The best teen/YA Caribbean novels for readers everywhere – Shepherd: Discover the Best Books – January 2021
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About a Girl: a Close Read of Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘Girl’, its stylistic devices and & aesthetic intersection with literature in the Antiguan and Barbudan oral (specifically calypso) literary tradition – (to be published in the Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books 2022; delivered at the Antigua and Barbuda Conference November 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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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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