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Activity Sheets for Good Night My Sweet Island
Activity Sheets – Exclusive bumper pack of 16 activities, through the Reading Agency’s Summer Reading Program 2024 for Good Night My Sweet Island.
Looking for Cazabon By Lawrence Scott
Lawrence Scott’s Looking for Cazabon, reflects on the watercolours and the sites of the 19th-century Trinidadian artist Michel Jean Cazabon.
Summer Reading Challenge
We’re delighted that Good Night My Sweet Island, our new children’s picture book by Petrea Honychurch Seaman and illustrated by Susanne Heitz has been chosen by the UK’s Reading Agency as one of only 25 picture books for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge.
Remembering Clayton Shillingford
Dr Clayton Shillingford, who sadly died last month, was one of 22 Dominican returnees who featured in Home Again: Stories of Migration and Return.
First Visit – Meeting Dominica and Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Forty years ago I first visited Dominica to interview writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey (and Prime Minister Eugenia Charles) for a UK newspaper.
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.
And Still They Stand
Blog Post about two reviews of Papillote Press’ Still Standing: the Ti Kais of Dominica by Adom Philogene Heron, with photographs by Marica Honychurch.
My Ti Kai, My Home
Olive Bell remembers life in a ti kai as a child and how that experience inspired her to become an architect. She collaborated on the making of ‘Still Standing” The ti kai of Dominica.
Making Connections
Three women writers of Dominica – Jean Rhys, subject of much acclaimed biography by Miranda Seymour, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, and Elma Napier.
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.
Series of en Papillote Press Book Readings
A reading from Dangerous Freedom
A reading from RIFF
A reading from Home Home
A reading from Gone to Drift
A reading from The Art of White Roses
A reading from Abraham’s Treasure
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