Jannine Horsford

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Biography

Jannine Horsford is a fellow of the Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency 2024, the inaugural Moko Magazine Poetry Masterclass 2018, the 2016 Callaloo Writers’ Workshop, and the Cropper Foundation Caribbean Writers’ Workshop 2014. In 2016 she was shortlisted for the Small Axe Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Caribbean Quarterly, The Manchester Review, Cordite Poetry Review, Moko Magazine, Magma, and others. In December 2020, she was awarded an artist’s grant from CATAPULT: A Caribbean Arts Grant, and in 2021 she was longlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers’ Prize. In April 2022, she won the Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowship for Poetry. Her debut poetry chapbook Jurassic Coast was published in 2024 by Peekash Press.

Years Attended

2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2026 Adult's Festival Participant

Jannine Horsford

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Jannine Horsford
2026
Take Two: Fawzia Muradali Kane and Jannine Horsford
Festival Programme Event
Author Readings, Poetry, Take Two Event
Event Date: May 3, 2026 @ 4:30 pm
AV Room
2026
Take Two: Jannine Horsford and Fawzia Muradali Kane
Festival Programme Event
Poetry Event
Event Date: May 3, 2026 @ 4:30 pm
AV Room