Writing off the Map in Signifying Guyana – 2010 (reposted in 2011 to Blurb is a Verb)
Excerpt:
I hope to be similarly stimulated through my interactions with this small group and outside of it, to continue to strive for authenticity (and avoid self-censorship; another of those challenges for writers writing from a small place – just ask Kincaid).
Defining Moments in Geoffrey Philp’s Blog Spot – 2010
Excerpt:
I know I am a writer, because as I drove to that writers’ group meeting, musing on things, my fingers itched to pick at the scabs with paper and pen.
Wadadli Pen – Nurturing another generation of Antiguan and Barbudan Writers in Climbing the Gri Gri Tree – 2010
Excerpt:
So it was, for instance, that I was seeing, with new clarity, the parallels between inaugural winner Gemma George’s ‘Stray Dog Prepares for the Storm’ and Damani Tabor’s ‘Irate Beggar,’ one with a dog and the other with a human at their center but both really speaking to the way society recoils from its responsibility to the less fortunate.
What Calypso taught me about writing in Daily Observer (Antigua)- 2007 (abridged from a presentation during the Calypso Association Conference; later published in the 2008 edition of the Antigua and Barbuda International Literary Festival anniversary magazine and posted in 2010 at the Caribbean Literary Salon)
Excerpt:
Calypso in many ways was the ‘novel’ of the masses, all the devices, themes, and key story elements deftly used by the likes of Shelly Tobitt, Marcus Christopher, and others.
