An obituary by John Robert Lee, on behalf of the Folk Research Centre
St. Lucian-born novelist Garth St. Omer passed away on Tuesday 24th April in Santa Barbara, California. He had lived and worked there for many years.
What’s it like to have a father whose literary reputation spans the region? And what’s it like to lose him?
Unfinished Sentences, the new documentary feature film by Mariel Brown, is about her relationship with her father, Wayne Brown. The celebrated Trinidadian poet, journalist and writing teacher died in 2009, only a year after Brown reconciled with him after a bitter split.
This year's Northern Poetry Symposium features Nick Makoha.
The Symposium takes place on 3 May at the Sage Gateshead, and there's an action packed day of discussions planned on the theme of poetry in translation and exiled voices. Forward shortlisted poets Nick Makoha and Karen McCarthy Woolf join Dutch poet Elma Van Haren, Ukrainian poet Ilya Kaminsky and the PBS Summer Translation Choice, Austrian poet Evelyn Schlag, and many more.
When I was about 10, and old enough to know fear, I heard my mother say to a neighbor that the good always die young.
My brother Gary—I had three but I loved him the most—was the best man I knew, so I tried to prepare myself for his early death.
Read the rest of 'A Dance with My Brother' in The Caribbean Writer!
Barbadian riddim poet and cultural activist, Adisa 'AJA' Andwele has 'literally' brought the late Jackie Opel back to talk to the youth about the upsurge in violent crimes and murders in Barbados and across the Caribbean. AJA has sampled Jackie Opel’s ‘Live and Let Live’ song and fused it with one of his poems in an attempt to achieve this objective.
Richmond Building
University of Bradford
Saturday 7 July, 2.30-3.45pm
25 years since the Black Book Fair was last held in Bradford, the Bradford Literature Festival gathers together a panel to discuss the history of the Fair and what it did to change the world of publishing. Created to celebrate the growth of radical ideas in literature and politics, this panel will consider whether the Black Book Fair paved the way for the current conversation about the publishing industry's lack of diversity.
Brighton Open Market
1 Marshalls Row
Brighton
BN1 4JU
From 1pm
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Inscribe-supported writer Lynne Blackwood is going to be reading at Brighton's Wordstock. Wordstock is a free, all-day literary drop-in, which is part of the Brighton Fringe calendar.
Author Leone Ross has been shortlisted in the Short Story Collection category for the 2018 Saboteur Awards, for Come Let Us Sing Anyway. Congratulations, Leone!
Members of the public can vote for their favourite titles until 9 May. The winner in each category will win a very special bottle of Sacred Gin, a logo they can use on their book, and a boatload of kudos.
The awards will be announced on Saturday 19th May at Theatre Delicatessen (Broadgate) in London.
Books by writers from Jamaica and T&T have been named to the shortlist of the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize, the Caribbean’s top literary award, sponsored by One Caribbean Media, parent company of the Express and TV6 and radio network.
