Description
Fiction and poetry by Caribbean writers on gender-based violence.
Contributors include winners and shortlistees of awards including the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Commonwealth Short Story Prize, Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Prize, Bridport Poetry Prize, Bridport Prize Young Writers Award, Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award in Poetry, Pacific Spirit Poetry Grand Prize, Mslexia Women’s Pamphlet Prize, Manchester Poetry Prize, Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize, Eric Gregory Award, Michael Marks Award, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award’s Poetry Prize, Derby Poetry Festival Poetry Prize, Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize
Unstitching Silence, edited by Shivanee N. Ramlochan and Lucy Evans, forms part of the multi-tiered project “Representing gender-based violence: literature, performance and activism in the Anglophone Caribbean”, was supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council – AHRC.
With new writing by:
- Christine Barrow • Barbados
- Sara Bastian • The Bahamas
- Neala Luna Bhagwansingh • Trinidad and Tobago
- kevanté ac cash • The Bahamas
- Courtney Conrad • Jamaica
- Kevin Jared Hosein • Trinidad and Tobago
- karen lee • Jamaica
- Caroline Mackenzie • Trinidad and Tobago
- Tanicia Pratt • The Bahamas
- Dwight Thompson • Jamaica
