Heather Barker, second-place winner of the 2017 Frank Collymore Literary Award for The Plundering, a collection of stories.  The title story appeared in the anthology So Many Islands, edited by Nicholas Laughlin with Nailah Folami Imoja.  Photo Copyright © 2018 by the Central Bank of Barbados.

MAPPING BARBADOS’ LITSCAPE is an ArtsEtc project to track and document Barbados’ very rich and diverse literary tradition.  At our house, the need to better connect readers to this landscape and region has taken many forms over the years.