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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. ....
by Bajan Reporter / February 19th, 2021 Linda M. Deane took the $10,000 top prize at the 23rd Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition. Her collection of poems, “ An Ocean Away; My Mother Smiling: Tales of Migration and Memory” beat out more than 60 other entries to take the top spot in the long-running Central Bank of Barbados-sponsored writing contest. Deane’s win was announced during a virtual awards ceremony that featured readings from the top four finalists. Poets swept the top spots, with second prize being awarded jointly to Carlyon Blackman for her anthology, “All Oppression is Connected” and Jacinth Howard for her collection “The Mother Island”. Blackman and Howard each received ....
Deane takes top literary prize worth $10 000 Article by Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition. Her collection of poems, An Ocean Away; My Mother Smiling: Tales of Migration and Memory beat out more than 60 other entries to take the top spot in the long-running Central Bank of Barbados-sponsored writing contest. Deane’s win was announced during a virtual awards ceremony on Sunday that featured readings from the top four finalists. Poets swept the top spots, with second prize being awarded jointly to Carlyon Blackman for her anthology, All Oppression Is Connected and Jacinth Howard for her collection The Mother Island. Blackman and Howard each received $5,000. No third prize was awarded due to the second-place tie. Zoanne Evans received the ....