Specifically, these images (taken from the event’s facebook page) are of Antiguan and Barbudan writers participating in the 2015 Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair. You may recall that I was one of those writers, as blogged at my jhohadli blog.
Antigua-Barbuda related books at the book fair included Alscess Lewis Brown’s Moko Jumbie series of children’s books; Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter, Annie John, Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, and See Now Then; Joanne C. Hillhouse’s Music Youth, Dancing Nude in the Moonlight, and Oh Gad!; Lady of Parham, a David Edgecombe play, inspired by Antiguan lore; and Pepperport which includes a story, Amelia at Devil’s Bridge, by Antigua and Barbuda’s Hillhouse.
This was one of two panels I participated in. That’s me, far right, and that’s Virgin Islands-US author Tiphanie Yanique with the mic in her hand; to her left is Trinidad and Tobago writer Sharon Millar and to her left Jamaican-VI author Gillian Royes.
Making a point.
A strong turn out for U.S.-based, Antiguan and Barbudan author Jamaica Kincaid.
Virgin Islands author and The Caribbean Writer editor, Alscess Lewis-Brown.
Edgar Lake, author of The Devil’s Bridge.
Me, reading from Musical Youth …the last activity of a very long (at once stimulating and tiring) day.
The next installment of the Fair will be in April 2016.
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