Did you know Jacques Stephen Alexis, the Haitian literary giant, authored a 1998 novel that blends magical realism with political critique? His works challenged post-colonial narratives and inspired Caribbean intellectuals. (Q120926551) #MagicalRealism #CaribbeanLit
Cover: A painting or illustration of a female figure in a yellow top, red head scarf and blue-green skirt that's also the upper part of a (presumably) man's chest; her upper body is superimposed on his face in profile. Her chest is a cage with a bird in it. The little text is on the lower part of the cover.
I'm just finishing off another Caribbean read, Tall is Her Body x Robert de la Chevotière. Lots of obeah! And gorgeous writing, mostly. #CaribbeanLit #ReadCaribbean
Home sweet home 🇹🇹✨ Back in Trinidad where steelpan, pelau, and a quick doubles lime remind me why I never left in spirit.
📚 Join me Oct 11 & Oct 25 to celebrate books, belonging, and community. scarletibisjames.com
#Trinidad #CaribbeanLit #ScarletIbisJames
Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2025 longlists announced
#LiteraryAwards #LiteraryFestivals #Fiction #CaribbeanLit
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A flyer with the front covers of 30 Caribbean titles headlined "National Caribbean American Heritage Month Official Book List 2025"
I see Miss Pauline here, in good company.
#Caribbean
#CaribbeanLit
#Books 💙📚
#Booksky
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172. SAINT VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
#ReadTheWorld #CaribbeanLit
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Did you know Marie-Célie Agnant’s 2004 novel *Livre d'Emma* explores themes of memory and identity? This powerful work by the Haitian-Canadian author delves into the silenced voices of women in history. #CaribbeanLit #Identity #PostcolonialWriting (Q16968568)
Cover of The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull. Features a central image of a conch shell with teal tentacles extending outward. The text is bold and red, standing out against a black background.
Umm, a book about an alien occupation in the Caribbean with colonialist commentary? Sign me up!
#CurrentRead is The Lesson by @cadwellturnbull.bsky.social
#CaribbeanLit #SciFiReads #BlackBookSky #BlackSky #DiverseBookSky #SciFiBooks #BookSky
The Caribbean Sea, she's got a power like no other. Gorgeous and enticing in her most tranquil turquoise hue, beckoning one into her warm embrace. Into the power of mile-high gentle waves pulling you deeper and deeper.
Beauty & danger. Irresistible.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky #Mexico
A great book to disappear into? Pillars of the Earth. What an amazing, well written, well researched book with beautiful storytelling. When the world hands you exploitative dirty politics, read about 12th century anarchy.
#SamBacchus
#KenFollet
#CaribbeanLit
Back when we had to run to the one neighbour who owned a landline. Ours was a stoic lady who gave people privacy.
My friend, in another part of town, now she had the phone neighbour who actually put a glass and ear to the wall to hear better.
Warbled gossip was hilarious.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit
I can't get dragged into the angst of politics, I really can't. Cancer loves this stress, and the first time around, it made the cancer explode in me. For now, I will write about farmers and the wonderful work they do in keeping us alive.
And #fiction, yeah #CaribbeanLit before 1985
#SamBacchus
Today, #writing about tropical heat, a teeming rainforest and passionate South American souls...and outside my windows is this. Writers do so love juxtaposition. We thrive on it. We create dreams when the world is stark and cold and beautiful like a snowstorm in #Vancouver #SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit
In anticipation of tariffs and the fact we may never taste tropical fruits and vegetables again, I have booked 10 days in the Mexican Riviera to eat my fill. Cheers to canning and preserving again. And Botulism.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit
#Writer
I find the most wonderful stories in old tomes, or dry as heck theses, or in the records of history. It's like walking through a museum. It's not the relics, it's the story fleshed out around it.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #Booksky #Writer #Guyana
In Guyana there's a saying...If you drink the creek water of a place, you will never leave.
Warm sunny days, birdsong all day, golden sand, vibrant foliage, a literal green and gold paradise + fresh fruits of a thousand names, & no device need apply.
#Guyana #SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky
Deep forest trekking...We drank creek water from a leaf, and the guide plucked food...magical-delicious fruits and leaves and whatnot from the literal air. Oh yeah, and the fish caught themselves while we napped in hammocks under the trees by the river.
#SamBacchus #BookSky #CaribbeanLit #Guyana
AI is the most insidious thing, like a snake it enters and wraps itself within and around an industry until the life is squeezed out of it, and then it controls. Creativity is dead, new writers dreams and hopes dashed to the rocks.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky #Publishers #PenguinRandomHouse
Guyana...real events are the backdrop for my fictional characters. Colonialism, Post Colonialism, Socialism, and Independence. History.
Meanwhile dark history has flowed back into a country that prides itself on being a leader into the future.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky #HistoricalFiction
Driving down the East Coast road along the seawall, breeze whipping into the Suzuki Sidekick. The Eagles blasting on the cassette player. Minibuses honking madly, horse and carts competing for road space. The scents of sweet flowers and ripe mangoes
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #Booksky #Guyana #1980s
Look up, look out, all around us. These are the things that inspire me when I need a breather from whatever.
#Bluesky #lavender #sunset #SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #Vancouver
You know that fist pump, that "Yes!" When you get a sentence just right?
I'm addicted to it.
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
#WritingJourney
When the characters actually ask the writer to take a break so they can gather themselves for the next rollercoaster of a ride.
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#BookSky
#WritingProcess
Writing to make sense of the world is the best therapy.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #BookSky #BookSky
The beauty about being in my 50s... My characters are so full of life and pragmatism. Of losses and triumph and laughter.
Idealism exists, but in a literary sense, in retrospect, in the silliness of youth
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
#Booktok
We should not get so consumed by politics that we forget what we have.
Our neighbours, each other, people everywhere. We are still here, still citizens, we still love and care for each other.
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit #Booksky
#Bluesky
#BlueKind
I've got autonomy on #Bluesky
It's not meta. I can keep my community clean and real, so I can interact on an honest level.
That means I have discovered the joy of blocking bots, I love it!
Sex nonsense and bots begone, you are hereby banished 😂 thanks @Bluesky
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
Happy Friday Bluesky fam! Hope your weekend is a blast, and as exciting as those who laugh in perpetuity.
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
I'm from that time when... we tidy the house before the cleaning service comes, wash our hair before going to the salon, spend the whole day driving without using a finger, and know everyone in our neighbourhood.
The nosy parker gossip? Is all me.
I'm a writer🤷♀️
#SamBacchus #CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
#Flashes app, that's something I'm excited for! Except, it would be nice if it's separate from the #Bluesky app.
Most days I want to chat with others, some days I want to see life in pictures.
No, a picture will never tell a thousand words for me, ever #Writer
#SamBacchus
#CaribbeanLit
#Booksky
