Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

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Biography

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw is a Professor of French literature and Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies. She has published scholarly articles and essays on Francophone Caribbean Literature and had co-edited several works including Border Crossings: A Trilingual Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers; Methods in Caribbean Research: Literature, Discourse, Culture; Echoes of the Haitian Revolution (1804-2004); and Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution and its Cultural Aftershocks. She has also published creative works. Her short stories have been widely translated and anthologized most recently in New Daughters of Africa. Four Taxis Facing North her first collection of short stories was considered one of the best books of the year by the Caribbean Review of Books. Mrs B, a novel, was short listed for “Best Book of Fiction” in the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2014. Stick No Bills is her latest book, a collection of short stories published by Peepal Tree Press in 2020.

Years Attended

2013, 2013 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2014, 2014 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2014 South Festival Participant, 2015, 2015 Bocas Abroad Participant, 2016, 2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2017, 2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2020, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020 Workshop Facilitator, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant

Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
2024
One on One with Edwidge Danticat
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
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Old Fire Station
2020
Home and away: new short fiction by Zalika Reid-Benta and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
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Online
2020
An Open House: Readings, Performances and More!
The Writers Centre Event
Social Event
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The Writers Centre
2019
A New Daughters of Africa showcase
Carifesta Event
Readings Event
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Grand Market
2019
The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories
Festival Programme Event
Book Launch Event
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Old Fire Station
2017
Noir by Night: celebrating the launch of Trinidad Noir: The Classics
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Book Launch Event
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Big Black Box
2016
Wide Sargasso Sea at 50
Festival Programme, In Tribute Event
Discussion Event
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AV Room
2015
Not That Caribbean: New Writing from the Antilles
Bocas Abroad, Miami Book Fair Event
Discussion Event
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Miami Book Fair
2014
A reading by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, chaired by Nicholas Laughlin
Bocas South Event
Readings Event
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SAPA
2014
Sunday Launch
Festival Programme, Sunday Launch Event
Book Launch Event
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Old Fire Station
2013
Robert Antoni and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
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AV Room