2025 OCM Bocas Prize shortlists:Resistance, Refuge, Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica (Papillote Press)
Resistance Refuge Revival Shortlisted for 2025 OCM Bocas Prize Lennox Honychurch’s Resistance, Refuge, Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica, has been shortlisted for the 2025 Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. “Resistance Refuge Revival: The...
Summer Reading Challenge
The Reading Agency Summer Reading Challenge We’re thrilled that Good Night My Sweet Island, our new children’s picture book written by Petrea Honychurch Seaman and illustrated by Susanne Heitz , has been chosen by the UK’s Reading Agency as one of only 25 picture...
First Visit – Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey for the first time. Forty years ago last month I first visited Dominica – in my capacity as a journalist – to interview writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey (and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles) for a UK...
Elma Napier Remembered
ELMA NAPIER REMEMBERED It is 50 years this month since the death of Elma Napier, writer, pioneering environmentalist, and the first woman to sit in a West Indian House of Assembly. She arrived in Dominica via Scotland, her birthplace; Australia where she went with her...