evans, The Song Within Me, Honourable Mention, 1998 (independently published, 1999)

Dana Gilkes, Anatomy of a Scream, 1^st, 1999 (Pudding House Publications, 2007)

Winston Farrell, Bustin’ the Blues, Joint 3^rd, 1999 (independently published, 2011)

Esther Phillips, When Ground Doves Fly, Joint 1^st, 2001 (Ian Randle Publishers, 2003)

Carolle Bourne, Saraband, 2^nd, 2001 (The Independent Press, 2003)

Cherie Jones, The Burning Bush Women, 2^nd, 2003 (Peepal Tree Press, 2004)

Robert Edison Sandiford, Sand for Snow, 4^th, 2003 (DC Books, 2003)

Esther Phillips, The Stone Gatherer (as Nexus), 2^nd, 2004 (Peepal Tree Press, 2009)

Sonia S. Williams, This Too Will Pass (as The Passing), Honourable Mention, 2004 (Caribbean Chapters Publishing, 2014)

Linda M. Deane, Cutting Road Blues, 1^st, 2005 (The Independent Press, in press)

Robert Edison Sandiford, The Tree of Youth (as The Next Time), 2^nd, 2005 (DC Books, 2005)

Nailah Folami Imoja, Colourblind, Joint 3^rd, 2005 (independently published, 2012)

Thom Cross, The Scottish Swimmer of Colombia (as The Swimmer), Honourable Mention, 2005 (Caribbean Chapters Publishing, 2012)

Yvonne Weekes, Volcano, 1^st, 2004 (Peepal Tree Press, 2006)

Kamau Brathwaite, Missa Solemnis, 1^st, 2006 (Poui no. xi, extracts, 2010)

Alvin Cummins, The Royal Palms are Dying, Prime Minister's Award, 2007 (Caribbean Chapters Publishing, 2008)

Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo, 1^st, 2008 (Small Beer Press, 2010)

Thomas Armstrong, Of Water and Rock, 2^nd, 2008 (DC Books, 2010)

Karen Lord, The Best of All Possible Worlds, 1^st, 2009 (Del Rey, 2013)

Glenville Lovell, On De Block, Joint 2^nd, 2010 (independently published, 2018)

Anthony Kellman, South Eastern Stages, 3^rd, 2011 (Peepal Tree Press, 2012)

Kamau Brathwaite, The Lazarus Poems, 1^st, 2013 (Wesleyan University Press, 2017)

Ronald A. Williams, The Dark Land (as The Memoir), 2^nd, 2013 (independently published, 2016)

Christine Barrow, Black Dogs and the Colour Yellow, Honourable Mention, 2016 (Peepal Tree Press, 2018)

Sonia S. Williams, Embodied Knowings (as Her Bald Head Luminous), 3^rd, 2017 (Caribbean Chapters Publishing, 2019)

Claudia Clarke, CircleSquare, 2^nd, 2019 (independently published, 2023)

Zoanne Evans, Tameisha's Adventure (as Tameisha's Lesson), Prime Minister's Award, 2020 (Caribbean Reads, 2023)

Ronald A. Williams, The Fall of Autumn Leaves, 2^nd, 2021 (independently published, 2021)

Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Shabine and Other Stories, 2^nd, 2021 (The University of the West Indies Press, 2021)

Peter Laurie, The House that Disappeared, 1^st, 2022 (independently published, 2023)

Last Modified: October 25, 2023