The JaWS/JAMCOPY Lignum Vitae Writing Awards Background: The Jamaican Writers Society (JaWS) and the Jamaican Copyright Licensing Agency (JAMCOPY) are collaborating to resuscitate the Una Marson and Vic Reid Awards for adult and children’s literature respectively. These nationally instituted awards, by the now dormant National Book Development Council (NBDC) are being re-vitalized and re-imagined in order … Continue reading Jean D’costa Award for Children’s Literature
Category: Jamaican Writers
Jamaica’s Golden Year: Free Book available on Amazon by Poetess Denise N. Fyffe
Letter to my WordPress supporters, Several of my books are available on this website and periodically on Amazon.com for free book review. Please read and leave a review on Amazon.com. You can download on a Kindle device, tablet or even your PC. Look out for a new title each week in December. Again leave a … Continue reading Jamaica’s Golden Year: Free Book available on Amazon by Poetess Denise N. Fyffe
Gun Salute to the aging year of our Lord, 2015
Lying on my back, stretched out on the bed, concentrating on the next move. I glanced at the computer clock as it states 11:58 p.m. I continue playing my game, trying to line up apples with apples and carrots with carrots; feeling no concern that 2015 was just a tick and a tock away. Soon, … Continue reading Gun Salute to the aging year of our Lord, 2015
The Calabash Experience 2014 – Day 2
Day 2 was chock full of delicious bites of poetry, stories and various literary works. The day started with Jamaican poets and writers, Milicent Graham, Ann Margaret Lim and Jamaica's Poet Laureate, Mervyn Morris. Then the day proceeded with writers such as Zadie Smith who carried the audience on an imagery travel through Cameroon and … Continue reading The Calabash Experience 2014 – Day 2
The Calabash Experience 2014 – Day 1
Beverly East greeted us with her UK accent and Jamaican storytelling. She recapped her life in UK and her childhood with her grandma in the country. Serious and Funny were the chapters, as she took the audience 50 years back in a time when Jamaican immigration was at its highest.Grandma 6 rules surely had the … Continue reading The Calabash Experience 2014 – Day 1
Mosquito and Chikungunya cartoon, humor
This is what it looks like when I come out of my house in the mornings. Serious attack by Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes during the chikungunya epidemic.
Jamaican Review: Phillips and Phillips, Forgotten Feet manager uses intimidation and bullying tactics after review
I wrote a review based off my very bad experience with Jamaican shoe store Phillips and Phillips, Forgotten Feet in New Kingston, Jamaica and many other places for that matter, that's what I do, I am a writer. Usually, I highlight some of my encounters in hopes that others may learn to up their A-game and … Continue reading Jamaican Review: Phillips and Phillips, Forgotten Feet manager uses intimidation and bullying tactics after review
Jamaican Health: Jamaica, The Chikungunya virus FAQ
Jamaica is facing an epidemic, the Chikungunya virus, like it has never seen before in its history. Contrary to reports, there are thousands of people in Jamaica with the chikungunya virus; not the measly 37 that's been officially report. Our hospitals, medical centers and clinics are filled with ailing people, walking around like patients with … Continue reading Jamaican Health: Jamaica, The Chikungunya virus FAQ
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – Genetics and parental influence on a child’s behaviour
I am my mother's child, and my father's as well. The older I get the more I learn and the more stories I hear of my parent's past that makes me go, "OH! I see where I get that from." Like my mother. Not until her golden years, have I realized how much of a … Continue reading The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree – Genetics and parental influence on a child’s behaviour
Jamaican Health: Jamaica and The Chikungunya virus in Cartoons
Jamaica is now feeling the mild wrath of the Chikungunya Virus. This is the situation, captured aptly by Clovis.
Jamaica Pen Publishers 