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...
AND STILL THEY STAND… It’s refreshing when a review of a new book is imaginatively paired with another book, which could not – within the scope of the subject – be more different. In this case, Papillote Press’ Still Standing: the Ti Kais of Dominica...
My Ti Kai, My Home. Olive Bell Olive Bell, the Dominican architect remembers life in a tikai as a child and how that experience inspired her to become an architect. Olive Bell was part of the team who collaborated on the making of the just published book, ‘Still...
Making connections Women Writers Making connections… Three white women writers of Dominica – Jean Rhys, now the subject of a new and much acclaimed biography by Miranda Seymour, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, writer and politician, and Elma Napier, also writer,...
En Papillote reading by Mac Donald Dixon Papillote Press continues its En Papillote series with a reading by Mac Donald Dixon, author of the just published A Scream in the Shadows. A crime story, it is set in St Lucia. A death far from paradise. ...
Papillote Press authors at Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival. Two award-winning Papillote Press authors – Diana McCaulay and Lisa Allen-Agostini – talk about the relationships between mothers and daughters at the recent Brooklyn Caribbean Literary...