Tanya Batson-Savage | Sunday, May 27th, 2018
Four Caribbean writers hailing from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago made their way to the shortlist for the 2018 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize. The 2018 list features 24 stories from only 7 of the over 40 eligible countries and territories.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Sunday, July 2nd, 2017
Ingrid Persaud’s story of death, chocolate and fathers and sons proved sweet enough to earn the 2017 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Friday, November 11th, 2016
The winners of the 2016 Small Axe Literary competition have been announced. The top places have been claimed by ‘Mango Feast’ by Portia Subran for fiction while ‘Learning to Swim’ by Soyini Ayanna Forde earned first prize for poetry.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Sunday, June 12th, 2016
He was the last of the five to arrive at Treasure Beach in St. Elizabeth.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Sunday, May 1st, 2016
For the third year in a row, the Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, an award encouraging young adult lit, has been won by a debut novelist.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Friday, April 1st, 2016
Two Caribbean writers have made it to the shortlist of the 2016 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Sunday, November 15th, 2015
The shortlist for the 2014 Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award has been announced.
Tanya Batson-Savage | Sunday, April 5th, 2015
The regional shortlists of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been culled from a record breaking 4,000 entries. Four Trinidadians and a Jamaican are among the shortlist of 22 short stories from 11 countries.