David Dabydeen
David Dabydeen is a Guyanese critic, writer, novelist and academic. His accolades include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Quiller-Couch Prize and the Guyana Prize for Literature. In 2000 Dabydeen was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the second West Indian writer and the only Guyanese writer to be awarded the title.
Vanda Radzik
Guyanese Vanda Radzik is a longtime social activist and cultural organiser, and co-editor of the literary journal Kyk-over-al.
Gordon Rohlehr
Gordon Rohlehr, Guyana-born literary scholar long based in Trinidad, is Emeritus Professor at UWI, St. Augustine. His books include Calypso and Society in Pre-Independence Trinidad (1990), My Strangled City and Other Essays (1992), The Shape of That Hurt and Other Essays (1992), and A Scuffling of Islands: Essays on Calypso (2004), Perfected Fables Now: A […]
Vivek Narayanan
Vivek Narayanan was born in India and raised in Zambia. His poetry collections include Universal Beach (Harbour Line Press, 2006/In Girum Books, 2011) and Life and Times of Mr S (HarperCollins India, 2012). His honours include a fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University. He was a 2015–16 Cullman Fellow at the New York Public […]
Pauline Melville
Master of Chaos (Sandstone Press, 2021) is the latest short story collection from this acclaimed Guyanese/British writer whose work has won numerous literary awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread Prize, and the Guyana Prize for Literature. Her work has been translated into ten languages.
Imam Baksh
Imam Baksh is a writer from Guyana. His manuscript Children of the Spider won first place in the 2015 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, published in 2016 by Blue Banyan Books. His manuscript The Dark of the Sea is a 2018 CODE Burt Award finalist.
Fred D’Aguiar
 British-Guyanese author of twelve books, including novels, poems and plays. Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020 is his latest book, his first non-fiction work and was named Book of the Year in 2021 by the New Statesman and The Times Literary Supplement (TLS). His acclaimed first novel The Longest Memory (1994) won the Whitbread […]