TORONTO July 11 2026 by Neil Armstrong/Gleaner Writer Tania Hernandez, also known as Miss Tania Lou, and Nadia L. Hohn have been so inspired by the life of Jamaica’s late cultural ambassador, Louise Bennett-Coverley, popularly known as Miss Lou, that they have created works to honour her legacy. Hernandez, who was born in Jamaica and … Continue reading Ontario artistes keeping the legacy of Miss Lou alive
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Photo: Professor Natalie Wood, centre, with colleagues and guests at William Peyton Hubbard Atrium naming event, February 5, 2026. March 13, 2026 George Brown Polytechnic professor and researcher Natalie Wood has been awarded the Michael Baptista Essay Prize by York University’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC). Wood, a professor in the Social Service Worker program and co-designer of the Black Futures Research Institute, … Continue reading George Brown Professor Natalie Wood wins Michael Baptista Essay Prize
January 19, 2026 (Toronto, ON) – The Mantella Corporation and the Giller Foundation are addressing a critical gap in Canadian literature with the return of the Giller Mantella Scholarship for a third consecutive year, representing a $90,000 investment. While racialized people make up over 26% of the population, BIPOC authors remain significantly underrepresented in Canadian publishing, literary prizes, and … Continue reading The Giller Mantella Scholarship Continues to Address Canadian Literature’s Access Gap
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction Fiction Non Fiction February 12, 2026 Novelist Eleanor Shearer joins co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss her new novel, Fireflies in Winter, which depicts the little-known history of how the Leeward Maroons of Jamaica—a free Black community descended from formerly enslaved Africans and indigenous … Continue reading Eleanor Shearer on Migrants in Hiding and a Caribbean History of Canada
David Dabydeen December 28, 2025 Award-winning academic and Guyana Prize recipient David Dabydeen says he has been officially nominated for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature by European and Chinese scholars, making this one of the rare occasions that a small nation has a nominee. “I am happy that I come from a small country. … Continue reading Guyanese David Dabydeen nominated for 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
Just became aware of this online magazine for new Caribbean literature...PREE. PREE is a unique online magazine for new contemporary writing from and about the Caribbean. We publish original works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and experimental writing, giving our authors international visibility far beyond the islands. We aim to engage each other as well … Continue reading PREE…an online magazine for writing from and about the Caribbean
When and Where Wednesday, October 08, 2025 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm D.G. Ivey Library 20 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1 Join us (U of T Centre for Caribbean Studies) for a captivating evening with renowned Jamaican writer, Olive Senior, at the D.G Ivey Library (University of Toronto). This event is a unique opportunity to hear from one of the most … Continue reading An Evening with Jamaican Writer: Olive Senior
Here is a post from the blog Caribbean Authors... Karen Barrow is a Trinidad-born Canadian author. Her post-secondary studies brought her to Canada, where she eventually settled. Years later, Karen fulfilled a lifelong dream by combining a love of storytelling with her passion for travel to inspire her historical fiction novels. Palmyra, her debut novel, won the … Continue reading Some Summer Reading…
The University of the West Indies Press (UWI Press) is pleased to announce that two of its publications have received distinguished Caribbean awards. “Near a Plantation: Free Villages of Barbados, 1840-1945” by Professor Emeritus Sir Woodville Marshall has received the 2025 Elsa Goveia Memorial Book Prize. This biennial award, presented by the Association of Caribbean Historians, … Continue reading UWI Press Takes Home Two Prestigious Caribbean Awards
Annie Jomphe is the proud author of Sailing Back to Life, which was just released less than two weeks ago. The book chronicles the two years Jomphe, her husband and three young children spent two full years on a 45-foot sailing boat in the Caribbean Islands.Penticton Herald July 1, 2025 Keith Lacey, Local Journalism Initiative … Continue reading New book details family’s two-year sailing journey to the Caribbean islands