Toggle Sidebar 23rd Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Awards take place virtually The full title of this article is “Literature Powerful: Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Awards take place virtually.” The first prize winner was Linda M. Deane (shown above) for her poetry collection An Ocean Away, My Mother Smiling: Tales of Migration and Memory. See Barbados Advocate for original post. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Authors across the Caribbean have been called on to recognise and realise their potential as regional works come from a place of power. This from celebrated Haitian writer Évelyne Trouillot as she delivered the keynote address on Sunday night during the 23rd Annual Frank Collymore Literary Endowment.