The Wadadli Youth Pen Prize is, as of 2021, a registered non-profit which nurtures and showcases the literary arts in Antigua and Barbuda. Its flagship project, since its launch in 2004, has been the Wadadli Pen Challenge. Read about it here and read/view all winning entries here. Daryl George, 2012 – 2014 finalist and 2016 winner said, “Writing for the Wadadli Pen Challenge this year wasn’t easy: and that is precisely why it’s so beneficial, year in and year out.” Liscia Lawrence, 2004 – 2005 and 2014 finalist wrote, “Wadadli Pen opened the door to my creativity, it inspired me to let go of my fears and speak out, and most of all it helped me to channel all the energy I had by simply putting pen to paper.”
The second largest Wadadli Pen project is this website which is, according to one international blogger, “a huge archive of anything literary that is Antiguan and Barbudan …the sheer volume of information here is highly useful and the effort is commendable.” As of 2020, Wadadli Pen also has its own YouTube channel. Our banner is updated quarterly with covers of books by Antiguans and Barbudans. See our database for more.
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Copyright of the winning Wadadli Pen stories and/or art work featured on this site belongs to the creators of the individual works. The Wadadli Pen logo was created by Ken Shipley. Other blog content, except otherwise noted, is created and/or maintained by Wadadli Pen founder and coordinator, Antiguan and Barbudan author Joanne C. Hillhouse. Reblog or share (non-commercially) with credit but site content should not be distributed, transmitted, used for commercial purposes, altered, and/or built upon without credit to and the consent of the copyright holders.
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