Poetry World Day-Floetry UPDATE – CANCELLED
UPDATE: Good Afternoon Poetry People Unfortunately we have to cancel Floetry for this coming Wednesday. We have a visiting children’s Author down doing some presentations. I have staff covering those events but do not have staff to cover the store…
Ten writers vie for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize
From NGC Bocas Lit Fest Writers from five countries are in the running for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. The Prize longlist, announced by the judges on 25 February, 2014, covers poetry,…
Valentine’s Day: 10 quotes about love from great authors
By Danny Heitman, Contributor From The Christian Science Monitor “Perhaps they were right in putting love into books,” William Faulkner wrote. “Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.” Faulkner’s words remind us that love and literature have always gone hand…
Three in Butterfly Race
Three bright primary school students are the winners in the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman Sunrise’s story-writing competition. Now as the nominees from the Cayman Islands, they will compete in the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean 7020 Butterfly Storybook Project….
January Events at Camana Bay
Camana Bay, Grand Cayman: From indulging in culinary delights with a Cayman Cookout dinner party and kicking it luau style with Ortanique’s signature pig roast to listening to the roar of engines at the Cayman Islands International Car Show and…
Caribbean Project: Review: The Big Truck That Went By
From Before It’s News Haiti Jonathan M. Katz’s The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster is a memoir by the only full time AP reporter who was stationed in…
Corporate executive goes off the deep end as a scuba diving entrepreneur
Ron Kipp was a rising star at IBM during the company’s heyday in the 1970s when he abruptly made a career change—he left the corporate world to own and operate a scuba diving business in the Cayman Islands. His story…
Colin Wilson, author of The Outsider, dies aged 82
From BBC Wilson wrote his breakthrough novel in the British Museum’s Reading Room British novelist Colin Wilson, best known as the author of The Outsider, has died aged 82. Colin Stanley, Wilson’s publisher and bibliographer, said the writer and philosopher…
Excerpts from “Life on the Wrong Planet”
A collection of short essays, rants, real-life stories and commentaries on the woeful state of common sense by H. G. Nowak (The Barefoot Man). “Things that p*** me off” “Life is tough but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.” – John…
End of Year Review: 2013 Caribbean Children’s and YA Books Continue Self-Publishing Trend
By Summer Edward From Summer Edward.com Well, it’s December, so as usual, I’m doing my year-end tally of English-language Caribbean children’s and YA books. Since 2011 (see previous lists here), I’ve been keeping track of the number of English-language Caribbean…
