St. Martin Book Fair, June 6 - 8, 2019.

Save the date for the 17th annual St. Martin Book Fair [Le Salon du livre de Saint-Martin], which will take place from June 6 to 8, 2019. Stay tuned via House of Nehesi Publishers for more information on the annual theme, guest speakers, and special events related to this international, multilingual and multicultural event.

Announced as “a book fair for the entire family,” the is organized annually by Conscious Lyrics Foundation, the Book Fair Committee, and House of Nehesi Publishers Foundation, in collaboration with St. Maarten Tourist Bureau, University of St. Martin, LC Fleming Foundation.


http://houseofnehesipublish.com/sxm/st-martin-book-fair/

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The Literary Hang 2012

By Juliet Emanuel


In 2012 the Literary Hang emphasizes publishing. Self publishers, small presses and larger companies are invited to participate.  This format allows all areas of publishing to display and promote their writers and their works. 

It also allows aspiring writers to explore any publishing options present on that day.  This event is proposed as one that promotes the creativity of Guyanese expression, in particular, and the Caribbean Diaspora, at large.


As part of the activities for the day publishers, accepted for The Literary Hang, may present their contracted writers during the day at their individual spaces. In addition, there will be a public reading by invited writers during the day.  


Part of that program will be an interview with the actors from the hugely successful 2011 adaptation of C. L. R. James' Minty Alley. All publishers will be responsible for the delivery, set up, sales and removal of all their own goods. GCA will not store any material or be responsible for any sales.


All genres of the published word, except pornography, will be considered for inclusion in the general activities of the day.  Magazines, graphic readers, e-books, children's literature, cookbooks, poetry, plays, videos and CD's of performances, novels, short stories and other prose are expected to form part of the offerings on display and for sale. This event is open to all ages and children are especially welcome.


There will be refreshments for sale.

The date of the Literary Hang is Saturday, June 9, 2012, at the Flatbush Reformed Church at the corner of Flatbush and Church Aves.  It will begin at 1 and end at 7 pm.

Interested parties must contact The Literary Hang Committee, Juliet Emanuel, Chair by e-mail, jaemanuel@cs.com or by calling Guyana Cultural Association of New York, Inc. The Secretariat at 718 209 5207, Claire A. Goring, 


Cultural Director.
The Literary Hang (TM) is a production of Guyana Cultural Association of 
New York, Inc.


The Literary Hang 2012 will be a gala celebration of the craft of writing and the book.





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Now Online: sx salon, issue 8

Welcome to sx salon’s first issue of 2012. As we have in past issues, here we offer you a variety of writings: reviews, interviews, poetry, and prose. Our discussion in this issue is perhaps even more varied than usual, bringing together a collection of pieces that consider the in-betweenity of Haitian identity. Of course, the mention of Haiti since 12 January 2010 is often, if not always, associated with the devastation of the earthquake, and our first two pieces address the then/now split created by that tectonic shift. First, Martin Munro discusses the first post-earthquake Haitian novel and includes a short interview with its author, Marvin Victor. The interview is also available in the original French. In the second discussion piece, Colin Dayan writes evocatively of the impossibility of return as she navigates between the shadows of remembered geographies (her mother’s and her own) and the new landscape of Haiti in the summer of 2011. Our second two pieces in this issue’s discussion explore the complexity of Haitian identity beyond the earthquake. In our third piece, Edwidge Danticat, with her characteristic lyricism, considers the “fellow urban nomads, reciters, and ambient voyagers” she encounters in the liminal world of cab rides, perhaps the most paradigmatic in-between space. Our fourth discussion piece is a short story from Roxane Gay exploring how personal trauma can shift identity as completely as national events. The title of Gay’s story, “What After Looks Like,” could perhaps be the title of the entire discussion.


In our interview section of this issue we publish part 2 of an interview with Caryl Phillips, along with the first of a series of interviews with female scholars of Caribbean literature. The series, conducted by Sheryl Gifford, will consist of four interviews exploring the contributions of these scholars to work on Caribbean writers, particularly Caribbean women writers.


We also have a mix of reviews in this issue, with essays on Rahul Bhattacharya’s The Sly Company of People Who Care, Colin Grant’s The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara’sSlavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World, and Louis Parascondola’s recent edited collection of Eric Walrond’s later writings. In Prose and Poetry we have new poems from Cynthia James, Nicholas Alexander, and Soyini Forde, as well as a stirring preview of Diana McCaulay’s upcoming novel,Huracan, in the excerpt “Zachary’s Arrival, Part I.”
This issue marks our shift to quarterly publication, so our next issue will be in May. We hope you enjoy sx salon8 (table of contents below).


Kelly Baker Josephs


http://smallaxe.net/wordpress3/discussions/2012/02/25/sx-salon-issue-8-february-2012/