The award-winning journal Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 78 is now available, read it online: buff.ly/xTwnWC6 Learn more, sign up for issue alerts, and subscribe: buff.ly/3yk2Wny

“Decolonization involves ensuring our children are raised on Caribbean literature.” In this interview, @amilcarsanatan.bsky.social and Marsha Massiah discuss the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival, the diaspora, and hope. Read more on their conversation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...

“I prefer the waves when they are dancing Dinki Mini with the sun” In her poem, “Learning to Swim”, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social reflects on building self-confidence through writing. Read her poem here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/poet...

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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“Here, we center us.” In this dialogue, Rachel Mordecai (current editor) and Kelly Baker Josephs (former editor) discuss sx salon at 50 issues, its transitions, archiving, pushing boundaries, and hope. Read their conversation here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...

sx salon 50 is now live! Our fiftieth issue features interviews and dialogues between scholars, writers, and artists followed by poetry and prose that honor Danielle Legros Georges. Read more on the latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...

Wifredo Lam: Artist-Poet of Tropical Dreams and Sorrows. The great Cuban modernist, whose politics and Afro-Asian roots shaped his paintings and inspired generations of artists, gets a revelatory survey at MoMA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/a...

Natural Disasters and Puerto Rican Art as Resistance to Colonialism: Responses to Hurricane María in Latinx Talk. latinxtalk.org/2025/11/13/t...

With great pleasure, the Small Axe Project welcomes Simone A. James Alexander to the sx salon editorial team, taking over the role of Book Reviews Editor from Ronald Cummings.

Celebrating Makeda Silvera, Stephanie Martin, and 40 Years of Sister Vision. September 25, 2025. McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario. Register here: sistervision.carrd.co

Congratulations to SX Salon's Creative Editor, Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, on his newest publication entitled Algarabía. Algarabía follows the journey of Cenex, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf. www.graywolfpress.org/books/algara...

The second annual Olive Lewin Distinguished Lecture will take place on September 11, 2025.

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...

In our latest issue of sx salon, Fabian M. Thomas reflects on his connections to Lorna Goodison and her work. Read his full contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...

For sx salon 49, Essah Cozett Díaz writes about women's agency and the influence of mothers in Lorna Goodison's poetry collection, I am Becoming My Mother. Read Díaz critical contribution here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...

Kellie Magnus interviews Lorna Goodison for sx salon 49. Goodison, Jamaica's second post-independence poet laureate, reflects on her tenure and shares insights into the value of poetry and the poet laureate program. Read the full interview here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/inte...

In our recently released sx salon 49, Elizabeth Coggeshall offers critical insights into Lorna Goodison's intertextual engagement with the poetry of Dante Alighieri. Read Coggeshall's full essay here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...

Shannon Chen See reviews Yashika Graham's debut poetry collection. Read the full review in sx salon 49: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/revi...

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...

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-...

In 2026, Postcolonial Text will release a special double-issue on the work of Pamela Mordecai. Abstracts of 300-500 words are due by September 15, 2025. Complete CFP details here: www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...

Caribbean Queer Visualities (CQV) | Small Axe Project (@smallaxeproject.bsky.social‬) | Curated by David Scott, Erica Moiah James, and Nijah Cunningham | Access Free PDF Here: smallaxe.net/cqv/issue-01...

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...

Join us as acclaimed writer Shani Mootoo reads from and discusses her latest collection of poetry, Oh Witness Dey! with Angelique V. Nixon. 🗓️24 June🕠5.30 pm 📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair ✨ FREE and open to all! @bookhugpress.bsky.social

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.

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.

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.

The Journal of West Indian Literature is the 2025 recipient of the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award. Congratulations @jwilonline.bsky.social www.bocaslitfest.com/awards/henry...

CFP: Decolonization & Global Justice | Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory | January 22-25, 2026 | University of Oregon | Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025 | For more information, visit here: decolonialphilosophies.blogspot.com

“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...

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.

📣Two weeks to the 15th edition of the Bocas Lit Fest, T&T’s annual festival of books and writers! Featuring 50 events over 4 days with more than 100 (local and visiting) writers, speakers and performers. 👉Visit bocaslitfest.com/programme to check out what's in store! #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome

New (April 2025): Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies – Edited by Patricia Noxolo, Kevon Rhiney, and Ronald Cummings | Routledge | More information can be found here: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...

Rereading Haiti, History, and the Gods: A Symposium - 30th Anniversary | Friday, May 9, 2025 | Center for the Humanities - Wesleyan University

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)

Hi #CaribbeanStudies/#AtlanticStudies people, I wanted to bring this opportunity to your attention. @dlocaribbean.bsky.social is accepting proposals for Open Educational Resources. ‼️ CFP: #OER in #CaribbeanStudies 👉 Proposals due April 14, 2025 ℹ️ Info: tinyurl.com/OER-Caribbean

Congratulations to Wasafiri contributor Anthony V Capildeo on winning the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry this year! In celebration, we've made an interview between them and Palestinian writer Yousif M Qasmiyeh free access until 30 April: buff.ly/8sYBpuQ

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.

🚨Deadline extended to April 12th!🚨

Check out the first in the new series of blogs by JWIL. In this blog Michael Soriano focuses on the newly launched open-access journal Manchineel + Seagrape, which is dedicated to publishing edited scripts of Caribbean plays. www.jwilonline.org/jwil-blog-po...

So happy to announce the launch of my new book, A SENSE OF ARRIVAL (Duke, 2025)! The launch will take place at Medulla Art Gallery on Apr 16 and will feature guest readings by Wendell Manwarren, Shivanee N. Ramlochan, and others. An exhibition of works featured in the book will run until April 23.

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...

Registration for the 48th Annual SCS Conference is now open! 🥳 This year the conference will be held at the University of Bristol 2-4 July 2025. For more info, and to register, please see: community-languages.org.uk/scs/2653-2/ We can't wait to see you there!

Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight countries have been shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

Danielle Legros Georges joined sx salon as Creative Editor in 2022. Prior to taking up the role, she was a repeat contributor. This thread briefly highlights her poetic contributions to sx salon.

A conversation between two authors who, starting from different frameworks, shine a light on the intersections of race and the ever-changing contours of climate risk in their new books. www.eventbrite.com/e/choreograp... @blackccny.bsky.social @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social @emilyraboteau.bsky.social

“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...