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BWSI 2010

17 July 2010

BWSI 2010! Bahamas Writers’ Summer Workshop 2010. First public meeting/discussion @ the Hub is ongoing. First – what? Panel? Reclaiming the Bahamian imaginal. Discussion about where we situate ourselves and how and how writing must be situated in the imagination of a nation. Commodification of the self – of the national and the personal self [...]

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Recessing and Vacating

22 November 2009

The last post generated some discussion over on Facebook, where I import posts from Blogworld, and where a lot of discussion takes place. Here’s some of what was said: Dennis Jones: Got to say I am not impressed. Starts with a good false premise about locals and conch fritters, then…’seeks to educate’ those who presumably [...]

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Generation Y

11 November 2009

Generation Y It’s been a long time since I was able to follow the blogs I read, partly because I’ve been doing so much other stuff but largely because I still can’t add bookmarks to Safari and I haven’t taken to other feed-readers. So I haven’t been discovering new blogs or dropping old ones — [...]

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Bahamas Writers’ Summer Institute

14 July 2009

You know, it’s about time I blogged about this topic. It’s been coming for a good long while, and now we’re in its third and middle week, and it seems to be going really really well. What is it? you ask. Well, I could give you a long answer, but I’ll spare you that. Here’s [...]

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Interview – Antilles: the weblog of the CRB

13 June 2009

I count Nicholas Laughlin as one of my cyberfriends, though I think we really met over the telephone during the last CARIFESTA (such arts festivals are always, truly, such a waste of time, are they not? They make no connections, advance no careers, clearly, and they are so much a waste of money that we [...]

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The Role of the Writer in Society

21 September 2008

On Thursday past, the organizers of the Bahamas International Literary Festival (BILF), a new-brand entity, so new it don’t even have itself a webspace yet, held a literary forum that served as a precursor to the festival. Six Bahamian writers were invited to present on the topic The Role of the Writer in Society. I was [...]

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