Pepperpot gathers the very best of the Caribbean entries to the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, including a mix of established and up-and-coming writers from islands throughout the region. Includes a preface by Olive Senior, winner of the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize form Caribbean Literature.
Anthology · Fiction
Pepperpot
Best New Stories from the Caribbean
published by Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press
Available from Peepal Tree Press in the UK and Akashic Books in North America
About the book
The inaugural publication from Peekash Press, Pepperpot gathers the very best of the Caribbean entries to the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, including a mix of established and up-and-coming writers from islands throughout the region.
“[Pepperpot] leaps headfirst into audacious narrative water, sustaining a diversity in storytelling that’s indicative of the panoply of ways to love, sin, and write about it, in these our unpredictable, conjoined societies.”
— Caribbean Beat
“The diverse textures of the stories … weave a tapestry of the islands, water, sand, ocean breeze, and rum. Vivid settings serve as backdrops for a dazzling display of personalities.”
— Booklist
“If you want a masterclass in how to start your stories with a bang, this is the book for you … This is an exciting and heartening book. It proves—if anyone was in any doubt—that the Caribbean has plenty of homegrown literary talent to draw upon.”
— A Year of Reading the World (Book of the Month for August 2014)
Featuring short fiction by
- Sharon Millar • Trinidad and Tobago
- Dwight Thompson • Jamaica
- Kevin Baldeosingh • Trinidad and Tobago
- Ivory Kelly • Belize
- Barbara Jenkins • Trinidad and Tobago
- Sharon Leach • Jamaica
- Joanne C. Hillhouse • Antigua and Barbuda
- Ezekel Alan • Jamaica
- Heather Barker • Barbados
- Janice Lynn Mather • The Bahamas
- Kimmisha Thomas • Jamaica
- Kevin Jared Hosein • Trinidad and Tobago
- Garfield Ellis • Jamaica
Linked names open the writer's profile in the Bocas Lit Fest A-Z directory.
Meet the editors
Akashic Books
Akashic Books is a Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing urban literary fiction and political nonfiction by authors who are either ignored by the mainstream, or who have no interest in working within the ever-consolidating ranks of the major corporate publishers.
Peepal Tree Press
Peepal Tree Press is home of the best in Caribbean and Black British fiction, poetry, literary criticism, memoirs and historical studies. Peepal Tree is a wholly independent company, founded in 1985, and now publishing around 30-40 books a year. We have published over 250 titles, and are committed to keeping them in print. The list features new writers and established voices. In 2009 we launched the Caribbean Modern Classics Series, which restores to print essential classic books from the 1950s and 60s. We are grateful for financial support from Arts Council England. We are also home to Inscribe, a project which supports writers of African & Asian descent in the Yorkshire region.
