To see the winners through the years, you can click on the individual year in the drop down menu on the main page, and, of course, you can also use our search feature. But I thought it might be convenient (and appropriate) to have an easy and convenient listing of all the winners from a single space in the section on Antigua and Barbuda Writings as well. So, here goes.
Verdanci Benta (Shirley’s New Roommate)
Gemma George (Stray Dog Prepares for the Storm)
Siena K. Margrie Hunt (A Nuclear Family Explosion)
Liscia Lawrence (The Day I saw Evil)
Lia Nicholson (Tekin’ Ahn Dey!)
Damani Tabor (The Irate Beggar)
Rilys Adams (Fictional Reality)
Chatrisse Beazer (A Scary Night)
Verdanci Benta (Boysie’s Fixed Account)
Kennella Charles (Awaken to the Night)
Debesha S. A. Grant (Blue Mountain Hike)
Liscia Lawrence (Misinterpreted)
Sarah Ann Li (Lucky Dollar)
Sandrena Martin (The Torturer)
Rilys Adams (Unheard)
Chatrisse Beazer (The Rescue)
Verdanci Benta (The Village Obeah Woman)
Ayoka [Angelica] O’Donoghue (Road Trip to Paradise)
Rosalie Amelia Richards (The Creation)
Kemal Osmel Nicholson (Ma Belle)
Blair A. Rose (The Day I became a Man)
One of the top art entries from 2010.
Terrikia Benjamin (Happy to be Black)
Shakeema Edwards (Skin Deep)
Hilesha S. Humphreys (Black and Beautiful)
The art winners were Déjà Phillip, best 12 and under; Ashley Clendenen, best 13 to 17; Akeem Barry, best 18 to 35; and Shem Alexander, best overall.
Art from the 2011 Challenge in which the writers had to write children’s stories and the artists had to create illustrations for the top stories. This is one of two by that year’s adult art winner Hudle Jennings, an illustration for the story Sands and Butterflies.
Chatrisse Beazer (The Legend of Banana Boy)
SA Dixon (Cocos Nucifera)
Shakeema Edwards (The Curse of the Kumina)
Orique Gordon (The Lost Coin)
Zuri Holder (The Scary Night)
Ardis Lavelle (Pre School Days)
Keillia Mentor (Mongoose in a Hole)
Devra Thomas (Sands and Butterflies)
Latisha Walker-Jacobs (Market Day)
Vega Armstrong (The Legend of the Sea Lords)
Naleka Beckford (Origin)
Akeile Benjamin (The Adventures of Mr. Coconut)
Ariel Dunnah (Angela’s Baby and Every Rose has its Thorn)
Darryl George (Snowcone Melancholia)
Aarati Jagdeo (The Yard and Thirty-Six Hundred)
Jordee Josiah (Let’s Dance)
Karenna Nicholson (The Caribbean Flavour)
Rosalie A. Richards (Smitten)
Tiffany Smith (The Colour Red and The Untitled)
The challenge in 2013 was to create anansi characters – it was in fact an audition for a possible assignment for a forthcoming book. Garvin Benjamin had the top art entries. This is his version of Ms. Anansi.
Chammaiah Ambrose (How Tigers got Stripes)
Vega Armstrong (Hide and Seek)
Daryl George (Julie Drops and Ceramic Blues)
Asha Graham (Revelations Tonight and Remembrance)
Michaela Harris (Secret of de Mango Tree)
Zuri Holder (The Big Event)
Jamila Salankey (Her Blackest Sin)
Cover design by Alvin Livingstone. Winner of the 2014 cover design Wadadli Pen art Challenge.
Carmen Ambrose (Welcome Back, Champ)
Chammaiah Ambrose (The Great Cycle)
Vega Armstrong (Forbidden)
Terry Benjamin Jr. (The Farm Thief)
Letisha Carrington Faracho (Last Cry)
Damian De Silva (Escape to Paradise)
Ariel Dunnah (La Diablesse and A Grain of Salt)
Zahra Emanuel (The Day I saved a Friend)
Daryl George (A Guilty Fragrance)
Christopher Gittens (The Knock on My Door)
Asha Graham (Lajabless)
Daniel Ince (One Scary Night)
Margaret Irish (The Skipping Rope)
Liscia Lawrence (Misguided Illusion)
Arize Lee (The Cold Truth)
Zoe Lewis (The Day I Almost Died)
Mjolnir Messiah (Searching for a Treasure)
Kaylee Meyer (This is Paradise)
Kelvin Juwon Miller (Delinquent Development)
Alexandra Nathaniel Spence (Why did I get punished?)
Angelica O’Donoghue (Loving the Skin I’m In)
Kohylah Piper (Hallowed Ground)
Paula Russell-Peters (The Big Fight and Two can play at That Game)
Zion Ebony Williams (The Night I went to Cricket)
Ondrej Austin-McDonald (untitled)
Judah Christian (Judah and His Friends save the Day)
Margaret Irish (Justice)
Olsfred James (Get Set, Go… )
Melicia McCalmon (The First Time I went to St. John’s)
Avriel Walters (Teenagers)
Chammaiah Ambrose (Guilty)
Denejah Browne (Lost and Found!)
Alyssa Charles (Faded Glory)
Judah Christian (My Worst Day Ever)
Rolanda Cuffy (The Caribbean)
Zahra Emanuel (My So-called Father)
Daryl George (Tropical Moonlight Sonata)
Canice James (Heroic Night)
Kya Matthew (Antigua and Barbuda – My Paradise)
Jemelia Pratt (Les Trajó Aquí)
Morgan Leah Simon (Antigua Experience)
Laila Tahir (Caribbean Experiences)
Avriel Walters (My Cousin)
Zion Ebony Williams (A Dinner to Remember)
Emma Belizaire (Cricket is My Life)
Ashley Francis (Our Caribbean)
Fayola Jardine (Shakiyah and the Mango Hater)
Andrecia Lewis (Strange)
Lucia Murray (Mr. Duppy)
Ava C. Ralph (Non Fiction?)
Kaeiron Saunders (Not Another Island Story; As Told by Auntie Gah)
Shadiael Simmons (Brave 11-Year-old Saved Two Months Baby)
Zion Ebony Williams (Those who don’t hear, will feel)
Devon Wuilliez (The Great Big Dumz)
Francis Yankey (And She Sang Fire)
Kyle Christian (Creak)
Andrecia Lewis (Sunday School)
Chloe Martin (A Song to Sing)
Rosie Pickering (Damarae)
Ava Ralph (Fummestory Herstory History)
Andre Warner (The Oldest Native)
2019
There was no Wadadli Pen Challenge in 2019 but there was a Wadadli Pen Readers Choice Book of the Year won by F.A.K.E. by Vivian Luke – read about that initiative here.
Aria-Rose Browne (Fabled Truth)
Sethson Burton (Oh, Beach that I once Loved)
Judah Christian (The John Bull Effect)
Cheyanne Darroux (Tom, the Ninja Crab)
D’Chaiya Emmanuel (Two Worlds Collide)
Sienna Harney-Barnes (A New World)
William Henderson (The Beast of Barbados)
Zaniah Pigott (A Mermaid)
Lehana Simon (Lead Me Lord)
Ciara Thomas (My Favourite Dish)
Andre J. P. Warner (A Bright Future for Tomorrow)
Eunike Caesar (The Blackboard)
Jason Gilead (The Great Old Woodslave)
Gazelle Goodwin (Beautiful Disaster)
Sheniqua Greaves (The Juxtaposed Reprieve)
Ashley-Whitney Joshua (Hiraeth)
Aunjelique Liddie (The Beach)
Kevin Liddie (Mildred, You No Easy)
Razonique Looby (Vixen)
Andre Warner (The Brave One)
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Updated with the 2017 winning pieces; and an opportunity to revisit past favourites.