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2020s
2010s
With Olive Senior at Fort James, Antigua (2019) with Margaret Busby and contributor Ellah Wakatama Allfrey on a New Daughters of Africa panel at Sharjah Book Fair in 2019. With Bernice McFadden in the desert, UAE, 2019. 2019 in Sharjah with Margaret Busby, 3rd from left, and Yvonne Bailey-Smith, 2nd from left. on a panel with Emirati sci fi writer Noura Al Nouman (right) at the Sharjah Book Fair 2019. with Marlon James at his Antigua book signing in 2019. 2018 with Kimolisa Mings and Brenda Lee Browne. Book event with Michelle Toussaint and Kimolisa Mings. with Geoffrey Philp, 2018, at the Miami Book Fair. with Caribbean writers, 2019, at Commonwealth Writers fiction writing workshop led by Jacob Ross and Karen Lord, in Barbados. Reading at Sugar Ridge with fellow Antiguan and Barbudan writers, Brenda Lee Browne and Kimolisa Mings. 2018. with Floree Williams 2018 at bookstore event. with author and the publisher of With Grace, Mario Picayo. with writers at Just Write writers retreat. 2016. with Natasha Lightfoot during Independence panel, Antigu, 2016. with Shakirah Bourne in BIM, 2016 2016 at the BIM lit fest with Bernice McFadden and A-dZiko Simba Gegele. with authors like Olive Senior, Tanya Shirley, Esther Phillip, A-dZiko Gegele, Mervyn Morris, and Bernice McFadden at the BIM Fest in 2016. @ Barbados PM’s official residence. with Mervyn Morris in BIM, 2016. With Olive Senior, 2016 in Barbados. with Guyanese writer Ruel Johnson, 2016, at Moray House in Guyana – CaribLit organized fiction editing workshop – for an author reading. With Jane King, Kim Dismont Robinon, Richard Georges, Tanya Batson-Savage, and Nailah Imoja. With author-editors at the Carib Lit fiction editing workshop in Guyana (2016): Shivanee Ramlochan, Nailah Imoja, Jane King, Felene Cayetano, Richard Georges, Tanya Batson-Savage, Ruel Johnson, Kim Dismont Robinson, Jeremy Poynting, and johnny Temple. with Richard Georges and Kim Dismont-Robinson at CaribLit editing workshop in Guyana, 2016. With Althea Romeo Mark – Antiguan born writer now resident in Switzerland, and Brenda Lee Browne – British born with Antiguan roots and resident in Antigua – 2015 at the Antigua Conference. After the panel at the Brooklyn Book FAIR – me with from left Ian Maloney, Matthew McGevna, and Tanwi Nadini Islam. Pictured with other Caribbean Writers at the Brooklyn Book Fair 2015. (source: Brooklyn Book Festival fb page) With Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow, at the 2015 Brooklyn Book Festival. with Elizabeth Nunez. at the Anguilla Literary Jollification with Marilyn Hodge, Rhoda Arrindell and chair Rita Celestine-Carty. After a reading at the Anguilla Public Library with library staff, one of the students, and fellow writers including, Philip Arnell, Yona Deshommes, Annie Potts, and J. Ivy. Anguilla (2015) In 2015, at the Anguilla Literary Festival. Other writers pictured are J. Ivy (in green) and actress Annie Potts (in headwrap). with a writer Jamaica Kincaid in St. Croix in 2015 USVI Literary Festival and Book Fair. (Photo courtesy Jamaican writer Opal Palmer Adisa) with Jamaica Kincaid and Jamaican writer Opal Palmer Adisa at the V I Lit Fest 2015. with Trinidadian writer Sharon Millar at the V I Lit Fest 2015. 2015 at USVI lit fest with from left Sharon Millar, Amelia Headley LaMont, Tiphanie Yanique, Gillian Royes for the first of my two panels that day. Photo courtesy Amelia Headley Lamont. With Sharon Millar, Tiphanie Yanique, and Gillian Royes at the V I Lit Fest 2015. With educators and other participating writers in St. Croix during a schools tour at the Virgin Islands Literary Festival. 2015. Clare Hall School event with Max Hurst, Timothy Payne, and Sylvanus Barnes with teacher Ms. Shadrach, standing. 2015. At the Just Write Writers Retreat with from left Retreat organizer Brenda Lee Browne, and writers Asha Graham (2013 and 2014 winner of the Wadadli Youth Pen Prize), Glen Toussaint and Zahra Airall. 2014. Editing workshop, 2014, Just Write Writers Retreat. Antiguan writers and friends out to support British author Elaine Spires’ book launch – 2014. with Carol Mitchell 2014. with Hungarian writer and Festival and Programs Director at PEN America, 2014. At the PEN World Voices Festival, 2014, with Vanessa Manko (author of The Invention of Exile). with A-dZiko Gegele in Trinidad, 2014. The Burt Awards panel at the Bocas Literary Festival in 2014 – that’s winner A-dziko Gegele, far left, and far right, fellow finalist Colleen Smith-Dennis, both Jamaican writers. This is either after or before my panel with Ivory Kelly of Belize…far right is the other featured writer Martin McIntyre. Gemma Robinson, the panel chair, is to my right. 2014. At a pub in Scotland, 2014, with Jamaican writer Kei Miller (author of Fear of Stones and other books). I was in Glasgow for the Aye Write! Festival. (Photo courtesy Ivory Kelly) with Ivory Kelly and Kei Miller with Ivory Kelly of Belize, my co-panelist at that festival 2014. Ivory and I both shared our stories from Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean. (Photo courtesy Ivory Kelly) From left, Linisa George, Brenda Lee Browne, Floree Williams, and me. 2013. With Caribbean writers Leone Ross, Kendel Hippolyte, and Earl Lovelace in Guadeloupe in 2013. with Earl Lovelace, 2013. In Guadeloupe, 2013, Caribbean Congress of Writers with Bahamian writer Marion Bethel and Jamaican writer Leone Ross. (Photo courtesy John Robert Lee) With Kendel Hippolyte, 2013 in Guadeloupe. with various Caribbean writers, 2013, Guadeloupe. with John Robert Lee, St. Lucian poet, in Guadeloupe 2013. with Earl Lovelace in Guadeloupe for the Caribbean Congress of Writers (2013). in a session at the Caribbean Writers Congress with St. Lucian writer McDonald Dixon. 2013. with Antiguan-Barbudan-British writer Claudia Elizabeth Ruth Francis. About…2013 maybe. with Antiguan-Barbudan/British writer Brenda Lee Browne who played the role of interviewer during a televised discussion of my book Oh Gad! in 2012. with Bajan poet Adrian Green at the Nature Island Literary Festival, Dominica, 2012. Photo by Celia Sorhaindo. Me, signing a copy of Oh Gad for Lisa Latouche at the NILF in August 2012. Jamaica’s Poet Laureate Mervyn Morris was my mentor during my University of the West Indies days. Ran in to him and had the opportunity to take another of his workshops 2012 at the Nature Island Literary Festival. So many laughs with St. Lucian poet and playwright Kendel Hippolyte at the Caribbean Congress of Writers in Guadeloupe (2013). Just Write retreat 2012. @ Brown University with Yvonne McBride and Michael Sawyer. with Antiguan calypso writer Marcus Christopher at the 2012 launch of Oh Gad! with Antiguan poet and literary event organizer, at the launch of Oh Gad! in 2012. Behind all those kids, centre, is Montserrat poet and playwright Chadd Cumberbatch, who stopped by the Cushion Club to read from his book Ya Ya Surfeit. Circa 2010. a candid at rehearsals for When a Woman Moans, a theatrical production put on by Women of Antigua, with Floree Williams.
2000s
with Antiguan and Barbudan writers D. Gisele Isaac and Barbara Arrindell, 2008, at the Moonlight Street Fair for Dancing Nude in the Moonlight. The official photo of Breadloaf fellows 2008…see if you recognize any of your favourite writers. Me with my writing group at the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Vermont 2008. Our workshop leader was Ursula Hegi, centre, and I was one of two fellows – the other was Will Allison, back row right. at Breadloaf 2008. Panelists at the BIM Symposium (2008) Celebrating Caribbean Women Writers. Ramabai Espinet, Angela Barry, Danielle Boodoo Fortune, Curdella Forbes This picture was taken at the 2008 BIM Panel in Barbados ‘Celebrating Caribbean Women Writers. The inaugural Friends of Antigua Public Library author-in-residence programme in New York, 2007. My interviewer for the evening was Monica Matthew, author of Journeycakes. 2007 with Monica Matthew. With self-proclaimed fantiguan and NY Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey at one of the literary festivals in Antigua …I think this might have been 2007 or 2008. A panel at the ABILF, around 2007 with Elizabeth Nunez and Linda Duggins. A panel at the ABILF, around 2007 with Eric Jerome Dickey. With Marlon James 2007 at the Calabash Lit Fest in Jamaica. This is just me fan-girling (with Colin Channer) and I had to work up the nerve to talk to him, much less ask him for a picture. This was 2007 at the Calabash Lit Fest in Jamaica. A group of writers from Antigua and Barbuda w/ Caryl Philips at Caabash in Jamaica. Lit Fest in Antigua 2006. From left, Althea Prince, Elizabeth Nunez, Verna Wilkins, Nalo Hopkinson, Marie Elena John. 2005. Me, left, and Jamaica Kincaid, right, in Antigua in the mid-aughts. with D. Gisele Isaac, Antigua. Around 2005-ish. My first ever book event (2003), a signing outside of the Best of Books for The Boy from Willow Bend. w/Antiguan and Barbudan author S E James.
1990s
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