Check out David Scott's preface to sx68 available for free on Duke's website--follow the link: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/arti… Photo credit: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa…

Join us from August 29 to Sept 5 for JWIL's August twitter residency. Nalini Mohabir (@BrownGirlEnvy) will be sharing about the life and pioneering work of Frank Birbalsingh.

Caribbean Borderlands: Postnationalism Prefigured @ 20 Oct. 7, 2022 University of Virginia People may also attend virtually via zoom webinar. The link for the zoom registration is here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

NEWS: Taresh Bobby Ramroop fell to his death after an hours-long confrontation with approximately 20 Toronto police officers. He needed mental health care, not cops Taresh's family is speaking out tomorrow at Jane and Finch, and invites media and neighbours to attend

In a moment when institutions are seemingly embracing Black Studies, it is important to remember Austin Clarke's role in the development of Black Studies programs in the United States. Often obscured from narratives of Clarke's life are the years he spent as a teacher in the US

Thrilled to announce the publication of the latest issue of JWIL. Check it out!!

Coming Soon - Issue Number 41 | In sx salon 41, Phanuel Antwi curates a conversation between four poets on the work of M. NourbeSe Philip & an essay by Philip herself. In anticipation of this special issue, check out the forthcoming titles in the discussion section:

"How hard it is to sleep in the middle of life..." -Audre Lorde "The Electric Slide Boogie" in The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance Audre Lorde was born on this day in 1934 and we are celebrating!!!!! I'm @alexispauline and I know is that Audre believed in partying as praxis.

Read @GeoffreyPhilp's salute to Lee 'Scratch' Perry in PREE's latest issue: preelit.com/2023/02/17/res…

Call for Papers 41st Annual West Indian Literature Conference hosted by the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus (Kingston, Jamaica). October 12-14, 2023 The deadline for submission of abstracts is May 15, 2023. jwilonline.org/call-for-paper…

"The unplanned migrations of the world’s oppressed is a refusal of the conceit that the wealthy West, which has exploited the peoples, lands and waters of the Global South, can also govern their movement across this earth." —Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho) canadiandimension.com/articles/view/…

We’ll be streaming live throughout the festival! 🎫 FREE, no payment required! 🔗 bocaslitfest.com/festival/live #bocas2023, 28-30 April, is back in-person and streaming live, free and open to all! Powered by ngctrinidadandtobago Bocas Lit Fest ⚡️ #bocas2023 #whatsyourstory

My conversation with Kevin Jared Hosein & Celeste Mohammed reflecting on the shared themes of myths, marronage, father-son relationships, wake/mourning work and Caribbean modernity in their respective novels, Hungry Ghosts and Pleasantview. youtube.com/live/PEbGdeX7D… via YouTube

May 20 is Samuel Selvon's 100th Birthday!!! Join us between May 22nd and May 29th for our next JWIL Twitter residency when Nalini Mohabir (Nalini Mohabir) will reflect on Samuel Selvon @ 100!!!

Let's start off with an arc of Sam Selvon's life (1923-1994, gone too soon)

Also, a reminder, if you're at Congress, check out our Plenary Panel on Sam Selvon at 100 w/ Ronald Cummings, Kris Singh (Kris Singh), Cornel Bogle, and me (Nalini Mohabir ) as part of the Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies, Tues May 30, 8:30am-10:15, York U, rm ATK 109

sx salon 42 is now live! smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issues… This issue features a special discussion section on Jamaican literary scholar Cliff Lashley (1935-1993). A tribute to Lashley, this issue celebrates Lashley’s place in Caribbean letters.

The Journal of West Indian Literature (Journal of West Indian Literature) has been at the forefront of publishing Caribbean writing and criticism since 1986. Our most recent issue can be found here: jwilonline.org/current-issue/

I left you last with a video of part of Woodside’s Emancipation ritual. In a documentary entitled ‘Bury Mi Foot Chain’, Erna Brodber talks about her interviews with Jamaican elders, who give her “an order” to never forget the ancestors’ histories of enslavement and colonization.

2024 marks 90 years since Austin Clarke's birth. To mark this occasion, we turn to the archives, to remember and reflect on Clarke's life and acheivements. Today we share excepts of and reflections on a letter written by Andrew Salkey to Austin Clarke on April 8, 1969.