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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Carolyn Pogue event for the launch of her writer’s residency
For those of you in Calgary this week, here is a posting for an event that commences Carolyn Pogue’s residency at the Alexandra Writers Centre. Carolyn wrote the novel Gwen, and is an inspiring writer, speaker, educator, and activist. More … Continue reading
Black History Month author: Lillian Allen
Mervyn Morris, professor emeritus of Creative Writing & West Indian Literature at the University of the West Indies, Mona, describes dub poetry as a “poetry that makes a priority of foreground, that makes sure you’re aware of the particular musical … Continue reading
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Black History Month author: Itah Sadu
Itah Sadu wrote two children’s stories for Women’s Press: A Touch of the Zebras and Name Calling. Using her gift for orality, Sadu writes the lines of the story right off the page and into the ears of kids all … Continue reading
Black History Month author: Rosamund Elwin
One of the most prolific authors for Women’s Press in the eighties and nineties was Rosamund Elwin. Whether coauthoring Asha’s Mums, a landmark children’s story that demystifies lesbian parenting for young Asha’s teacher and classmates, or gathering the honest and … Continue reading
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Black History Month author: Bernadette Gabay Dyer
My mother, Margaret Moneague, was murdered in Jamaica in 1919. History will not speak of her or record how valiantly she, who was little more than a child, struggled to survive against overwhelming poverty. History will be preoccupied with the … Continue reading
Black History Month author: Gail Nyoka
After winning the 2000 Chalmers Award in the category of theatre for young people for her stage play Mella Mella, Gail Nyoka (pictured below) adapted her Mella character into a book for young adults, called Mella and the N’anga: An … Continue reading
Black History Month author: Mairuth Sarsfield
Mairuth Sarsfield is an accomplished broadcaster, civil servant, and author. She has won awards for theme coordination at World’s Fair pavilions for Canada, and has been awarded with the Chevalier a L’Ordre National du Quebec in 1986, as well as … Continue reading
Black History Month author: Yvonne Bobb-Smith
Dr. Yvonne Bobb-Smith is an Adjunct Lecturer at the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago, teaching a Course, Caribbean Anthropology, and as an e-Tutor, with Open Campus, University of the West Indies, teaching Introduction to … Continue reading
Black History Month author: Rayda Jacobs
Rayda Jacobs wrote The Middle Children in 1994 with Second Story Press. The book is a series of linked short stories that touch on Ms Jacobs’ own upbringing as a ‘middle child’, those South Africans who were discriminated against during … Continue reading
Black History Month authors: Yannick Marshall
Yannick Marshall’s Empress is poetry that venerates various Black female heroines throughout history imagined and realized in women today. Marshall’s style, lyricism, and self-aware historical vernacular are truly wonderful. Read more about Empress here. Marshall’s first book published with Kellom … Continue reading
