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Trinidadian Barbara Jenkins is the winner of the 2013 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize

Barbara Jenkins of Trinidad and Tobago is the winner of the inaugural Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize. The announcement was made on Saturday 27 April, during the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest.

The 2014 Hollick Arvon Prize will soon open for entries. Details will be announced on the NGC Bocas Lit Fest website.

In April 2013, the judging panel for the inaugural Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize announced a shortlist of six:

Lisa Allen-Agostini (Trinidad and Tobago)
Angela Barry (Bermuda)
Vashti Bowlah (Trinidad and Tobago)
Barbara Jenkins (Trinidad and Tobago)
Sharon Millar (Trinidad and Tobago)
Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming (Bahamas/Trinidad and Tobago)

The 2013 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize longlist was announced in March:

Lisa Allen-Agostini (Trinidad and Tobago)
Katherine Atkinson (St. Lucia)
Angela Barry (Bermuda)
Vashti Bowlah (Trinidad and Tobago)
Brenda Lee Brown (Antigua and Barbuda)
Lenworth Burke (Jamaica)
Barbara Jenkins (Trinidad and Tobago)
Ilsa Lopez-Valles (Puerto Rico)
Ira Mathur (Trinidad and Tobago)
Sharon Millar (Trinidad and Tobago)
Amanda Choo Quan (Trinidad and Tobago/Jamaica)
Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming (Bahamas/Trinidad and Tobago)
Ann Second (Trinidad and Tobago)
Hazel Simmonds-McDonald (St. Lucia)

The Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize is an annual award which allows an emerging Caribbean writer living and working in the Anglophone Caribbean to devote time to advancing or finishing a literary work, with support from an established writer as mentor. It is sponsored by the Hollick Family Charitable Trust and the literary charitable trust the Arvon Foundation, in association with the non-profit organisation the Bocas Lit Fest.

The Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize will be offered annually, initially for the next three years, and across three literary genres: fiction in 2013, non-fiction in 2014, and poetry in 2015.

The Prize

The Hollick Arvon Prize, with a total value of £10,000 (approx. US$16,000), consists of:

1.    a cash award of £3,000 (approx. US$5,000)
2.    a year’s mentoring by an established writer
3.    travel to the United Kingdom to attend a one-week intensive Arvon creative writing course at one of Arvon’s internationally renowned writing houses
4.    three days in London to network with editors and publishers, hosted by Arvon, in association with the Free Word Centre and the Rogers, Coleridge & White literary agency.

The winner of the 2013 Hollick Arvon Prize will be announced in April 2013 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Eligibility

To be eligible for entry, a writer must:

1.    be of Caribbean birth or citizenship, living and working in the Anglophone Caribbean and writing in English
2.    be over the age of 18 by 30 September, 2012
3.    have had at least one piece of creative writing of no less than 2,000 words published
4.    not yet have published a full-length book in the genre category.

How to enter

Information on entering the 2014 Hollick Arvon Prize will be announced soon.

Judging

The Hollick Arvon Prize will be judged by a panel comprising representatives of the Hollick Family Charitable Trust and the Arvon Foundation, an agent from the Rogers, Coleridge & White literary agency, and up to three representatives of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. The Prize will be administered by the Arvon Foundation and Bocas Lit Fest, in conjunction with the Hollick Family Charitable Trust.

For any queries about eligibility requirements or the submission process, please contact the prize administrators at: [email protected]

Download the Prize guidelines and entry form here.