November 11, 2010

Who's Your Daddy? Nominated for BIAJ Award



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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