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Inaugural St. George’s University writer-in-residence announced

20/12/2013

 
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St. George’s University, Grenada, and CaribLit, the Caribbean Literature Action Group, are pleased to announce that Trinidadian Lisa Allen-Agostini has been chosen as the 2014 Dame Hilda Bynoe Writer-in-Residence at SGU.

Intended to support a Caribbean writer in completing a work in progress, and to expose both the SGU academic community and the Grenadian community to the contemporary Caribbean literary scene, the writer-in-residence programme will run for the first time in 2014, from January to May.

The inaugural writer-in-residence, Lisa Allen-Agostini, was selected by a panel of writers and editors on the basis of her current work in progress and well as her potential to contribute to the SGU community. Allen-Agostini is a writer of both prose and poetry. Her young adult novel The Chalice Project was published in 2009, and she is also co-editor of the Trinidad Noir fiction anthology. She writes a weekly column for the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, and she is the founder of the Allen Prize for Young Writers, a programme that works to support and reward writers aged 12 to 19 in Trinidad and Tobago. Allen-Agostini was also shortlisted for the 2013 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize.

During her SGU residency, she will work on completing both a novel and a collection of poems. She will also lead workshops in creative writing, mentor and support local writers, and give public readings of her work.

“I’m honoured to be the inaugural St. George’s University Writer-in-Residence,” says Allen-Agostini. “It’s not often that a writer gets such a generous opportunity, and a four-month stay in a different environment where I can focus completely on writing will no doubt help me complete some work I have been engaged with for some time.”

The selection panel was chaired by scholar Antonia MacDonald, Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, at SGU. Other members were St. Lucian poet and playwright Kendel Hippolyte; Jamaican writer and scholar Andrea Shaw; and Trinidadian Nicholas Laughlin, editor of The Caribbean Review of Books and programme director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. In announcing Allen-Agostini’s selection, the panel noted both the promise of her current work in progress in several genres, and her broad experience in teaching and mentoring emerging writers at various levels.


Save The Date: Regional Conference On Ip & Creative Industries

20/12/2013

 
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The Jamaica Intellectual Property Office (JIPO) in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will be hosting the Regional Conference on Intellectual Property & Creative Industries from February 10-12, 2014.
 
More details to come soon!!

Creative Writing, Prose Fiction Readings at UWI (Mona)

5/12/2013

 
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The Department of Literatures in English, UWI, Mona will be hosting readings by the students in the LITS 2604: Creative Writing, Prose Fiction course taught by Writer-in-Residence, Dr Erna Brodber. These readings will on Wednesday December 11, 2013 at 3:00pm, in room N5, Faculty of Humanities and Education. You are invited to come and enjoy the presentations.

WIR Applicants Short-Listed

4/12/2013

 
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CaribLit has short-listed the applicants to the first Dame Hilda Bynoe Writer-in–Residence Programme 2014 at St. George’s University. 

Look out for our announcement of the selected writer on December 20.

Learn more about the WIR Programme.


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