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The Archive
List of Caribbean/International Creative Writing Competitions (Now & Then) Non-Restrictive Writing Competitions (Past & Present) Deadline Competition Link Status February 15, 2022 Caribbean Magazine Plus (CMP) Short Story Contest http://www.caribmagplus.com/short-story-contest-eligibility-rules/ Closed May 25, 2022 Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival (CEBF) competition https://www.birdscaribbean.org/2022/04/calling-all-caribbean-nationals-we-are-hosting-a-story-poetry-competition/ Closed September 24, 2022 Booksie 2022 Short Story Competition https://theplazaprizes.com/competition/sudden-fiction/ Closed November 1, 2022 Commonwealth Short…
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A Story Rewritten
by Natalia Downer Below – and how it pains me so – I have attached a short story that I had begun writing for the PSCCA Short Story competition, only to later read the fine print and realize that, in order to actually have a chance of winning at all – not by my craft…
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Godforsaken Globalization
By Natalia Downer “Create and Celebrate or be Cast Aside?” – Godforsaken Globalization Photo by Ravi Kant: https://www.pexels.com/photo/word-define-on-spelling-dictionary-page-5929346/ There is a conversation going around concerning the issue of the modernization of cultures – which came as a result of globalization – destroying tradition. One source specifically tackles this conversation, paying close attention to novels written…
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Crazy Contradictions
By Natalia Downer “Create and Celebrate or be Cast Aside?” – Crazy Contradictions In the Caribbean, we celebrate when Jamaicans are published by foreign publishers; we revel in the fact that we are recognized by people who once colonized and enslaved us. Take Cyril Lionel Robert James (CLR James) for instance, a Trinidadian historian, journalist…
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The Purpose
By Natalia Downer “Create and Celebrate or be Cast Aside?” – an Introduction There is a very unfortunate misunderstanding – as I like to put it – that is tangled in the meaning of ‘Jamaican’. It is a misunderstanding that has been uprooting the individuality of each and every Jamaican, devaluing/ undermining the individual experience.…
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Jamaican Artists – Afrofuturism
Idris Veitch Digital and Mixed Media Artist Fashion Design Background Veitch’s work here [Veitch explores] themes of intercultural fusion with a series of digital collages titled “African Masks X Ukiyoe”. Veitch’s current body of work represents a natural evolution with a combination of bright colours, contrasting elements and nods to Afrofuturism. About Idris Veitch –…
Sylvia Wynter's Dream 