The Caribbean Digital XII Conference Schedule is live!

Swipe to see the lineup, and click the link in bio to see the full conference details, as well as the registration link. We hope to see you in Boston soon!

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Page Turners Plus: A conversation with Marcia Douglas. Her newest work, The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, is simply magic in written form. youtu.be/9jYT3XD66Jg?...

Survived the summer grind. I can end my social media break. PhD chapter and time at McMaster is over. New home is TMU and the Department of English. 😀

Read poems by John Robert Lee and Amílcar Peter Sanatan in sx salon 49. Both writers dedicate pieces to the Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist, Lorna Goodison. smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...

Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison. Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025, features two interviews. Anita Baksh interviews Rajiv Mohabir (@rajivmohabir.bsky.social) Ronald Cummings interviews Linzey Corridon (@westofwestindian.bsky.social) Check out these interviews in the most recent issue of JWIL. www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

New collab with the incomparable Ronald Cummings is out in Journal of West Indian Literature. Do take a moment to read more about the magic that went into producing my first book project. www.jwilonline.org

Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...

West of West Indian is shortlisted for the 2025 Caricon Prize for Literature. If you are a believer in the project, consider casting a vote in support of the title. ☺️ awards.cari-con.org

Where Oceans Join: Landscapes, Seascapes, Archipelagoes in Circum-Caribbean Ecologies 6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...

New poems and a critical conversation in Poetry in Place. I’ll be reading from the work this weekend. If you’re in Hamilton on May 24, come through and support the official book launch!😀

excited to announce a revised, expanded version of Policing Black Lives (@fernpub.bsky.social /Duke University Press) now available for pre-order, out October 15. ft. two new chapters, a new preface & an expanded conclusion. US version now offering 30% off with author code E26MYRD.

In sx salon 48, Oriana Mejías Martínez @leors.bsky.social reviews two books on migration in the Caribbean: (i) Anthea Morrison’s New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives and (ii) Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art.

Body in North America, spirit in the Caribbean. Always coming home. Thank you @bocaslitfest.bsky.social 🥹

In sx salon 48, Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social reviews Oneka LaBennett’s Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond @nyupress.bsky.social.

Back to regular programming in Canada. I’ll be visiting the Orangeville Public Library next weekend. 😄 Registration link below: calendar.orangevillelibrary.ca/default/Deta...

Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social medium.com/clash-voices...

Announcing the launch of sx salon 48. The issue includes essays by Amandla Thomas-Johnson and Stéphane Martelly, reviews by Sasha Ann Panaram, Oriana Méjías Martinez, Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon, poems by Letitia Marie Pratt, and stories by José Darío Martínez Milantchi and Alicia Valasse-Polius.

CAISO's high-octane BackChat is back, featuring an incredible lineup including Lesley-Ann Wanliss, alexispauline.bsky.social, @westofwestindian.bsky.social, abagoo.bsky.social, Angelique V. Nixon, Daniel Blaze, @dennyspeaks.bsky.social, earth, @novelniche.bsky.social, and Tamara Ali. #bocas2025

In Trinidad for a bit. Feel free to come through and say hello. 😉

If you’re at GritLit Festival today, come say hello!

“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.” Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛 substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Well, there it is. I said this would happen. Not even a "sort of" Canadian book on the Griffin shortlist. Fuck this. Don't go to a Griffin event until they change it back.

WoW in the wild. Folks in BIM continue to show the work nothing but love. Copies are available for purchase at Black Rock Books. 😀

Looking forward to this conversation with you, Andre!

A memorial reading honoring the life and work of Danielle Legros Georges will be held at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston on Sunday, May 4, from 1 to 5 pm. Featuring readings by over twenty writers, poets, and publishers. Free & open to the public. RSVP at daniellememorial.splashthat.com.

We’d like to take a moment to congratulate our first Artist-in-Residence, Joanne C. Hillhouse (@jhohadli.bsky.social), for making the 2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist with her piece, “Jumbie Pond”!! 🤩🇦🇬🎊❤️ (📸 by Annetta Jackson)

In “No Human Being is Illegal,”(2006), Howard Zinn reminds us that “discrimination against the foreign born has a long history, going back to the beginning of the nation” & running up to the “Patriot Act.” For the record, the vicious hostility meted out to immigrants has been a bi-partisan affair.

Heading south for Bocas😀

Congratulations to Dionne Brand for winning the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize in Nonfiction for Salvage: Readings from the Wreck. ICYMI: here is our deep dive together into Salvage: Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/dion... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

Event info dump for family and friends ☺️ April 6 (tonight) at 7 pm, Lit Live (Canada) April 25 at 7 pm, Grit Lit (Canada) May 1 at 9 pm, BackChat (Trinidad) May 3 at 1 pm, Take Two (Trinidad) May 17 at 7 pm, Mill Street Library (Canada) May 24 at 2 pm, The Gasworks (Canada)

Mawenzi House is having a poetry sale, which means that my first book is also discounted. This is your chance to grab a copy for yourself or for a friend. 😀 www.mawenzihouse.com/product/west...

Cohort 2 of our Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies program is busy preparing new teaching materials. Visit tinyurl.com/OERCohort2 for descriptions and stay tuned for their completed projects later this year!‼️The deadline to apply to cohort 3 is April 14. ℹ️Info: tinyurl.com/OER-Caribbean

Congratulations to the team at @jwilonline.bsky.social. The publication is this year’s recipient of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters.

Today, we’re sharing a word on colonisation and the psyche of the coloniser from Aimé Césaire’s 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘮 👇🏾

the dismantling of (cross-disciplinary) studies of liberation reminds me of Sylvia Wynter’s invitation to think about academic work that has and can radically shift our present system of knowledge. pedagogy can foster rebellion. research has the capacity to undo harm and learn about resistance.

Big up to Christina at Searchlight newspaper for sharing the news with the Vincentian public. I talked to her briefly about creative writing and academic research, queerness and Caribbean life, and making the Bocas shortlist.

Call for papers: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference   The University of Miami, Coral Gables Department of English & Creative Writing and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies   October 8-11, 2025 More information available in the link: www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...

The shortlists for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature were announced last night. And my first book is up for the poetry award. 🥹 Grateful for all the support for the project and the vision. And congrats to all of the nominees! 💛

“In recent years, there has been a noticeable drift, within certain intellectual circles and practices, in the direction of thinking again about universalism and its cognates,” writes SX editor, David Scott, in the preface to our issue 75. Read the whole piece tinyurl.com/5enbhf8y

Some updates regarding the recent passing of sx salon's creative editor, Danielle Legros Georges. www.instagram.com/p/DG_wZ5EysX...

Happy #InternationalWomen’sDay from the Intersect Antigua-Barbuda team! 🇦🇬✨

Scholar Strike Canada urges York University to Defend not suspend Gender Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program and Indigenous Studies. Please read.

Colonial capitalist cruelty and greed can never be held accountable by the juridical structures designed to maintain it. Crimes and scaldals become beacons of hope for those who wish to exploit, plunder, gentrify, and punish to concentrate wealth.

Refuse a world in which the university is without languages and the humanities.

"Look what happens with a love like that..." —Hafiz #poetry #poem #poems

The range! If you’re interested in reading more about the queer Caribbean experience, grab a copy of my collection using the link below 😉 www.mawenzihouse.com/product/west...