ArtsEtc Inc. is an independent Barbadian publishing company and cultural forum founded in 2003 by writers Linda M. Deane and Robert Edison Sandiford.

From 2003 to 2009, we produced a bi-monthly newsletter called ArtsEtc: The Premier Cultural Guide to Barbados. It attracted public and privatesector funding, and ran for two years longer than initially planned before becoming web-based as artsetcbarbados.com.

In 2007, ArtsEtc launched its book publishin imprint, AE Books. Its flagship publication was the groundbreaking Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology, which was launched during Cricket World Cup in 2007. The next major work from AE Books is a proposed general anthology of Barbadian literature

Through the individual and combined pursuits of its founding directors, ArtsEtc Inc. is also involved in literary development, education, and rights management. In 2008, the company began hosting the annual Green Readings event for Barbados’ Ministry of Environment.

 
 
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Robert is the author of two short story collections, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (Empyreal Press/The Independent Press, 1995) and The Tree of Youth (DC Books, 2005); the graphic novels Attractive Forces (NBM, 1997), Stray Moonbeams (NBM, 2002) and Great Moves (NBM, 2010); a travel memoir, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle (DC Books, 2003); and edited with Linda M. Deane Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology (AE Books, 2007).

He has worked as a journalist, book publisher, video producer (with Warm Water Productions), and teacher.

He has won awards for both his writing and editing, including Barbados’ Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts and the Harold Hoyte Award, respectively.

 
         
ROBERT EDISON SANDIFORD
 
 
   
 

Linda is a British-Barbadian writer and editor.

She is a graduate of the University of Warwick’s Comparative American Studies programme, and has worked as a journalist for over 25 years in Barbados, England and the United States.

In 2006, she won first prize in Barbados’ prestigious Frank Collymore Literary Endowment and received the Prime Minister’s Award for the poetry collection Cutting Road Blues: A Narrative. She is co-editor with Robert of Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology; and author of Path to a Heritage Strategy for Barbados: An Independent Report for the Barbados National Commission for UNESCO (2003).

Her writing has appeared in Poui, The Caribbean Writer, Bazaar Vol. One, and Bim: Arts for the 21st Century.

A founding director of The Barbados Copyright Agency (B-COPY), Linda is also a member of the group Writers Ink and tutors in creative writing in primary and secondary schools.

 
 
 
LINDA M. DEANE
 
SERVICES OFFERED
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Literary Event-planning  
   
• Readings
• Book launches
• Literary performance
• Event promotion
Literacy & Education
• Linda and Robert are both writing tutors and are involved in literary education at all levels, from primary to tertiary.
• ArtsEtc also designs and conducts writing seminars and writer-in-residence programmes.
 
Editorial & Publishing
 
• ArtsEtc specializes in anthologies but also offers a comprehensive range of services to writers and other clients, including writing, editing, design and layout, publication, project management, and consulting. We also offer editorial services to web-based clients.
Contact us

www.artsetcbarbados.com • artsetc@sunbeach.net

Robert Edison Sandiford
(246) 420-2138 • r_sandiford@sunbeach.net

Linda M. Deane
(246) 426-1792 • deanelinda@gmail.com

TOP: ArtsEtc organized the launch of author Thomas Armstrong’s award-winning Of Water and Rock at the UWI Bookshop in March, 2011; above, the Boardwalk at Hastings during Green Readings 2010; above right, Heather Barker, a 2009 Green Reader; and right, an ArtsEtc coordinated publication for the UWI, Cave Hill campusbased UWIHARP.