Difficult parents and lost children, unfaithful spouses and spectral lovers, mysterious ancestors and fierce bloodlines — the stories, poems, and memoirs in this new anthology tackle everything that’s most complicated and thrilling about family and history in the Caribbean. Collecting new writing by finalists for the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize, a groundbreaking award administered by the Bocas Lit Fest, Thicker Than Water shows us how a new generation of Caribbean authors address perennial questions of love, betrayal, and memory in small places where personal and collective histories are often troublingly intertwined.
Anthology · Literature
Thicker Than Water
New writing from the Caribbean
edited by Funso Aiyejina
$120.00 TTD
Available from Paper Based Bookshop, Port of Spain.
About the book
- Featuring fiction, memoir, and poems from Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize finalists.
- Features the best of a new generation of Caribbean writers from seven countries.
- Celebrates the unique legacy of the only award for emerging Caribbean authors with truly regional scope, and includes new work by Hollick Arvon Prizewinners Barbara Jenkins (fiction, 2013), Diana McCaulay (creative non-fiction, 2014), and Danielle Boodoo- Fortuné (poetry, 2015).
- Contributors include winners and shortlistees of other awards such as the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection, CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, and the Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award.
- Covers timely themes of family dynamics, ancestry, and social change.
- Edited by Funso Aiyejina.
Featuring new writing by
- Lisa Allen-Agostini • Trinidad and Tobago
- Nicolette Bethel • The Bahamas
- Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné • Trinidad and Tobago
- Vashti Bowlah • Trinidad and Tobago
- Richard Georges • British Virgin Islands
- Zahra Gordon • Trinidad and Tobago
- Barbara Jenkins • Trinidad and Tobago
- Lelawatee Manoo-Rahming • Trinidad and Tobago/The Bahamas
- Ira Mathur • Trinidad and Tobago
- Diana McCaulay • Jamaica
- Sharon Millar • Trinidad and Tobago
- Monica Minott • Jamaica
- Philip Nanton • St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Xavier Navarro Aquino • Puerto Rico
- Shivanee Ramlochan • Trinidad and Tobago
- Judy Raymond • Trinidad and Tobago
- Hazel Simmons-McDonald • St Lucia
- Lynn Sweeting • The Bahamas
- Peta-Gaye V. Williams • Jamaica
Linked names open the writer's profile in the Bocas Lit Fest A-Z directory.
Meet the author
Funso Aiyejina
Funso Aiyejina is a poet, short story writer, and playwright, born in Nigeria and living in Trinidad and Tobago. He is Professor Emeritus and former Dean of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine. His collection of short fiction, The Legend of the Rockhills and Other Stories, won the 2000 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book (Africa). He is a widely published critic on African and West African literature and culture, and deputy director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival.
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