N.B. For genre specific listings see Fiction Writers, Non Fiction Writers, Poets, Screen and Play Writers, Children’s Fiction/Poetry Writers, Song Writers, or past Wadadli Pen Winners (2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012).
I (Joanne C. Hillhouse) started putting this list together back in 2005 for the Independence literary arts exhibition at the national Museum; I’ve been editing and updating it ever since. I’ve tried to include books by Antiguan and Barbudan writers, both born and ‘adopted’, as well books by Antiguan descendents born elsewhere; some by writers with non-specific connections to the island who nonetheless feature Antigua prominently in their writings may also make the cut. I’m trying to make it as complete as possible. Due mostly to time constraints, I haven’t included here every publication a writer may have been anthologized or excerpted in although I’ll try to do so if they’re the editor or if it’s their first and/or primary publication. Any errors and/or omissions are unintentional. Just let me know and I’ll add ‘em. But it should be noted, the list is not exhaustive as, solely at my discretion, I’ve limited it to writers with a book or CD, and have omitted publication in journals and/or periodicals purely as a matter of containment. I’ve started a list for journal publications also Reviews of published works plus song lyricists, screenwriters and playwrights, as well, and will continue to build on them, time allowing. And, before you ask, no I have not read them all…but I’ll get there. Finally, no problem with people utilizing or sharing the list, but a lot of time went into doing this, so please give credit where due and link back to us. Thanks.
POETS
Name: Rilys Adams
CD:
Laid Bare. 2009. Chosen Sounds. Antigua.
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Name: Sylvanus Barnes
Photo by Gemma Hazelwood (@ 2006 Wadadli Pen fundraiser, Word Up!)
Excerpt:
“I’ve never been to heaven/an angel’s harp to hear/but when I hear a steel pan/I feel that I am there.” [from A Harp of Gold in Barney’s Wit ‘n Wisdom]
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Name: Irene Browne-Bowen
Books:
Literary Collection No. II. 1997.
Literary Collection No. I. 1995.
***
Name: Roy H. S. Dublin
Books:
Tomorrow’s Blossoms. 1934, Magnet Printery; 2010, SCRIP-J, Trinidad/Entertainment Bazaar, Antigua.
(published in 1934 to commemorate the tercentenary year of the colonization of Antigua and the centenary year of emancipation. Awarded the King’s Medal.).
Thoughts from Benwar Hill. ?
Out of the Unknown. 1932.
***
Name: Bille Dyer
Book:
As Man Ascends.
***
Name: Veronica Evanson Bernard
Books:
Pineapple Rhymes [w/illustrations by Eddie Granderson]. 1989. Blackwood Press. Atlanta.
Coconut Walk.
Excerpt:
“History’s not about great kings and wars/and empires and countries and things beyond our shores./History’s, too, what people do, common people like me and you/and that’s the real meaning of songs by Quarkoo.” [Coconut Walk]
UPDATE: Note re Dr. Bernard’s passing.
***
Name: N. Erna Mae Francis
Books:
How to Thrive in Trying Times. 2009. AuthorHouse.
Poetic Vibes to Help You Thrive.
It’s Time for a Change. 1996.
***
Name: Eileen Hall Luke
Books:
The Fountain and the Bough. 1938.
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Name: Lauchland Henry
Books:
The Professional’s Guide to Working Smarter. 1988. Burrill-Elsworth Associates. USA.
Talk to Me. 1979. L H Publications. USA.
Touch Me Inside. 1975. High Q Publications. USA.
UPDATE: More on Henry in Tim Hector’s Fan the Flame.
***
Name: Agnes Cecilia Hewlett-Carrington
Book:
Allo et au ‘Voir. 1972. London.
***
Name: Sheryl Inigo Joseph
Book:
Poetry and Reality.
***
Name: Dotsie Isaac-Gellizeau
Photo by Laura Hall (@ 2006 Wadadli Pen fundraiser, Word Up!)
CD:
Ab-SOUL-utely Dotsie. 2004. Antigua.
Excerpt:
“The almighty one breathed life into her plan/made me in her image/and called me Woman.”
[from My Name is Woman on ab-SOUL-uteley Dotsie]
***
Name: Sylvester Itoyah
Books:
She Stood Naked. 1996.
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Name: Tameka Jarvis
Works:
Talking in Tongues (lyrics for Naki song on Tin-pan riddim). 2011.
Ugly. 2011. Wadadli Studios (verse for short film). Antigua.
Unexpected. 2010. Enaz Publications. (as Tameka Jarvis-George). USA.
Dinner. 2010. Cinque Productions (short film based on poem of the same name from the collection Thoughts from the Pharcyde). Antigua.
I am. 2005. Hidden Brook Press. Canada.
I am that I am. 2000. Watermark Press. USA.
Thoughts from the Pharcyde. 1999. Hidden Brook Press. Canada.
Excerpt:
“When this trip is over/I’ll beg for another hit of you/your addictive love/the love that continues to make and break me.”
[fromJunkie in Thoughts from the Pharcyde]
***
Name: Joseph Jermaine
Books:
Creative Thoughts. 2002.
***
Name: Clifton Joseph
Books:
Chuckie Prophecy, *footnote to the end of a love affair, RITES/FOR WALTER RODNEY in In the Black: New African Canadian Literature (edited by Althea Prince). 2012. Insomniac Press. Canada.
Metropolitan Blues. 1983. Domestic Bliss. Toronto. Excerpt: “in dis here COLD/COLD/COLD NORTHERN CLIME TIME WILL COME AROUND WHEN CHUCKIE'S DISGRUNTLED FROWNS WILL SEND SKYSCRAPERS/ON/FIRE TUMBLING DOWN” [from Chuckie Prophesy in Metropolitan Blues]
***
Name: Kamau Ode Lasana
Books:
Roadside Prophet & Other Poems. 2000. Blackground Productions. Canada.
***
Name: Joy Lawrence
Books:
The History of Bethesda and Christian Hill: Our History and Culture. 2008. Antigua.
Colours and Rhythms of Selected Caribbean Creoles. 2003. Antigua.
The Way We Talk and Other Antiguan Folkways. 2002, 2003. Antigua.
Island Spice. 1996. 1997. Antigua.
Excerpt:
“Pregnant clouds darkened with labour pains/gave birth/replenishing the earth with new life.” [from Showers in Island Spice]
***
Name: Iyaba Ibo Mandingo
Books:
41 Times: Poems. 2000. Iyabarts. USA.
N.B. see other books and credits in the playwriting listing.
***
Name: Fransene Massiah-Headley
Books:
Pepperpot…A Caribbean Woman’s Story…Poems for the Stage. 
2008. Dominica.
***
Name: Carolyn Matthew Nation
Books:
Poetry for Life. 2009. Trafford Publishing.
***
Name: Hilda McDonald
Books:
Sunflakes and Stardust: Caribbean and other poems by Hilda Macdonald. 1956.Ross-on-Wye, Writers’ Guild, U.K.
Note: “…my grandmother, Hilda McDonald, first woman member of the Antiguan House of Assembly, whose small booklet of verse Sunflakes and Stardust, contains some lovely pieces which I treasure to this day…She told me she greatly regretted not writing more but, she said, ‘Poetry takes infinite time and I never made enough time for it. We all have enough time but very few make enough time for important things.’” [excerpted from the address given by Dr Ian McDonald at the Frank Collymore Literary Awards in Barbados, on January 10, 2009 as posted here]
***
Name: Franklin Michael
Books:
published in Out of the Stars 2. 1976
***
Name: Vivian Michael
Works:
Words Left Unsaid and My Inspiration in Collective Soul Volume One. 1998. Chrysalis. Antigua.
Excerpt:
“each poem is a part of me/old memories, new feelings, dreams and nightmares…” [from My Inspiration in Collective Soul]
***
Name: Motion.
Books/CDs:
Locks and Love, Graf, SheLand*, Be Girl in In the Black: New African Canadian Literature (edited by Althea Prince). 2012. Insomniac Press. Canada.
40 Dayz. 2008. Canadian Scholars Press.
Motion in Poetry. 2002. Women’s Press. Canada.
Excerpt:
“Queen Nzinga looks on as we swing our small axes/through the forests of fearsome shadows that mean us no good.” [from Black Woman Rage in Motion in Poetry]
***
Name: Elaine Olaoye
Books:
Passions of the Soul. Second Edition, 2002. Northwind Publishers. New Jersey.
Excerpt:
“Let a dying civilization bury its dead. You have survived its most sinister dread.” [from On Becoming an Afro American in Passions of the Soul]
**
Name: Germaine Owen.
Books:
I Could Fly Like a Bird. 2003. Trafford Publishing. Canada.
**
Name: J. Nerissa Percival
Books:
The Souls of My Young Sisters. Various writers including Nerissa Percival and Floree Williams. Edited by Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy. 2010.
Butterfly in the Sunlight. 2006. iuniverse.com
Butterfly in the Moonlight. 
2006. Iuniverse.com
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Name: Sislyn Peters
Books:
Shades of a Colonial Coloured. 2009. AuthorHouse.
A Little Souvenir in Poetry. 2008. AuthorHouse.
Undocumented Citizen. 2007. AuthorHouse.
A Souvenir of Antigua in Poetry. 2006. AuthorHouse.
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Name: Rowan Ricardo Philips
Books:
Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth - as translator (book written by Salvador Espriu) – 2012. Dalkey Archive Press.
The Ground: Poems. 2012. Farrar Straus & Giroux. USA.
When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness. 2010. Dalkey Archive Press.
Excerpt:
“I keep returning to blackness and blackness, time and time./Blackness with blackness, then time. From disinterested rhyme/to obsessed.” [from On Bard and Balladry in Robert Hayden An Essay in Verse in the Kenyon Review]
***
Name: Conrad Powell-Clarke
Books:
Triskaidekaiphobia. Info re release not available.
***
Name: John Prince
Books: Reflections. Baas Press. 2010.
***
Name: Mary Geo Quinn
Photo by Laura Hall (@ 2006 Wad Pen fundraiser, Word Up!)
Selected Works:
Sugar Mill Gems. 1993.
Lest We Forget – Patriotic Poems. 1993.
Heart to Heart
A Stormy Tale
Winthorpean Echoes: A Collection of Poems
All of the Women of the Bible. 1976.
Excerpts:
“Lest we forget, tell us again and again
About our forefathers strong
Who toiled for their captors in sun and in rain
And lived to triumph over this great wrong”
[Lest we forget]
***
Name: James H. Richmond
Books:
Reflections of Today. 1993
***
Name: Althea Romeo-Mark
Selected Works:
If Only the Dust Would Settle. 
2009. AuthorHouse.
Beyond Dream: The Ritual Dancer. 1989.
Two Faces; Two Phases. 1984.
Palaver: West Indian Poems. 1978.
The Silent Dancing Spirit. 1974.
Excerpt:
“ah never see a man/so brazen an’ bol’/he forget how he ol’/dancin’ to de steelband/twistin’ up he waist/can hardly keep de pace/can hardly keep de pace.” [from Carnival Stray in The Caribbean Writer Volume 10]
***
Name: Mansa Trotman
Books:
Listen, Marrow, Sundays in In the Black: New African Canadian Literature (edited by Althea Prince). 2012. Insomniac Press. Canada.
The Space that Connects us. 2012. TSAR Publications. Canada.
***
Name: Beverly Watkins
Books:
Inna Me Twang. 1998.
In our Path. 1997.
Excerpt:
“We inch circuitously in your queue/For an hour or more, though we are few./Then, when we reach the top of the line/you put up your sign/with your bantering smile/saying, ‘Next Teller Please.’” [from You Bank in Inna Me Twang]
**
Name: LCH Wescott
Selected Works:
The Garden of Life. 1999.
**
FICTION
Name: Clinton U. Benjamin
Books:
Belinda. 2000. Pentland Press.
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Name: Brenda Lee Browne
Books:
Diary from the Wet Side of the Moon [excerpt] in New Writing: Poetry and Prose. 2001. Shoe String Press. England.
Diary from the Wet Side of the Moon [excerpt] in The Hoot and Holler of the Owls: An Anthology of Writers from Hurston-Wright Writers Week. 2003. USA.
Excerpt:
“…I want to be a ‘Classic’ – with fluidity of movement, in ambition, achievements – hard bound with crisp interior and words, meaningful and deliberate. A ‘Classic’ to be taken up and not put down. Treasured but used, not negligently but in ‘love’. A ‘Classic’ with rules for living that are neither too archaic nor too abstract but proven, reliable.” [from Living the Novel in Woman’s Place, 1990]
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Name: Edson Buntin
Books:
Anu Bantu: Treasure Island and Haunted Park. Antigua. 2007.
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Name: Freida Cassin
Books:
With Silent Thread. 1890. G A Uphill. St. John’s. [subsequently re-issued by Macmillan]
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Name: Alvin Glen Edwards
Books: Once in an Island. 2012. Antigua.
*adapted from his 2009 film of the same name.
***
Names: Oliver Flax & Joy Clarke
Joy Clarke was the author of ‘De Trip’ and Oliver Flax, also a member of Little Theatre and author of various other works, was the author of ‘Tantie Gertrude’, both published in Macmillan’s 1973 book Backfire. This was a collection of seventeen Caribbean short stories compiled for use in secondary schools. It embraced old and new West Indian writing from the 1930’s up to the time of its publication.
***
Name: Claudia Elizabeth Ruth Francis
Books:
The Road to Wadi Halfa. 2008. SPS Publications. Florida.
Tides that Bind.
A Bigger Island.
Island Issues. 2003.
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Name: Joanne C. Hillhouse
Books:
Sexy Sadie in For Women: In Tribute to Nina Simone (edited by Debra Powell-Wright). 2012. Black Classic Press & MZWrightNow Productions. USA.
Man of her Dreams in In the Black: New African Canadian Literature (edited by Althea Prince). 2012. Insomniac Press. Canada.
Oh Gad! – 2012. Strebor/Atria/Simon & Schuster. USA.
The Boy from Willow Bend. 2009. Hansib. UK. (first printing 2003. Macmillan. Oxford).
Dancing Nude in the Moonlight. 2004. Macmillan. Oxford.
On Becoming [as jhohadli]. 2003.
Excerpt:
“When Jazz touched her, pulling her out of herself, she swore she could feel where it pressed against phantom bruises and she let the pain pull her back, back to this too-pretty-to-be-true place that she’d never really trusted.” [from Oh Gad!]
Go here for poetry and short story in journal publications.
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Name: D. Gisele Isaac
Photo by Sonji Davis
Works:
No Seed. 2002. HAMA Productions. [screenplay]
The Sweetest Mango. 2001. HAMA Productions. [screenplay]
Considering Venus.1998. Seaburn Publishing. NY.
Excerpt:
Love: “I thought you said it was God’s country?”
Judah: “God’s country but is man run it.” [from The Sweetest Mango]
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Name: Akilah A. Jardine
Books:
Marisha’s Drama. 
2007. DMS Publications. Antigua.
Living Life the Way I Love It. 2006. DMS Publications. Antigua.
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Name: Marie Elena John
Books:
Unburnable. 2006. Amistad. USA.
Excerpt:
“Lillian’s mother, Iris, was known throughout the island for a number of distinct characteristics: the women would say that chief among them were her uncommon beauty, the fact that her skin was reputed to actually glow in the dark, and the nasty cussing she directed at anyone who crossed her path when she was drunk beyond a certain point.” – from Unburnable
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Name: Jamaica Kincaid
Selected Books:
Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas. 2005. National Geographic Society.
Mr. Potter. 2002. Farrar Strauss Giroux. NY.
My Garden (Book). 2001. Farrar Strauss Giroux. NY.
Life and Debt (a film by Stephanie Mack; written by Jamaica Kincaid). 2001. New Yorker Films. USA.
My Brother. 1997. Farrar Strauss Giroux. NY.
The Autobiography of My Mother. 1996. Farrar Strauss Giroux. NY.
At the Bottom of the River. [originally published 1983]. 1992. Plume.
Lucy. 1991. Plume. NY.
A Small Place. 1988. Farrar Strauss Giroux. NY.
Annie John. 
1985. Penguin Books. NY.
Excerpt:
“I felt myself being swallowed up in a large vapor of sadness…I became afraid that he would die before I saw him again…It surprised me that I loved him; I could see that was what I was feeling, love for him, and it surprised me because I did not know him at all.”
[From My Brother]
*****
Name: Edgar O. Lake
Selected Books:
The Devil’s Bridge. 2004. Athena Pr Pub Co.
Excerpt:
“The heavens flashed and thunder echoed across the open space, a peculiar light filled the canvas with momentary shadows and figures frozen in a past time.” [from The Devil’s Bridge]
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Name: Marcel Marshall
Books:
All that Glitters is Not Gold. 
Dorrance Publishing. 2008.
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Name: Jelani Nias
Books:
Bottles’ Hustle, Graduation in In the Black: New African Canadian Literature (edited by Althea Prince). 2012. Insomniac Press. Canada.
******
Name: Dobrene E. O. Marde
Book:
Send Out You Hand. 2012. Hansib. UK.
*For his plays, go here.
*** ****** ****
Name: Dr.Althea Prince
Books:
In the Black: New African Canadian Literature (Editor, author – Push, They Buried her Mother Twice). 2012. Insomniac Press. Canada.
The Politics of Black Women’s Hair. 2009. Insomniac Press. Canada.
Feminisms and Womanisms: A Women’s Studies Reader [edited by Althea Prince with Susan Silva-Wayne with assistance from Christian Vernon]. 2004. Women’s Press. Canada.
Being Black. 2001. Insomniac Press. Canada.
Loving this Man. 
2001. Insomniac Press. Canada.
Ladies of the Night and other stories. 1998. Sister Vision. Canada. [Reissued in 2005 by Insomniac Press]
How the Starfish got to the Sea. 1992. Sister Vision. Canada.
How the East Pond got its Flowers. 1991. Sister Vision. Canada.
Excerpt:
“I want everything to go out from me. There is no room for them in the bath pan under my bed.” from Loving This Man
*****
Name: Ralph Prince
Books:
Jewels of the Sun. 1979.
*A note re Ralph Prince: Ralph Prince lived in the U.K.for many years, working as a journalist for the BBC. Later, while resident in Guyana, he edited ‘The Demba Digest’, a publication of the Demba Bauxite Company. He later returned home, where his pursuits included archeological research, before his death, of natural causes, in 1985. Throughout his writing life, Prince, eldest brother of famed scribe Althea Prince, contributed to several anthologies, a dictionary of Caribbeanlanguage, and a short story collection, Jewels of the Sun. After his death, a literary journal, entitled ‘Prince Literary Journal’, was created in his honour.
** ** **
Name: Elaine Spires
Books:
Sweet Lady. 2013. Antigua/UK.
Singles’ Holiday. 2012. Antigua/UK.
What’s Eating Me? 2011. Antigua/UK.
***
Name: Leon Chaku Symister
Chaku reading at the Wadadli Pen Word Up! fundraiser in 2006. (Photo by Laura Hall)
Books:
From the Depths of My Naked Soul: Chaku Writes. 1999. Caribbean Diaspora Press Inc., NY.
Under the Calabash Tree: Caribbean Short Stories. 2000. Caribbean Diaspora Press, Inc., NY.
Excerpt:
“The way she dressed gave all the signals of a woman ready to do battle. Those who used to come to curse Teacher seemed to have a motto “come as you is”. Stumpy’s mother’s head was tied with a piece of vest, partially hiding her uncombed hair, a low-cut dress with the left brassiere strap showing. I don’t know why but every woman that ever came to curse teacher always had the left brassiere strap showing.” [from School Call Ine in Under the Calabash Tree]
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Name: (Various); compiled by Lucilla Benjamin and illustrated by Gerald Codrington.
Books:
Young Antiguans Write: A Selection of Prize Winning Poetry 1968 – 1978. 1979. Ministry of Education. Antigua and Barbuda.
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Name: Andy E. Williams
Books:
In the Rum Shop and Other Flash Fiction. 2009. Browne’s Avenue Press. Canada.
Anthology of Words [Ed]. 2009. Browne’s Avenue Press. Canada.
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CHILDREN’S FICTION
Name: Barbara Arrindell.
Books:
The Legend of Bat’s Cave and Other Antiguan Stories (w/illustrations by Edison Liburd). 2012.
Antigua my Antigua (w/illustrations by Edison Liburd). 2011.
***
Name: Deshawn J Browne
Books:
The Little Rude Boys/Girls. 2010. Dr. Noel Howell (publisher). Antigua.
***
Name: Ashley Bryan
Ashley Bryan, third from left, with, left to right, Edward Albee, Nora Ephron, and Salman Rushdie – co-honourees at a New York Public Library event
Selected Books:
Beautiful Blackbird (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award Winner). 2003. Atheneum; 1st edition.
Ashley Bryan’s African Tales, Uh-Huh. 1998. Atheneum; 1st edition.
Turtle Knows Your Name. Aladdin, 1993; Atheneum, 1989.
The Dancing Granny. Rep ed. Aladdin, 1987; 1st Aladdin ed., 1980; Atheneum, 1977.
Excerpt:
“Upsilimana Tumpalerado, / That’s my name. / I took my time to learn it, / Won’t you do the same?” [from Turtle Knows Your Name]
***
Name: Jolyon Byerly
Books:
Shadows on the Moon: A Lizard and Bungle Adventure [w/Katie Shears]. 1998. Macmillan. UK.
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Name: Rachel Collis
Books: Emerald Isle of Adventure. 2008. Surge. USA.
****
Name: Melinda Fletcher
Books: The Dancing Pyjamas. 2012. AuthorHouse. USA.
***
Name: Carol Faye George
Mari Warner series of environmentally themed comic books e.g. Mari Warner and Recycling (all self-published by the author)
****
Name: Shannon Gilligan
Book: Ghost Island (Choose Your Own Adventure Series)*. 2008. Chooseco.
*non-Antiguan author but book set in Antigua according to product description.
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Name: S. E. James
Books:
Kidnapped at the Beach [w/illustrations by Lyndel Benjamin]. 2003. Sharon Publications.
A Narrow Escape [w/illustrations by Lyndel Benjamin]. 2003. Sharon Publications. Antigua.
Tragedy on Emerald Island [w/illustrations by Lyndel Benjamin]. 2002. Sharon Publications. Antigua.
Excerpt:
“The wind rushed in and started to tear up the little house. I caught sight of Uncle Fred hobbling to his bedroom without the aid of his walking stick, so I followed, only to see him hop into his clothes closet leaving me to fend for myself.” [from Tragedy on Emerald Island]
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Name: Omari Jeremiah
Books:
Paperboy 4. 2007.
Paperboy 3: The School of Doom. 2006.
Paperboy II: Overwhelming Odds. 2005. Morton Books. New Jersey.
Paperboy. 2004. Morton Books. New Jersey.
Excerpt: “All of LOEP vs. Paperboy. The odds were definitely not in his favour. However, Michael did not have a choice. If he lost, all of the students would fall into the bullies’ hands. He could not let this happen.” [from Paperboy]
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Name: Sara Louise Kras
Books:
Antigua and Barbuda (Cultures of the World). 2008. Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books. Singapore.
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Name: Alscess Lewis-Brown.
Books:
Moko Jumbi Dreams. Little Bell Caribbean. USVI. 2012.
Efa and the Mosquito. 
Little Bell Caribbean. USVI. 2010.
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Name: Edison Liburd (illustrator)
Book: Balloons. Dr. John Calvin Alberty (author). Alberty. USA. 1999.
Book: Antigua My Antigua. Barbara Arrindell (author). Antigua. 2011.
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Name: Amos Morrill
Book: Augusta and Elliott. Island Nation Press LLC/Turtles Too Limited. 2007.
About: A charming, richly illustrated book about Augusta and Elliott’s efforts to keep the ocean clean. Written and illustrated by Amos Morrill, a native New Yorker, who has lived for most of his life in the Leeward Islands. An interior designer
who has also created fabrics and furnishings, Amos brings his unique sense of whimsy to this simply written message for children of all ages: to cherish and protect our natural resources.
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Name: Jenny Stow
Book: The House that Jack Built. Frances Lincoln. 2009.
About: Author and illustrator Jenny Stow, who has lived in Antigua, brings a fresh take to the timeless tale of “the dog that worried the cat” and “the rat that ate the malt” in Jack’s house with paint, ink, and crayon collage technique using sponges and rollers.
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Name: Stacey Towle Morgan
Books: Adventure in the Caribbean. Bethany House Publishers. 1996. USA.
About: In Adventure in the Caribbean, Hope and Annie take a trip to sunny Antigua in the West Indies. There, the sisters make a new friend a young Antiguan girl named Zoe. When Zoe and the girls discover a hidden map, they set out on an exciting search for treasure. Will they find it before the Browns have to go home? (http://www.amazon.com/Adventure-Caribbean-Ruby-Slippers-School/dp/1556616007)
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NON FICTION
Name: Elizabeth Abbott 
Partial Bibliography:
A History of Marriage. 2010. Penguin. Canada.
Sugar: A Bittersweet History*. 2008. Penguin. Canada.
Haiti: The Duvaliers and their Legacy. 1988. McGraw-Hill. USA.
Tropical Obsession: A Universal Tragedy in Four Acts Set in Haiti. 1986. Edition Deschamps. Haiti.
*inspired by her Antiguan heritage.
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Name: June Ambrose
Books:
Effortless Style. 2006. Simon Spotlight Enterainment. USA.
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Name: Alexis Andrews
Books:
Images. Indian Creek Books. 2007.
Vanishing Ways (Volume I: Sailing on the last Carriacou Sloops). 
Indian Creek Books. 2008.
Genesis. (Volume II: Building a Traditional Carriacou Sloop). Indian Creek Books. 2008.
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Name: Theodore Archibald
Books:
Marriage: God’s Wonderful Gift of Love. CSS Publishing Company. 2000. USA.
The Winding Path to America. CSS Publishing Company. 1996. USA.
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Names: Susan Lowes, Riva Berleant-Schiller, and Milton Benjamin,
Book: Antigua and Barbuda (World Bibliographical Series). ABC-Clio. 1995. USA.
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Name: Lester Bird
Books:
Antigua Vision – Caribbean Reality: Perspectives of Prime Minister Lester Bryant Bird. 2002. Hansib. London.
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Name: Nicola Bird
Books: The Boomerang Effect: How You Can Take Charge of Your Life. 2011. iuniverse.
*** ********** ***
Name: Marilyn Chiddick-Hodge
Books: Positive Living Volume 1. 2010.
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Name: Chante U. Codrington
Books:
Why we are…Where we are…Who we are!: Empowering Ourselves through hardwork and education. 2009. iUniverse.com. USA.
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Name: Cush David
- Kush DaVid Photo by Laura Hall (@ the 2006 Wadadli Pen fundraiser, Word Up!)
Books:
The Dynamics of an Artistic Patriot: A Biography of Reginald Samuel. 2006. 3rd-Eye-Publications. Antigua.
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Name: Gregson Davis
Books:
Aimé Césaire. 1997. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.
Polyhymnia: The Rhetoric of Horatian Lyric Discourse. 1991. University of California Press. Berkeley/Los Angeles/ Oxford.
Non-Vicious Circle: Twenty Poems of Aimé Césaire. 1984. Stanford University Press. Stanford, Ca.
The Death of Procris: “Amor” and the Hunt in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. 1983. Edizioni dell’ Ateneo. Rome, Italy.
Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People [w/Margo Davis]. 1973. Scrimshaw Press. San Francisco.
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Name: Kortright Davis
Books (Partial list):
Emancipation Still Comin’: Explorations in Caribbean Emancipatory Theology. 2008. Wipf and Stock Publishers. USA. (first published 1990).
Serving with Power. 1999. Paulist Press. USA.
Can God Save the Church? 1994. Holdale Press. USA.
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Name: R. G. Dingwall
Books:
The Sacking of Antigua.
Falmouth and Great George Fort.
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Name: Brian Dyde
Books:
A History of Antigua, The Unsuspected Isle. 2000. Macmillan.
Antigua and Barbuda: The Heart of the Caribbean. Macmillan.
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Name: Charles Ephraim
Books:
How to become your own Person: An ABC of Effective Reasoning.
The Pathology of Eurocentrism: The Burdens and Responsibilities of Being Black. 2003. Africa World Press. USA.
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Name: Melanie Etherington
Books:
The Antigua and Barbuda Companion. 2002. Macmillan.
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Name: David U. Farquhar
Books:
Missions and Society in the Leeward Islands, 1810 – 1850: An Ecclesiastical and Social Analysis. 1999. Mt. Prospect Press.
***
Name: Moira Fergusen, Anne Hart Gilbert, Elizabeth Hart Thwaites
Book: The Hart Sisters – Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals. 1993. University of Nebraska Press. USA.
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Name: Nikolas Fuller
Book: The History of Salvage in Antigua. 2010. Antigua.
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Name: Mary Gleadall
Book: An Antiguan Trading Company – Geo W. Bennett, Bryson & Co. Ltd. 2012.
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Name: Gilly Gobinet
Books:
The Cool Caribbean Cookery Book. 2007. Antigua.
The Cool Caribbean Cocktail Book
. 2007. Antigua.
The Cool Caribbean Book of Hot Spices, Luscious Fruit and Heady Herbs. (by Dr. Anthony Richards and Gilly Gobinet). 2007. Antigua.
The Cool Caribbean Book of the Top 20 Places in Antigua. 2008. Antigua.
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Name: H. Akia Gore
Books:
Garrote: The Illusion of Social Equality and Political Justice in the United States Virgin Islands. 2009. Wadadli Press.
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Name: Donna Goring
Books:
Dancing in the Dining Room, Antigua West Indies. 2004. Authorhouse. Canada.
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Name: Tim Hector
Works:
Fan the Flame CD collection. 2003.
Excerpt:
“Literacy is not for reading, as the absence of public libraries proves. And without either, the development of the human personality, incorporating into itself the past progressive history of humankind, is stymied.”
[Hector, writing in Fan the Flame]
Note: A book, Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical’s Story (2006. University Press of Mississippi. USA) was written by American, Paul Buhle.
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Name: Paget Henry
Selected Books:
Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life of V. C. Bird. 2009. Hansib. UK.
Caliban’s Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy. 
2000. Routledge. USA.
Peripheral Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Antigua. 1985. Transaction Books. USA.
Excerpt:
“The philosophical contributions of our African heritage are not engaged.”
Note: Dr. Henry is also the editor of the CLR James Journal and the Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books (the latter has been published annually since 2008 and includes reviews of books by various Antiguan and Barbudan writers)
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Name: Basil C. Hill
Books:
The Golden Fleece Found. Trafford Publishing. www.trafford.com
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Name: Albert E. Hughes
Books:
Paradise Commander. CreateSpace. 2012.
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Name: Jose Humphreys
Books:
A Passion for Words 1.1999.
A Passion for Words 2 – Mischievous Joe. 2000.
A Passion for Words 3 – Trails Through My Garden. 2008.
A Guide to Caribbean Herbs. 2008.
Dr. J’s Guide to Home Remedies. 2008.
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Name: Lionel ‘Max’ Hurst
Books:
Vere Cornwall Bird: When Power Failed to Corrupt. 2012.
Luther George: The Barack Obama of Antigua and Barbuda. 2010.
Democracy by Diplomacy. 2007. AuthorHouse.
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Name: The International Women’s Club of Antigua and Barbuda
Books:
From Market to Table Volume II. 2002. Cookbook Publishers, USA.
From Market to Table: A Collection of Favourite Recipes compiled from Members and Friends of the American Women’s Club of Antigua and Barbuda. 1991. Cookbook Publishers, USA.
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Name: Cortroy Jarvis
Books:
Lighting the Fire: A Book About Relationships. 2007.
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Name: Lanaghan, Mrs.
Books:
Antigua and the Antiguans Vols. I & II. 1844 [Reissued 1991, Macmillan].
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Name: Hon. Priest Kailash K. Leonce
Books:
The Herbal Manual.
The Sugar Baby – Naturally Eradicating Diabetes.
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Name: Margaret G. Lockett
Books:
Antigua Then: Scenes from a West Indian Childhood. 2001. Antigua Press. USA.
Excerpt:
“By the time we arrived in Antigua in 1920 the slaves had long been emancipated, but the legacy endured.” [from Antigua Then]
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Name: Myrtle Looby
Looby is originally from Tobago but has lived in Antigua where she has been involved with groups like the Professional Organization for Women in Antigua and Barbuda. She’s also a member of the Professional Women’s Network under whose banner she’s collaborated on several self-help books.
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Name: Monica Matthew
Books:
Journeycakes: Memories with My Antiguan Mama. 2008. Gray’s Farm Publishing.
Excerpt:
“Who goes to a funeral and brings homoe a child? Mama May, born Mary Ambrose.” [from Journeycakes]
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Name: Leon Matthias
Books:
Susanna the Kid Preacher. 2010.
Down Punty Hill. 2008.
Gracefield A Northern Star. 2005.
The Winds of Change. 1999.
Tales from the Hill. 1997. USVI.
Against the Odds. 1996.Friedensberg Moravian Church. USVI.
The Boy from Popeshead. 1995.
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Name: Ernest S. Merrill-Boyd
Books:
Wisdom Sayings for our Troubling Times. 2008. Trafford Publishing. Canada.
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Name: Bernard Moitt
Books:
Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635 – 1848. 2001. Indiana University Press. USA.
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Name: Hyacinth Mottley
Book: Words of Wisdom – Words of Faith. 2012. CreateSpace. USA.
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Name: Marcus Mottley
Book: An Anthology of Radical Thoughts and Empowering Perspectives. 2010. CreateSpace. USA.
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Name:H.Adlai Murdoch
Selected Books:
Post Colonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies [co-editor with Anne Donadey]. 2004. University Press of Florida. USA.
Creole Identity in the French Caribbean Novel. 2001. University Press of Florida.
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Name: K. C. Nash
Books:
Leeward Islands Adventure Guide (3rd edition). 2008. Hunter Publishing. USA.
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Name: Isaac James Newton
Books:
Face Life Squarely. 2003.
Intimate Intimacy. 2003.
Fix it Preacher. 1995.
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Name: Joseph Emanuel Nicholas
The Moravians at Greenbay: A Story of Church and School. Brentwood Christian Press, Columbus, Georgia. 2009.
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Name: Desmond Nicholson
Selected Books:
Heritage Treasures of Antigua and Barbuda. 
2007. Museum of Antigua & Barbuda.
Africans to Antiguans: The Slavery Experience (w/Edward T. Henry). 2003.
Shipwrecks of Antigua and Barbuda. 2002.
Heritage Landmarks of Antigua and Barbuda. 1994.
Antigua and Barbuda Forts. 1994.
Mud and Blood: Artifacts from English Harbour Dredging & the Naval Hospital Site. 1993.
The Archeology of Antigua and Barbuda. 1993.
The Story of English Harbour. 1991. Historical and Archeological Society. Antigua.
Antigua, Barbuda, and Redonda: A Historical Sketch.1991.
Afro-Antiguan Folk Pottery and Emancipation. 1990.
Place Names in Antigua and Barbuda. 1984.
The Story of the Arawaks in Antigua and Barbuda. 1983. Linden Press.
The Dating of West Indian Historical Sites by Ceramic Analysis. 1979.
PreColumbian Seafaring Capabilities in the Lesser Antilles. 1976.
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Name: Koren Norton
Books:
You can do it! Your Personal Guide to Successful Living. 2012. CreateSpace.
On Becoming a Fulfilled Woman: A Handbook for Female Employment. 2009. WingSpan Publishing.
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Name: Vere Langford Oliver
Books:
The History of the Island of Antigua, One of the Leeward Caribees in the West Indies, From the First Settlement in 1635 to Present Time. 1894-96-99. Mitchell and Hughes. London. (subsequent reprinting dates unavailable).
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Name: Timothy Payne
Books:
Village Life. Sun Printing and Publishing. Antigua.
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Name: Chris Pratt
Books:
The Wild Plants of Antigua and Barbuda (w/Kevel Lindsey, Melanie Pearson, and Carolyn Thomas). 2010.
Nelson’s Dockyard National Park Guide to Plants and Historical Sites.
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Name: Mary Prince
Books:
The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself. 1831, London and Edinburgh.
Excerpt:
“We don’t mind hard work, if we had proper treatment, and proper wages like English servants, and proper time given in the week to keep us from breaking the Sabbath. But they won’t give it: they will have work–work–work, night and day, sick or well, till we are quite done up; and we must not speak up nor look amiss, however much we be abused.” [History of Mary Prince]
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Name: Dave Ray
Books:
Customer Service is…: A Cliff Note from the Mind Your Business Series. 2010. Authorhouse. USA.
Mind Your Business: A Reference Start-up and Operational Guide. 2009. Evad Yar Publications. USA.
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Name: Novelle H. Richards
Books:
Tropic Gems. 1974.
Twilight Hour. 1971.
Vines of Freedom.
The Struggle and the Conquest[Twenty Five Years of Social Democracy in Antigua]. 1960. West Indies Federal Labour Party.
Excerpt:
“God of Nations, let thy blessings/fall upon this land of ours…” [from the National Anthem]
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Name: Vivian Richards and Bob Harris
Books:
Sir Vivian: The Definitive Autobiography. 2002. Penguin. UK.
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Name: Dr. George Roberts
Books:
I Just Want to Follow Jesus: An Anthology of Hymns, Caribbean Style 
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Name: Hewlester A. Samuel Sr.
Books:
The Birth of the Village of Liberta, Antigua. 2007. Llumina Press.
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Name: Bandelee MaatRa SetepenRa
Books:
Kujichagulia – Self Determination. 2009. 3rd-Eye-Studios. Antigua.
Modern Antiguan Society: The Self-Propelled Glory of the Slave Master’s Dream. 2005. 3rd-Eye-Studios.Antigua.
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Name: Rosalyn Simon
Books:
God’s Remedies Around Us. 2005. Antigua.
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Name: Emeric Simonkovic and Mitzie Buckley
Books:
Who we Were – Fibrey: The Rope Walk. Siboney Publications. 2005.
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Name: Colleen Simpson
Book: A Lickle Bit A Dis & A Lickle Bit A Dat. 
2004.
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Name: Ineta Skepple
Book:
Our Caribbean Heritage in Context: Stories about Hermitage and Hawkes Bill Estate.
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Name: Keithlyn B. Smith
Books:
Symbol of Courage. 2006. Edan’s Publishers. Canada.
To Shoot Hard Labour 2 The Life and Times of Samuel Smith an Antiguan working man 1877 – 1982. [w/Fernando Smith]. 2003. Edan’s Publishers. Canada.
No Easy Pushover: A History of the Working People of Antigua and Barbuda 1836 – 1994. 1994. Edan’s Publishers. Canada.
To Shoot Hard Labour The Life and Times of Samuel Smith, an Antiguan working man 1877 – 1982. [w/Fernando Smith]. 1986. Edan’s Publishers. Canada.
Excerpt:
“My old ones used to tell me that the Antiguan slave massa seldom would sell man slaves. Things would have to be pretty bad with them to sell a young man slave, or big man for that matter. The man slave was to shoot hard labour for the master.”
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Name: Emily Vanessa Spencer Knight
Books:
Growing up in All Saints Village, Antigua. 
2009. Xlibris Corporation.
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Name: Gwen Tonge
Books:
Cooking Magic. 1992. Antigua.
Cooking Antigua’s Foods.
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Name: Claude Turner
Books:
Multiresolution Analysis for Effective Dynamic Bandwidth Management: Using Wavelets and Traffic Prediction to Meet Quality of Service Needs of Network Applications. 2009. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. USA.
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Name: Regina Vincent Clark
Books:
Yes, God, I’m Listening. 2002. JCV Communications.
From Grandmother with Love. 2004. JCV Communications.
Answering God’s Wake up Call: A 100 Day Journey with the Holy Spirit. 2013. XLIBRIS.
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Name: Cecil E. W. Wade
Books: The UPP Government in Eclipse. 2012.
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Name: Selvyn Walter
Books:
Bank Alley Tales.
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Name: Martha Watkins-Gilkes
Books:
Shipwrecks of the Caribbean. 2002. Macmillan. UK.
Diving Guide to the Eastern Caribbean. 1994. Hunter Pub Inc.
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Name: Floree Williams
Books:
Through the Window. 2010. Create Space. America.
The Souls of My Young Sisters. Various writers including Floree Williams and Nerissa Percival. Edited by Dawn Marie Daniels and Candace Sandy. 2010.
Pink Tea Cups and Blue Dresses. 2007, 2008. Second edition Seaburn Publishing. America.
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Name: Michelle Williams-Angmor
Books: My IT Notes (seven book series). 2011. Antigua.
***
Name: Sharon R. Wilson-Strann
Books:
Poetry for the CSEC English B Examination. 
2008. Macmillan Education. UK.
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Name: Warren Woodberry
Books:
For We are Strangers. 2001.
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Name: Roderick Wynter
Books:
Well Done, Sir Luther. 2009. Lulu Publishing.
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Name: Deng Yan Zhang
Books:
Antiguan Shallow Water Sea Shells. 2011. MdM Publishing, Wellington, FL, USA.
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p.s. I must mention Carnival is all We Know, a collection I (JCH) had the joy of editing in 2007, the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Carnival in Antigua. It’s no longer available having been put out as a special Observer supplement for the limited run of a single newspaper cycle. But working on this project was a personal and professional joy, mostly because I enjoyed immersing myself in the works of my fellow Antiguan writers; people like Brenda Lee Browne, D. Gisele Isaac, Selvyn Walter, S E James, Leonard Tim Hector, Jermilla Kirwan, Arthur Bum Jardine, Edgar O. Lake, Sylvanus Barnes, Shelly Tobitt, Marcus Christopher, Marie Elena John, Aziza Lake, Althea Prince, Tameka Jarvis and others. Tons of our artists as well. If you get a chance I hope you look up these writers online and check out their books; also check out the galleries for a look at the art being produced (such as Heather Doram who created the cover image pictured). What’s in this collection (and, in fact, what’s on this site) is only a sample of Antigua’s artistic output.
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