Of course, you already know this if you are a regular visitor to this site and, especially, if you remember to check in periodically with our Opportunities Too page.
Wadadli Pen is our own writing challenge encouraging Antiguans and Barbudans to tell their stories. Wadadli Pen Inc. – formerly the Wadadli Youth Pen Prize – has been working to nurture and showcase the literary arts in Antigua and Barbuda 2004. The submission deadline for this year’s Wadadli Pen is May 31st 2023. Prizes will be a mix of cash and gifts across three age categories (12 and younger, 13 to 17, and 18+/adult) in addition to the main prize for the overall winner. There will also be a prize for teh school with the most submissions. See Wadadli Pen 2023 for submission guidelines.
Keep writing as right after that the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival with a July 1st 2023 submission deadline. It is their fifth annual story contest, open specifically to writers of Caribbean heritage; one winner based in the US and one in the Caribbean region. There is a US$1750 cash prize for each award among other valuable gifts.
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I’m noticing as I catalogue this year’s entries that (so far) we’re getting mostly stories which took me back to the first year of the Wadadli Pen Challenge, 2004 back when each entrant, 16 and younger only, was allowed up to three entries, fiction only. Yeah, Wadadli Youth Pen Prize has been through a lot of changes over the years in its journey to becoming Wadadli Pen Inc. – among them opening up to other genres, other ages, etc. Today, it’s open to all ages resident in Antigua and Barbuda (another change as in the beginning it was Antiguans and Barbudans anywhere) and who knows what other changes may come. What’s remained fix is the Caribbean in the criteria, and I don’t anticipate that changing.
Now I promised some trivia.
Who are the winningest Wadadli Pen finalists (finalists being main and category prize winners as well as runners up and honourable mentions – basically anyone who makes it to the winners’ circle)?
Covering 2004 – 2021, these are the five (six due to a tie) winningest Wadadli Pen participants –
Daryl George who collected seven prizes, including one main prize and two age category wins, over four Wadadli Pen Challenge years: hon. mention, 18-35 – 2012, 2nd placed and winning writing for two different stories, 18-35, and 2nd placed overall – 2013, hon. mention, 18-35 – 2014, winner, 18-35, and overall winner – 2016
Asha Graham who collected five prizes, including two main prize and two age category wins, over two Wadadli Pen Challenge years: third placed for one story and winner for another, 13 to 17, and winner overall – 2013, winner, 13 to 17, and winner overall – 2014
Andre Warner who collected four prizes, including one main prize and one age category win, over three Wadadli Pen Challenge years: 18 to 35 and main prize winner – 2020, honourable mention 2018, 2021
Zion Ebony Williams, Verdanci Benta, and Chatrisse Beazerwho collected four prizes, including one age category win, over three Wadadli Pen Challenge years: ZEB -honourable mention, 12 and younger – 2014, 2nd runner up, 12 and younger – 2016, 1st, 12 and younger, and 3rd overall – 2017 & VB-winner, 12 and younger and third overall – 2004, honourable mention – 2005, 2006 & CB -honourable mention, 12 and younger – 2005, 2006, and winner, 13 to 17, and 3rd overall – 2011
The five (six due to a tie) winningest educational institutions (counting student trips to the winners’ circle) – Antigua State College – 19 trips Antigua Girls High School – 14 trips Christ the King High School – 8 trips St. Anthony’s Secondary & St. John’s Catholic Primary schools – 6 trips each
Four of these schools – AGHS (2013), CKHS (2016), SASS (2021), and St. John’s Catholic Primary (2013) – were also awarded prizes for being the school with the most submissions.
ASC has the most individual main prize winners.
Will any of these champs return this year or will new voices emerge. Get your entries in by May 31st 2023 to have a shot.
For more Wadadli Pen trivia, visit our About Wadadli Pen page; and to enter this year’s Challenge, go here for our submission guidelines.
As with all content on wadadlipen.wordpress.com, except otherwise noted, this is written by Joanne C. Hillhouse (author of The Boy from Willow Bend, Dancing Nude in the Moonlight, Oh Gad!, Musical Youth, With Grace, Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure, The Jungle Outside, and To be a Cheetah – the latter scheduled for July 2023 release and available for pre-order wherever you buy books at this writing). All Rights Reserved. Subscribe to the site to keep up with future updates. Thanks.
As we are in the last week of the Wadadli Pen Challenge 2023 submissions period, YOUR ENTRIES are what we need before May 31st 2023. Challenge yourself, be inspired, write, submit. Before doing so you can even get help polishing your entries at our May 25th workshops.
To make dreams come true this Challenge period and going forward, we need YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS if you are in a position to contribute as a patron to Wadadli Pen Inc. We welcome gifts big and small, in cash and in kind.
To do the work, we need YOUR TIME as a volunteer or intern – the link explains the difference and some of the skillsets we could use. But it’s about time and commitment to community work and specifically Wadadli Pen’s mission to nurture and showcase the literary arts in Antigua and Barbuda.
One of the volunteer or internship roles would be working with our YouTube channel which continues to grow (with several new subscribers in May 2023) in spite of limited content and promotion with this month trending upward in terms of engagement generally. No surprise given that it’s Challenge season. The top trending posts of the period are all related to that.
5 – Writing tip – “let it breathe”
4 – Wadadli Pen on We the People
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Inspired to Write (Wadadli Pen) –
Wadadli Pen Writing Challenge 2023 (Antigua and Barbuda) – How to Enter
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Promoting Wadadli Pen on The Review –
Wadadli Pen Tip – Just Ride
1 – Wadadli Pen re-launch on Voice of the People –
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The ratio of people who tell me they want to publish a book compared to people who tell me that they want to write is probably 4:1 and I get it – the hunger to get your work out into the world but I often feel like they’re putting the cart before the horse. I mean, obviously, if they’re thinking of publishing a book, they’ve written something but that doesn’t mean that that something is ready to be published. Writing is the purpose of writing; publishing a book is another step altogether and a big one. & I worry sometimes that people are skipping the writing en route to publishing a book, in part because it’s easier to self-publish now than when I started out from my surveying of the landscape. But that still doesn’t mean that the work is ready to be out in the marketplace. But it sells, it makes money, people like it, you’re just a hater. I mean that’s one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that I believe in writer development and that’s one of the reasons I started Wadadli Pen – to nurture and showcase the literary arts in Antigua and Barbuda. Before the baby is sent out in to the world, it has to grow – go through stages of development, which in the case of writing, may include revisions and self-editing, feedback from someone outside of yourself or from a later self who has some distance from the work (i.e. put it down and come back to it), writing groups and/or workshops, writing classes or seminars, submitting to journals and contests (test your writing in the markeplace, building a writing profile etc)…or just put the work out; that’s worked for some people. I come from a different school. & the truth is different schools can yield success; there are different paths to the goal.
I do hope that one of your paths, if you’re a writer or aspiring writer in Antigua and Barbuda takes you through the Wadadli Pen challenge.
Some of the interviews we’ve been doing to promote the 2023 challenge have included hacks or tips about writing and about submitting – the Voice of the People appearance, for instance, floats ideas to jump start new writing, while on The Review I talk about what’s meant by “keep it Caribbean” from our submission guidelines:
“the idea is to kind of re-wire our brain to think of ourselves as the center of the story; to think of ourselves as where the story starts. That doesn’t mean that you have to write a stereotypical, cliche Caribbean story. In fact, we would prefer if you didn’t. You can write any kind of genre, you can set it in outer space, you can set it in a parallel universe, you can set it in a future reality but the idea is that imaginatively, psychically center your Caribbean-ness…life as you see it but also as you imagine it.”
Margaret during her We the People appearance reminds that you don’t have to be Antigua-Barbudan born (only resident) to submit; whoever you are you have a particular story to tell.
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Just some of the questions I answered when I stopped by The Review 268.
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Speaking to the guideline that the story be specifically Caribbean, she said, “We do not have to center a creative piece in what we call reality…you could create an alternative reality…(but) the spirit of the piece (is) Caribbean… you can set your story in any dimension that you want…so feel free to make up something outside of what we call Caribbean realities.”
Listen for more tips and guidelines, as well as the history of Wadadli Pen.
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Wadadli Pen team member, Barbara Arrindell, a writer and book retailer, will once again host pre-submission workshops one for children and one for adults, both on Thursday 25th May 2023. Participation is FREE!
No registration necessary, just join the session appropriate to your age – here [ETA: Whatsapp 7257396 to request zoom link no later than May 24th 2023]. Children meet at 6 p.m. and Adults meet at 8 p.m. for one hour of fun, motivation, and tips on writing.
Past workshop participants whether they thought they were writers or not have produced creative and thrilling pieces that have found their way in to the winners’ circle. That could be you. Come through.
Other information re Wadadli Pen 2023 linked here and submission guidelines linked here.
As with all content on wadadlipen.wordpress.com, except otherwise noted, this is written by Joanne C. Hillhouse (author of The Boy from Willow Bend, Dancing Nude in the Moonlight, Oh Gad!, Musical Youth, With Grace, Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure, The Jungle Outside, and To be a Cheetah – the latter scheduled for July 2023 release and available for pre-order wherever you buy books at this writing). All Rights Reserved. Subscribe to the site to keep up with future updates. Thanks.
Do me a favour and get those entries in early because I’m the one clearing the inbox and the bottle neck at the end is a mutha!!! We already have a couple of entries in; keep ’em coming.
Other Wadadli Pen 2023 seasons you may have missed:
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I found it serendipitous, this flag-down, because, as I told her, I had done mailings to the schools about Wadadli Pen and just the day before I realized that hers was one of the promo emails to bounce. Now here she was flagging me down, asking questions about Wadadli Pen 2023, and giving me her new email address so that we I could re-send the information and maybe schedule a visit at her new school – where she is now a principal by the way.
When I met her years ago, she invited me to her school. I forget which is the chicken or the egg in this relationship, the Cushion Club or Wadadli Pen – both would have relationships with her school (readings, story writing workshops, humanities prize, prize for most submissions, student in the finals).
& here she is again reminding me that teachers like her who are always embracing extra curricular opportunities like this for their students are the real Wadadli Pen MVPs.
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A reminder that the process with these Carib Lit Plus Caribbean arts bulletins is to do a front and back half of the month, updating as time allows as new information comes in; so, come back, or, if looking for an earlier installment, use the search window. (in brackets, as much as I can remember, I’ll add a note re how I sourced the information – it is understood that this is the original sourcing and additional research would have been done by me to build the information shared here – credit and link back if you use).
Books and Other Reading Material
Tameisha’s Adventures by Zoanne Evans. “Thirteen-year old Tameisha is tired. Tired of teachers, tired of homework generally tired of school. All she really wants to do (apart from hanging out with her friends) is to style hair. That all changes when a cosmetologist inspires her to make an unprecedented visit to the school library to research Madam C.J. Walker. In the library something goes terribly wrong and Tameisha finds herself still in Barbados, but in 1840 just post-emancipation…Will she find her way back to 21st century Barbados or will she have to stay in the 19th century and accept her awful fate?”
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The paperback edition of Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s When We were Birds was published in 2023.
The Trinidad and Tobago author has already wracked up a bevy of awards and accolades for her debut novel (see below) and is, at this writing, on the short list for the Jhalak Prize. (Source – N/A)
Events
Soul Sations will be offering up good food for mind and body including a talk on wellness by Saran Davis on June 3rd at the G Art Gallery in Piccadilly. Scheduled performers include deejays Sistah Souljahs; singers Amanda Tappin and Rashid Walker; literary artistes Kimolisa Mings, Glen Toussaint, and MJ the Poet; with food by Vegan 100 and drinks by Timmy Time Cocktails. (Source – Kimolisa Mings on Instagram)
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My timeline was awash with pictures from the May 26th – 28th 2023 return of Jamaica’s Calabash literary festival and I’m borrowing some of them. Slideshow below.
Slide to see Joyce Carol Oates, Johnny Temple with Padma Lakshmi, Angelina Jolie with Padma Lakshmi and Sarita Choudhury, steps with book titles, Kwame Dawes, Amina Blackwood-Meeks with Janet and Dale Mahfood, Olive Senior, and Kevin Jared Hosein. (Source – Johnny Temple, Caribbean Writers, and Calabash International Literary Festival on facebook, seasaltanddrum, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tanya Batson-Savage on twitter)
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The Antigua and Barbuda Ministry of Education‘s virtual research symposium series continues May 24th 2023 on facebook live. 6-8 p.m. The previous week’s symposium can be viewed here. (Source – Daily Observer Antigua by Newsco)
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In the UK, on June 24th 2023, Wasafiri will host an afternoon of readings & conversation, ‘Windrush: Writing the Scandal’, live in partnership with the Black Cultural Archives.
Windrush – the name of one of the ships that took them there – has become a catch-all for the post-World War 2 generation of then British West Indian citizens who went to help rebuild England, them and their generations after suffering extreme racism in the process. (Source – Ira Mathur on Twitter)
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The National Archives of Antigua and Barbuda’s inaugural marketplace and cultural exhibition is coming up on June 9th 2023. It is expected to feature local craft, maypole dancing, john bulls, moco jumbies, local foods, including a fungee eating competition, and local drinks. Vendors can call 462-3947 to register. (Source – Daily Observer newspaper by Newsco)
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‘The Historical and Archaeological Society (HAS) held the first event in its ‘Unlock the Museum’ series over the weekend, as persons passionate about Antigua’s history traversed Fort James. The ‘Unlock the Museum’ series was created to share some of the museum’s most intriguing artefacts, stories, and heritage about Antigua and Barbuda. Observer media travelled to the site of the first event in the series, Fort James, as Dr Christopher Waters, an archaeologist and expert in Antiguan fortifications spoke to us about what the ‘Unlock the Museum’ initiative means. “The idea is to bring all of this knowledge, history, material that we have to the wider public, unlocking our archives…so these field trips that we are doing now actually hark back to about 30 years ago, which was common within the Society,” Dr Waters explained.’ from Observer newspaper (Source – Facebook)
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Antiguan and Barbudan poet Dotsie Isaac debuted Senses, a spoken word event, last year to considerable acclaim and here she comes again. The event is scheduled for June 17th and benefits the local Sickle Cell foundation. ICYMI, I interviewed her for CREATIVE SPACE in 2022. (Source – Dotsie Isaac on Instagram)
As we’ve updated you, the 2023 season of the Wadadli Pen Challenge has launched. We can confirm that contributions from Barbara Arrindell, Wadadli Pen team member, and Daryl George, past Wadadli Pen winner, have enabled us to take the step of opening an account as a non-profit. They have been added to our 2023 patrons list, as well as individuals (Joy Lawrence), companies (KN Consulting, the Best of Books bookstore, Moondancer Books), and community groups (Cushion Club) who have committed to contributing to the 2023 challenge season, with prizes and other things (e.g. promotion). We continue to seek patronage. Contact us at wadadlipen@gmail.com if you want to contribute or volunteer/intern with us. As usual, we shout out all the media who have helped push our agenda and especially so this year – Observer Media Group, WTP 93.5 FM (which hasn’t happened yet but which we expect to this week), and apart from the Wadadli Pen blog and vlog, both of which you should be subscribed to by the way, we have a year-round presence on Antiguanice.com
I’m happy to report that entries have started coming in and we look forward to y’all overwhelming us with submissions. It’s the kind of problem we like to have. (Source – in house)
Other Opportunities
Remember to check Opportunities and Opportunities Too to make sure you never miss out on another …opportunity. One of those opportunities, specific to Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora artists, is the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival short story competition, which, in part due to limited opportunities, has quickly become quite coveted. It is made more appealing by the high standards it brings to table breaking and/or elevating the vanguard of new Caribbean writing. If you feel your pen is nice, this is a challenge you want to take. They have added to the challenge; ruminate on the number 5/five. “Have you ever thought about what you would do if you only had 5 months to live? What if that time was whittled to 5 weeks or even 5 days? What would you do with those remaining moments? How would you spend your last 5 dollars in the world, knowing very well that there’d be nothing else? Thinking back, is it possible to recall the most impressionable 5 moments of your life? The number 5 is undoubtedly an important increment. From universally representing the length of the daily grind between the (often) dreaded modern work week of Monday to Friday, those 5 days which have come to define the life cycles, circadian, arcadian and social rhythms of modern human civilisation; to the perfectly appointed number of digits on each hand, 5 is a relatable and easily identifiable multiple. In the Caribbean, 5 is nature in action. Countless childhood memories have been crystallised from the tart and sweet nectar of ripe 5-finger fruit – memories headlined by mothers who have themselves wiped clean the sticky chins and fingers of their children – those lifted hands almost an act of reverential offering. Which Caribbean person can deny that carambola is the star(fruit) of the wet season? The regalia of a formed hibiscus flower has five sepals, the fragrant frangipani, 5 petals. Indeed, the number 5, as a pattern and as a unit is stamped in the conscious and unconscious memory, flora, fauna and sensory landscape of all Caribbean people. Permit us to add one more object to the magical numeric sequence of our complex and variegated Caribbean lives. This year, the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) observes 5 years of celebrating Caribbean writers in the North American diaspora and across the yes – you got it, 5 boroughs of New York. It’s been 5 wonderful years of falling in love anew with Caribbean stories.” The submission deadline is July 1st 2023.
The Writers Guild of America is on strike. So? What does that have to do with us? I have been paying attention to this because as both a creative and freelance writer I have had to learn and adapt industry standards to my own experience and efforts to build a career as a writer in the Caribbean as I work and as I advocate. For example, ownership and rights as relates to created content, rates, and terms of use generally have always been priority issues for me and have informed the resources I try to share on this type (passing on some of the things I have had to learn the hard way). Wadadli Pen aside, I have not had the time to give to this kind of work formally (plus I’m not really built for that) but the outcome of this could inform standards for writers anywhere going forward – e.g. re the use of AI (not just for writers, voice, image, art created are all at stake) – and signal (or not) the value of the work we do as writers. Inasmuch as I understand it, and from this great distance here, I support writers standing up for the right to own and profit from the work we do. That’s broadstrokes. This is an interesting breakdown of the issues at hand.
Per The Blacklist, “What’s at stake is nothing less than the future of writing as a viable career.” They made a strong case against scabbing or breaking the picket line by picking up the work WGA members have put down on projects produced by Guild signatory companies. As someone who has been all-in on my writing career (no net) since 2002/3, I know how important it is for the people you work with (and sometimes for the other creatives you work alongside) to understand that we must insist on the value of what we do (the right to a fair fee, an understanding of rights and ownership of our Intellectual Property etc.), so that we can eat and, hopefully, thrive. (Source – The Blacklist email)
Accolades
Young Barbudan Sophia Charles won the BarbudanGo World Oceans Day writing competition in 2022 and her winning story “Pip the Parrotfish” is being turned in to a book which will be released in June 2023. As a pre-launch activity, BarbudanGo, a non-profit on Antigua’s sister island, held an illustration competition, the winner of which is Kyrolos Greaux. He won an art book and art supplies. As for Pip the Parrotfish, BarbudanGo is in the process of planning and organizing a series of reading drives. (Source – the Daily Observer by Newsco)
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Fresh off of her win at Bocas, Trinidad and Tobago’s Ayanna Lloyd Banwo has made the short list of the Jhalak Prize.
The prize is awarded to writers of colour in the UK. Ayanna lives in the UK and her book When We Were Birds is one of six in the running, culled from a long list of 12. The three-member judging panel includes award winning UK based TnT poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo. The winner will be announced on May 25th 2023. (Source – Twitter)
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Regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been announced. Jamaican Kwame McPherson is the Caribbean pick.
ETA: About the regional winner for the Caribbean via Ruth Killick Publicity, “Caribbean – Kwame McPherson (Jamaica) A past student of London Metropolitan University and University of Westminster, Kwame McPherson is a 2007 Poetic Soul winner and was the first Jamaican Flash Fiction Bursary Awardee for The Bridport Prize: International Creative Writing Competition in 2020. A prolific writer, Kwame is a recent and successful contributor to Flame Tree Publishing’s (UK) diverse-writing anthologies and a contributor to ‘The Heart of a Black Man’ anthology to be published in Los Angeles, which tells personal inspiring, uplifting and empowering stories from influential and powerful Black men.”
McPherson is joined by Hana Gammon (South Africa, Africa); Agnes Chew (Singapore, Asia); Rue Baldry (United Kingdom, Canada and Europe); and Himali McInnes (New Zealand, Pacific). The overall winner will be announced on June 27th 2023. (Source – Commonwealth Foundation Creatives for Facebook)
We previously related that several Caribbean diaspora writers were on the Women Prize Discoveries longlist and now we can report that some of them have made the shortlist: Specifically Georgina Charles, described as a “grandchild of the Windrush generation”, Paige Cowan-Hall, “the child of second generation Jamaican immigrants”, and Riana Duce, whose paternal grandparents are from St. Kitts and Nevis “where her grandfather still lives”. Credit to her Caribbean roots, Duce said, in response to a question asked of the short listed writers, “My favourite author is Andrea Levy. Small Island taught me more about the Windrush generation – and with it my own family history – than school ever did. There isn’t a book Levy wrote that I don’t adore. Her voice, her wit, the intimacy and scope of her work, and her phenomenal characters will live with me forever. ” Per the Women Prize site, “The Discoveries programme, run by the Women’s Prize Trust in partnership with Curtis Brown literary agency, the Curtis Brown Creative writing school and Audible, aims to find and support aspiring female writing talent from across the UK and Ireland and culminates in the awarding of the Discoveries Prize.” (Source – Women’s Prize for fiction email)
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