![]() ![]() Patricia, thank you so much for your novel, The Fullness of Everything. Powell is a professor of English and director of the MFA Programme in Creative Writing at Mills College in Oakland, California.ġ. She is the author of Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda and The Fullness of Everything. Patricia Powell grew up in rural Manchester and emigrated to the US in 1981. This week, the featured writer is Patricia Powell. We encourage you to pick up copies of their books and add them to your summer reading lists. This summer, Bookends will celebrate six Jamaican fiction writers in a series of interviews by author/poet/visual artist Jacqueline Bishop. Journeying Towards Integration: Novelist Patricia Powell Tackles Healing in Her Most Recent Novel Writer credits: Sharon Leach, Gwyneth Harold Davidson, Jacqueline Bishop They were (from left): Basil "Kusoonogo" Lopez Only as the Wind Blows, Ants and the River (Jamaica) Tiphanie Yanique, Land of Love and Drowning (US Virgin Islands) Denecia Green Sex, Lies and Betrayal, and Russel Brooks The Demeter Code (Barbados). Other authors represented by Bazba at the Harlem Book Fair were: Dr Michael Barnett, (Jamaica) Rastafari in the New Millennium Laura Francis Sharma (Trinidad), Til The Well Runs Dry Naomi Jackson (Barbados) Star Side of Bird Hill and other Jamaicans Steve Cole, Nuggets of Truth- Golden Principles for Successful Living Teisha Mott, Persaud Girl Series Mandisa Parnell, The Boy Next Door and Gwyneth Harold Davidson, Young Heroes of the Caribbean.īazba's goal is to attract more Caribbean nationals to the fair, and will continue to focus on that as it prepares for Bazba's sixth-year involvement at the fair and its second year representing Caribbean authors.ĬAP: Caribbean Authors at Harlem Book FairĬaribbean authors took a photo call after reading to hundreds of festival goers at the 17th annual Harlem Book Fair on July 18 in Harlem, New York. I was able to speak on a main stage in front of a large number of people for the first time, and was interviewed for an hour on Mello FM in Brooklyn." Green promoted her novel Lies, Sex & Betrayal. "It opened a world of opportunity for me. Young adult and graphic novel fiction writer Denecia Green of Jamaica, whose writing career started at the Teen Herald, said that the festival gave her a lot of exposure. The Harlem Book Fair is the fitting opportunity to acknowledge the Caribbean contribution to the literature of the African diaspora, to American culture and to give it its rightful place in the canon of world literature." Especially so American culture and geography, which is thoroughly informed by the migrational and cultural contributions from Caribbean peoples. Additionally, a panel discussion focused on 'Writing the Caribbean Life', held at the Countee Cullen Library Auditorium, gave the Bazba represented authors Basil 'Kusoonogu' Lopez, Denecia Green, Russell Brooks and Tiphanie Yanique a platform to share expressions about writing from a Caribbean perspective.įounder of the Harlem Book Fair Max Rodriquez said, "The Caribbean and its writers have a long history of impacting world literature and culture. The selection of one of Bazba's featured authors as an awardee helped to generate more interest among patrons. Yanique was awarded 2015 Harlem Book Review, Phillis Wheatley Award for Fiction the award is named in honour of African-born and American-enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley, the first published poet of African-American descent. Among Bazba's collection was The Land of Love and Drowning by Tiphanie Yanique of the Virgin Islands. It was an all-day, indoor and outdoor event supported by Colombia University School of the Arts, The New York Public Library (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), Barnes and Noble Booksellers, C-SPAN 2 Book TV, Hotel Beacon and City Sightseeing New York and Dark and Lovely.īooks carried by Bazba, a Jamaican-based publishing and literary arts company, represented independently published authors from the region and works from other publishers with Caribbean connections. Bazba was the official flagship carrier of the English Language Caribbean books at the fair. Caribbean Authors Promoted at Harlem Book Fair īazba Theatrical Players Ltd (Bazba) reported good exposure for the Caribbean authors they represented at the 17th annual Harlem Book Fair, which was held on Jin Harlem, New York City. ![]()
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