Fedon Honore
Errol Sitahal
Errol Sitahal is a Trinidadian actor who has acted in television and Hollywood films, including A Little Princess (1995). Since returning to Trinidad from Canada, he has acted in local productions, which include playing the role of Sookdeo in Victor Edwards’s Iere Theatre production of Samuel Selvon’s A Brighter Sun.
Donna Hemans
Jamaican-born Donna Hemans is the author of the novel River Woman, winner of the 2003–4 Towson University Prize for Literature. Tea by the Sea, for which she won the Lignum Vitae Una Marson Award for Adult Literature, is her second novel. Her short fiction has appeared in the Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, and […]
Denise Mina
Denise Mina is a Scottish crime writer, playwright, and comic book writer. Her first novel, Garnethill, won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasy Dagger Award for best first crime novel. In 2001 her novel The Field of Blood was filmed and broadcast by the BBC.
Deborah John
Deborah John was a journalist for over thirty years. She also writes poetry and fiction, and is interested in the history and evolution of Trinidad and Tobago’s carnival and calypso.
David Sammy
David Sammy began a theatre career at Naparima College, winning acting awards at the Secondary Schools Drama Festival; also NDATT awards in 1983, 1985. Has participated in Best Village and SanFest. He is South’s reigning King of Jouvert 2013, 2014, and a member of the San Fernando Theatre Workshop since 1978. His credits include radio […]
Cyril Dabydeen
Cyril Dabydeen, born in Guyana, teaches Creative Writing at the University of Ottawa, and is a former Poet Laureate of Ottawa (1984-87). He has been a finalist four times for Canada’s Archibald Lampman Poetry Prize, as well as for the Guyana Prize, which he won for best book of fiction in 2007 (for Drums of […]
Colin Grant
Colin Grant, born in the UK of Jamaican parents, is a historian and producer for BBC Radio. He is the author of Bageye at the Wheel and the acclaimed biography of Marcus Garvey, Negro with a Hat.
Colleen Smith Dennis
Colleen Smith Dennis is a Jamaican writer. She is the author of three books including Inner City Girl, third place winner of the 2014 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature.
Chris Dolan
Chris Dolan is an award-winning author, playwright and literary critic from Glasgow, Scotland.
Caron Asgarali
Caron Asgarali is a Chemistry teacher from Vistabella. She was the victim of a violent crime in January 2013. She shares her story of being shot, recuperation and spiritual renewal in her memoir From Lion to Lamb as a means of imbuing hope in others.
Boyd Tonkin
Boyd Tonkin studied literature at Cambridge University before becoming an award-winning journalist. Formerly the Literary Editor of The Independent, he is now the newspaper’s Senior Writer. He has reported on cultural and social issues from more than 30 countries. In addition to judging the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize annually since 2001, he has judged many […]
Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me. His most recent book, The Executor, is a novel with poems. He is Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, London.
Beverley-Ann Scott
Beverley-Ann Scott is a medical doctor and author of the novels The Stolen Cascadura (2007), Is America She Gone? (2013) and The Lotus Blooms At Night (2020). She migrated from Trinidad and Tobago to the United States in 2014. Her novels deal with issues such as HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, class and gender inequality, homosexuality, crime, […]
Basil Ince
Basil Ince, a former Olympic athlete for Trinidad and Tobago, is the author of Olympian: 75 Years of Trinidad and Tobago in Olympic Sport, longlisted for the 2012 OCM Bocas Prize.
Antonia MacDonald-Smythe
Antonia MacDonald-Smythe was born and grew up in St. Lucia. She now lives in Grenada, where she is a professor in the department of Liberal Studies, Senior Associate Dean in the School of Arts and Sciences, and Assistant Dean in the Graduate Studies Program at St. George’s University. She was a non-fiction judge for the […]
Andrea Stuart
Andrea Stuart, born in Barbados, has published three books, most recently Sugar in the Blood. Her biography of Josephine Bonaparte, entitled The Rose of Martinique, won the Enid McLeod Literary Prize in 2004.
Allan Guthrie
Allan Guthrie is a Scottish literary agent, editor, and crime writer. His first novel Two-Way Split, was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger Award, and won the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2007.
A-dZiko Simba Gegele
A-dZiko Gegele is a poet, playwright and novelist of Jamaican and Nigerian parentage. She completed a residency at the prestigious Yaddo Artists’ Retreat and participated in the Cropper Residency and Calabash Writers Workshops. Her work has been published in numerous international anthologies, and her first novel All Over Again was the winner of the 2014 […]
Cindy Allman
Cindy Allman is a Jamaican living and working in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a book blogger, book reviewer, book club host, content creator, and a very active member of the Bookstagram community. She freelances full time as a digital marketer and spends half the year being a digital nomad. Cindy is also the creator […]
Saajid Hosein
Saajid Hosein is a Trinidadian BookTuber and Bookstagrammer. He runs the YouTube channel “Books are my Social Life” and the Instagram Page @musaho_books. Saajid’s main aim is to read diversely, with a special focus on Caribbean and Muslim literature, and recommend the stories he enjoys to his audiences.
Ann-Margaret Lim
Ann-Margaret Lim has two published books of poems, The Festival of Wild Orchid and Kingston Buttercup, and was featured in Ebony Magazine after her 2014 debut at the Calabash Lit Fest. She has represented Jamaica in poetry festivals in Latin America, and her work is published in UK, Caribbean and US anthologies.
Zalika Reid-Benta
Zalika Reid-Benta is a Canadian writer. Her debut novel River Mumma received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist Magazine. It was the October 2023 pick for the CityLine book club and has been listed as one of the best fiction books of 2023 on numerous platforms, including CBC Books, Indigo Books, Kobo Books and […]
Maria Grau Perejoan
Maria Grau Perejoan holds a doctoral degree in Cultural Studies with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature and Literary Translation from the University of Barcelona, and an MPhil in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. She was visiting lecturer at the UWI, St Augustine Campus for three academic years, she […]
P.J. Patterson
P.J. Patterson, ON, OCC, PC, QC, was Jamaica’s sixth and longest-serving prime minister from 1992 to 2006. In addition to his lifelong political service, he has had an equally distinguished legal career and is the recipient of numerous academic and international honours. On his retirement from politics, he founded HeisConsults, an international consulting firm, and […]
Malka Older
Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus, Book Riot, and the Washington Post. The Centenal Cycle trilogy, which also includes Null States (2017) and State Tectonics (2018), is a finalist for the Hugo Best Series Award of […]
Isoke Efia Edwards
Isoke Efia Edwards is a graduate of Howard University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Acting. Isoke spent many years between D.C. and NYC working every aspect of the stage and working with the likes of Al Freeman, Reggie Ray and Mike Malone. Locally, she jumped into television production, winning awards for her TV […]
Nailah Folami Imoja
Nailah Folami Imoja (née Charmaine Gill), winner of Barbados’s Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition 2024 and Bermuda’s Writer in Residence 2025, is a Barbadian/British novelist, poet, spoken word artist, and educator. A teacher by day, she relies on more than three decades of teaching experience (from kindergarten teacher to university tutor) and a keen sense […]
Mandisa Granderson
Mandisa Granderson began singing and dancing as early as 3 years old and found her love for acting at age 10. She studied with Lilliput Theatre and continued acting while studying at Colgate University. Upon returning home she immersed herself in the local art scene and has performed with 3Canal, Griot Productions and First Instinct […]
Katherine Agyemaa Agard
Katherine Agyemaa Agard is a Trinidadian writer currently based in San Francisco. Her first book of colour is an auto-ethnography of the desire to, and subsequent refusal of, telling the story of oneself in binary terms to North American audiences. It begins with the account of a film never made, and continues with an exegesis of paintings […]