Deane among 10 Caribbean writers vying for top prize
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The 2021 long list for the region’s only prize for emerging writers, the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP), has been announced by the Bocas Lit Fest.
Of the ten writers who have been longlisted for the third and last edition of the Johnson and Amoy Achong Prize, eight of them are from Trinidad and Tobago, one from Guyana and one from Barbados, the previous award-winning Linda Deane.
This unique award is dedicated to advancing the work of an emerging Caribbean voice in the poetry genre; the 2019 and 2020 prizes were for fiction and non-fiction respectively.