👉🏽In today’s post, Kiana M. Knight interviews Dr. Oneka LaBennett about her latest book, Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond (NYU Press 2024). aaihs.org/global-guyana-…

Wheatley at 250: Celebrating the Legacy of America’s First Published African-American Poet americanlibraryinparis.org/event/wheatley…

RIP Velma Pollard (1937-2025) Honoring the memory of a literary giant. A Jamaican poet and fiction writer, among Pollard’s most noteworthy works are Shame Trees Don’t Grow Here (1991). She is the sister of Erna Brodber, another Jamaican literary treasure.

As we say farewell to Velma Pollard, we celebrate decades of Caribbean teaching & community building. Pollard, Michael Dash & Victor Chang are all now gone, but their literary & educational legacies continue to bear fruit in new generations of Caribbean scholarship & creativity.

Runner up for the Vondel Translation Prize David McKay for a translation of Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname Polity

Also excited that we will hear about Alison Donnell's latest book, in the context of a chapter related to Montreal. March 5th 1:15 pm milieux.concordia.ca/event/speculat…

I’m looking forward to this event around THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS. 📍 Manchester (UK) – Wednesday, 5th March I’ll be in conversation with Monique Roffey at Manchester Met. 🎟 Get your ticket here (eventbrite.co.uk/e/jason-allen-…)

Exciting news! My book is available for PRE-ORDER! You can receive 30% off when you order directly from Columbia University Press using the discount code CUP30 (link below). Official release date is May 13, 2025. For now, check out the cover and blurbs from scholars I deeply respect & admire!

📣Caribbean writers! Submit your scripts for the 29th International Audio Drama Competition 🎧🌍 hosted by BBC World Service and the British Council. 🗓 Deadline: 4 June 2025 🔗bbc.co.uk/send/u197134676 British Council Arts British Council BBC World Service

The Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio is excited to announce our next event: A Celebration of Caribbean Women Writers, with Merle Collins, Shannon T. Smith, and Indira Toussaint! Join us on March 27th for an evening of literature and conversation eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-celebratio…?

Our HOD, Dr Lisa Tomlinson, will be giving the keynote at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts' 16th Gender and Development Lecture! On Thursday, Feb 27, join us at the Vera Moody Concert Hall for "50-50: The Re/presentation of Gender in the Arts."

The #bocas2025 festival programme is unfurling in real time! 👀 😃 🥳 Nicholas Laughlin, Festival and Programme Director, is treating us to some of our visiting writers' names: olive senior, Diana McCaulay, Alycia Pirmohamed, Jason Allen-Paisant, Antonio Michael Downing, Yomi Ṣode 🇳🇬 will all be here!

📣It's what you've been waiting for! 📖The Bocas Lit Fest, T&T’s annual festival of books & writers, presents 4 days of extraordinary programming!👉Click the link, save the dates, and share with readers & writers of all ages: bocaslitfest.com/programme #bocas2025

Two highly anticipated new novels by past winners of the OCM Bocas Prize! Set centuries apart, and epic in both scope & ambition, olive senior’s Paradise Once and Celeste Mohammed’s Ever Since We Small will make their world debuts at #bocas2025! With Dr. Lisa Outar #alwayscominghome

Dr. Lisa Outar accepts the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award, given to Journal of West Indian Literature, on behalf of all its present, past, and founding editors. "Journal work is collective work", says Outar, thanking the many designers, artists, scholars, peer reviewers who have given so much to JWIL.

Dr. Lisa Outar, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of West Indian Literature, and past Editor-in-Chief Evelyn O’Callaghan in conversation with Ronald Cummings #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome Journal of West Indian Literature