“The best teen/YA Caribbean novels for readers everywhere” – Shepherd: Discover the Best Books – January 2021
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“Joanne’s List: Caribbean Books for Children” in Interviewing the Caribbean Vol. 5 No. 1 – Caribbean Childhood: Trauma and Triumphs Pt. 1 – UWI Press – December 2019
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“A Life in Mas” in Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters – 2018
Excerpt:
“Back then it was just a feeling that exploded in my body like fireworks. That’s what mas is at its purest, that feeling: pure joy.
I would capture that feeling from the inside for the first time the first time I played mas in 1989.”
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“Mirror Mirror” in Essence – February 2016
Excerpt:
“My favorite doll, the one I had the longest, was the duplicate of one my sister had, because we had everything the same back then. She was Black like us, with our thick hair, and thanks to mom stitching dresses for our ‘twins’ from the scraps of our clothes, they could have been our baby sisters. She was a big doll, not Barbie-size. I liked plaiting her hair almost as much as I hated having my own plaited.”
Read in full: Essence 2016 proof JCH
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“Feeling the GHETTO VIBES” in the Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books – 2011
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“Althea Prince: Writing What She Intuits” in the Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books – 2011
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“Perspectives on Contemporary Media Trends in Antigua and Barbuda” in the CLR James Journal – 2007
Note: This is a research paper I presented at the first Antigua and Barbuda conference in 2004 and was subsequently invited to submit for publication.
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I’ve written many articles for many publications (some linked here) over the years, as either a staff or freelance journalist and features writer. This page is for creative essays and research papers which are not paid assignments. In addition to this page and articles linked above, be sure to, also, check out my Guest Blogs and other Writing on the Media page, as well as my published short fiction and poetry, and books.
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