Charmaine "Nailah Folami Imoja" Gill 2024 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

2024 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Charmaine “Nailah Folami Imoja” Gill.  Video Copyright © 2024 by the Central Bank of Barbados.
 
 

Frank Collymore Awards Celebrate Literary Excellence, Cultural Identity (Adapted from barbadostoday.bb.)

IN A VIBRANT celebration of Barbadian letters, the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment (FCLE) showcased the island’s rich literary talent at its 27th awards ceremony.

A Turn in the Road

Sharing lessons in how to live.  Ralph Ellison in Harlem in 1966.  Photograph Copyright © by David Attie/Getty. 

 

A gun in hand knows no friend. 

John King, "How Many More?"

 

IT FEELS LIKE we’ve reached a bend in the river, a turn in the road.

Christine Barrow 2023 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

2023 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Christine Barrow. Photo Copyright © 2024 by Christine Barrow.


Christine Barrow adjudged Best Entrant at the 26th FCLE Awards (Adapted from barbadostoday.bb) 

CHRISTINE BARROW was the top entrant in the 26th Frank Collymore Literary Endowment competition for her prose fiction work Rainbow Window. She was awarded the $7500 second prize, however, as the judges declined to award a first place.

Finding the Third Way

The maze at German adventure park Erlebnispark Teichland. Sometimes, life’s like that.  Copyright © 2014 by HuffPost. 
 

War, war is stupid
And people are stupid
And love means nothing
In some strange quarters 

“The War Song,” Culture Club

 

The 2024 IndyList

 

THE INDYLIST is coming bigger than ever this year.

Peter Laurie 2022 Frank Collymore Literary Award Winner

2022 Frank Collymore Literary Award winner Peter Laurie. Photo Copyright © 2023 by Peter Laurie.


Adapted from centralbank.org.bb. Peter Laurie Took Home the $10,000 First Prize at the 25th FCLE Awards

What Is a Ridley Greene?

Ridley Greene: writer, editor, mentor, friend, and one of the featured acts at ArtsEtc’s launch at Waterfront Café way back in 2004.  Photo Copyright © 2023 by Kingsley Roberts.    

 

What's in a number? How It Feels to Turn Twenty Again

Artist Joshua Clarke's short video on the creation of the cover illustration for Cyndi Celeste's Girl Before Country.

 

You say it's your birthday
Well it's my birthday too, yeah
The Beatles, “Birthday”

 

I ALMOST MISSED my own party.

Party?

Nah.  More like the entire birthday.

It was my business partner and partner in literary activism, Linda M. Deane, who had to point out the date.

“So…what are we doing about our twenty years?”

Say what?

When?

The 2023 IndyList

 

WELCOME to the 2023 ArtsEtc Independence Reading List.  This is the twelfth edition (already!) of our annual list of Barbadian literature to acquaint yourself with over the next twelve months.   

So This Is Christmas?

“Good morning from Vermont.”  Photo Copyright © 2022 by Richard D. Venne.

 

“You say you’ve been twice a wife, 
And you’re through with life, 
Oh, but honey, what the hell’s it for?” 
Stan Rogers, “45 Years”

“Even though we don’t have snow heaven knows love will come through.”  NexCyx, “We Don’t Have Snow”

 

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