Who's Your Daddy? has been nominated in the Best Adult Creative Writing category for the Book Industry Association of Jamaica awards for 2010-2011. It's a crowded field of poets, short story writers, and novelists and many of the nominees have been featured at the Caribbean Review of Books, Repeating Islands, or on this blog:
So Much Things to Say, by Kwame Dawes & Colin Channer; Published by Akashic Books (Ibrahim Ahmad).
Angels of Reflection: Poems by Lil; Written and Published by Lilieth H. Nelson.
Heart Song, Written and Published by Blosson O' Meally-Nelson.
Sista Single, by Carla Barrett; Published by Rebaki Christian Publishers.
Snapshots From Istanbul, by Jacqueline Bishop; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
I Name Me Name, by Opal Palmer Aadisa; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
Intersections, by Frances Marie Coke; Published by Peepal Tree Press
A Permanent Freedom, by Curdella Forbes; Published by Peepal Tree Press
The Damp In Things, Millicent A. A. Graham; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
Far District, Ishion Hutchinson; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
Dog-Heart, by Diana McCaulay; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
Who's Your Daddy? And Other Stories, by Geoffrey Philp; Published by Peepal Tree Press
Leaving Traces, by Velma Pollard; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
The Fullness of Everything, by Patricia Powell; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
She Who Sleeps With Bones, by Tanya Shirley; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
After-Image, by Dennis Scott; Published by Peepal Tree Press.
Power Game, by Perry Henzell; Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited.
John Crow's Devil, by Marlon James; Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited.
The Girl with the Golden Shoes, by Colin Channer; Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited.
Crocodile, by Anthony Winkler; Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited.
Two Can Play & Other Plays, by Trevor Rhone; Published by Macmillan Publishers Limited.
Inner City Girl, by Colleen Smith-Dennis; Published by LMH Publishing.
The Day I Met Me; Written and published by Tracey Tucker.
Souldance, by Jean Lowrie-Chin; Published by Ian Randle Publishers.
Ten years ago, I imagined that this kind of abundance would eventually emerge from the region--not from one island. It's also good to see that Peepal Tree Press has garnered the majority of the submissions: Dem likkle but dem tallawah
Here's the link to vote:
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