Jamaica copped both regional prizes in the 2012 Commonwealth writing competitions: the Commonwealth Book Prize - snagged by Alecia McKenzie for her novel Sweetheart, and the Commonwealth Short story prize - earned by Diana McCaulay for her piece ‘The Dolphin Catcher’.

For the past four years writer Kei Miller has been enjoying the pleasures of exile in Scotland where he lectures in English and Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.