Latest Winning Words Focuses on "Our Uncertain Times"

....Like the world, and its words, are on fire.  This edition's cover is again by Kai Miller.     

The following is from the back cover of The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology 2019/2020.

THESE ARE NOT normal times we’re in.  And they are changing fast.

The ArtsEtc NIFCA Winning Words Anthology 2019/2020 reflects a grand interruption of normalcy by responding to and documenting our uncertain times. The reality that is the COVID-19 pandemic meant that no National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) and, specifically, no NIFCA Literary Arts competition took place in 2020. The words between these covers emerge from the Goddard’s NIFCA Literary Arts competition year 2019, but also from a turbulence of poems, stories, essays and other forms of commentary, on social media and elsewhere, that homed their way to the editors’ attention the first year of lockdown and during a summer of #BlackLivesMatter.

This anthology, the fifth in the series edited and sponsored by ArtsEtc, still does what it says on the tin. (ArtsEtc makes damn sure of that!) The writing is both winning and award-winning. Challenging. Insightful. Clever. Raw. And there is writing for every kind of reader, including those keen to discover, through Barbadian storytelling, how a people felt and behaved in a time of upheaval.

And for more from this edition: 
A Bajan Love Story by Racquel Williams
If Only on the Outside/If Only on the Inside by Gale E. Weithers
Resurrection 1 by Winston Farrell
Government’s shameless power grab on back of COVID-19 by Albert Brandford
Dear White People by Anderson Devonish
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister, Re: #NelsonMustGo by Alex Downes
On Race and Whiteness from the Context of Barbados #1 by Annalee Davis
Heinz 57, Maybe?, Ian Bourne
Exhaustive Listening by Cyndi Celeste Marshall