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Journal of West Indian Literature

@jwilonline

JWIL has been at the forefront of publishing Caribbean writing and criticism since 1986.

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1/2 šŸ“£Meet the judges of 2025's OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature!šŸ“£ ⭐Chief Judge: Erna Brodber ⭐Poetry: Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Chair), Adalber Salas HernĆ”ndez HernĆ”ndez, & Alycia Pirmohamed The 2025 #OCMBocasPrize is sponsored by One Caribbean Media One Caribbean Media #bocas2025 .../2

1/2 šŸ“£Meet the judges of 2025's OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature!šŸ“£
⭐Chief Judge: Erna Brodber
⭐Poetry: Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Chair), <a href="/adalbersalas/">Adalber Salas HernÔndez</a> HernÔndez, &amp; <a href="/a_pirmohamed/">Alycia Pirmohamed</a>
The 2025 #OCMBocasPrize is sponsored by One Caribbean Media <a href="/OCM_group/">One Caribbean Media</a> #bocas2025   .../2
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With great excitement we announce that books by celebrated authors from T&T and Haiti have won the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction categories of the 2025 #OCMBocasPrize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media OCM Group. Details at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/ .../2

With great excitement we announce that books by celebrated authors from T&amp;T and Haiti have won the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction categories of the 2025 #OCMBocasPrize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media <a href="/OCMgroup/">OCM Group</a>. Details at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/ .../2
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April’s Bocas Book Bulletin features new Caribbean releases, news of the 2025 Bocas Lit Fest programme; genre winners of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; March bestsellers at Paper Based Bookshop; and more trinidadexpress.com/features/local… #bocas2025 Trinidad and Tobago Express Newspapers One Caribbean Media

April’s Bocas Book Bulletin features new Caribbean releases, news of the 2025 Bocas Lit Fest programme; genre winners of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; March bestsellers at <a href="/paperbasedbooks/">Paper Based Bookshop</a>; and more trinidadexpress.com/features/local…
#bocas2025 <a href="/expressupdates/">Trinidad and Tobago Express Newspapers</a> <a href="/OCM_Group/">One Caribbean Media</a>
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Co-editors-in-chief Michael A. Bucknor and Dr. Lisa Outar and past editor-in-chief Evelyn O’Callaghan explore the ways Journal of West Indian Literature (winner of the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award) has evolved and discuss what its future intellectual role is. #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome

Co-editors-in-chief Michael A. Bucknor and <a href="/LisaOutar/">Dr. Lisa Outar</a> and past editor-in-chief Evelyn O’Callaghan explore the ways <a href="/jwilonline/">Journal of West Indian Literature</a> (winner of the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award) has evolved and discuss what its future intellectual role is.
#bocas2025 #alwayscominghome
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Our Lovelace at 90 celebration continues with screenings of George and the Bicycle Pump and Joebell and America, two film adaptations of Earl Lovelace's short fiction, directed by Asha Lovelace. #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome

Our Lovelace at 90 celebration continues with screenings of George and the Bicycle Pump and Joebell and America, two film adaptations of Earl Lovelace's short fiction, directed by Asha Lovelace. 
#bocas2025 #alwayscominghome
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We're celebrating Earl Lovelace’s 90th birthday with screenings of 'Earl Lovelace: A Writer in His Place' -directed by Funso Aiyejina, and 'Port of Spain: A Writer’s Heaven' - a tour of T&T’s capital through books — including Lovelace’s novel The Dragon Can’t Dance. #bocas2025

We're celebrating Earl Lovelace’s 90th birthday with screenings of 'Earl Lovelace: A Writer in His Place' -directed by Funso Aiyejina, and 'Port of Spain: A Writer’s Heaven' - a tour of T&amp;T’s capital through books — including Lovelace’s novel The Dragon Can’t Dance.
#bocas2025
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If You Missed It The First Time (July 2023): Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean – Imani D. Owens | Columbia University Press | More information can be found here: cup.columbia.edu/book/turn-the-…

If You Missed It The First Time (July 2023): Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean – Imani D. Owens | Columbia University Press | More information can be found here: cup.columbia.edu/book/turn-the-…
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Claude McKay was a Jamaican poet and key figure in the Harlem Renaissance whose work gave voice to Black resistance. His iconic poem If We Must Die is a defiant call to confront injustice with dignity, courage, and unity—even in the face of death. #cdsc #resistance #dignity

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You are invited to the 2025 Awards Ceremony! Be there for the exciting moment when the overall winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is announced, and witness the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award being presented to Journal of West Indian Literature. Doors open 6pm! #bocas2025 One Caribbean Media

You are invited to the 2025 Awards Ceremony! Be there for the exciting moment when the overall winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is announced, and witness the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award being presented to <a href="/jwilonline/">Journal of West Indian Literature</a>. 
Doors open 6pm!
#bocas2025 <a href="/OCM_Group/">One Caribbean Media</a>
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🧵 #Calabash2025 Schedule. Live and direct on the one and only Calabash stage: who is coming, on what day and at what time, for which session, how the music part go and more. Save and share, please and thanks. Visit calabashfestival.org for more info.

🧵 

#Calabash2025 Schedule. 

Live and direct on the one and only Calabash stage: who is coming, on what day and at what time, for which session, how the music part go and more. 

Save and share, please and thanks.

Visit calabashfestival.org for more info.
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Dr. Lisa Outar accepts the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award, given to Journal of West Indian Literature, on behalf of all its present, past, and founding editors. "Journal work is collective work", says Outar, thanking the many designers, artists, scholars, peer reviewers who have given so much to JWIL.

<a href="/LisaOutar/">Dr. Lisa Outar</a> accepts the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award, given to <a href="/jwilonline/">Journal of West Indian Literature</a>, on behalf of all its present, past, and founding editors.

"Journal work is collective work", says Outar, thanking the many designers, artists, scholars, peer reviewers who have given so much to JWIL.
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Dr. Lisa Outar, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of West Indian Literature, and past Editor-in-Chief Evelyn O’Callaghan in conversation with Ronald Cummings #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome Journal of West Indian Literature

<a href="/LisaOutar/">Dr. Lisa Outar</a>, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of West Indian Literature, and past Editor-in-Chief Evelyn O’Callaghan in conversation with Ronald Cummings
#bocas2025 #alwayscominghome
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So thankful for this review of ā€œThe Keeper of All the Secretsā€ … much respect to OUR market women … šŸ’™šŸ¤ŽšŸŒŗšŸ§œšŸæā€ā™€ļø

So thankful for this review of ā€œThe Keeper of All the Secretsā€ … much respect to OUR market women … šŸ’™šŸ¤ŽšŸŒŗšŸ§œšŸæā€ā™€ļø
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Lovely tribute reading! ANNIE JOHN by JAMAICA KINCAID A Caribbean classic read by Jamaican notables from home and abroad on its 40th anniversary #Calabash2025

Lovely tribute reading!

ANNIE JOHN by
JAMAICA KINCAID

A Caribbean classic read by Jamaican notables from home and abroad on its 40th anniversary

#Calabash2025
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Bristol | Arnolfini | 3PM–6:30PM A one-day film programme honouring protest, Carnival, and Caribbean storytelling — including *Mas Resistance*, *Reimagining Queen Nanny* and more. In partnership with Curiosity UnLtd. šŸŽ« Tickets: windrushfilmfestival.com šŸ“ø @arnolfiniarts

Bristol | Arnolfini | 3PM–6:30PM
A one-day film programme honouring protest, Carnival, and Caribbean storytelling — including *Mas Resistance*, *Reimagining Queen Nanny* and more. In partnership with Curiosity UnLtd.
šŸŽ« Tickets: windrushfilmfestival.com
šŸ“ø @arnolfiniarts
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New (May 2025): Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense – Edited by MarĆ­a Lugones and Patrick M. Crowley | Indiana University Press | More information can be found here: iupress.org/9780253073051/…

New (May 2025): Decolonial Thinking: Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense – Edited by MarĆ­a Lugones and Patrick M. Crowley | Indiana University Press | More information can be found here: iupress.org/9780253073051/…