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By Afreeca Daniel First place winner in the 2021 Ellsworth “Shake” Keane / UWI Open Campus Poetry Competition   Mango Seasons Were Like Black Women With Polished Curls It was those days of May again The days May swept together to form one last heap. Where the short rain met tenacious heat. Mango trees were promising the valleys That theyll soon be in the height of their prime. ’Harsie’ and …

By Afreeca Daniel First place winner in the 2021 Ellsworth “Shake” Keane / UWI Open Campus Poetry Competition   Mango Seasons Were Like Black Women With Polished Curls It was those days of May again The days May swept together to form one last heap. Where the short rain met tenacious heat. Mango trees were promising the valleys That theyll soon be in the height of their prime. ’Harsie’ and …

Literary Awards presented Kathy Badenock took the Nigel Thomas Award for top 2020 work of Fiction with her production called, ‘Twilight in the Tropics’. Denise Westfield, who penned the story ‘On her way home’ placed second, and Tamara Toney with ‘The silence she inherited’, earned the third spot. These awardees and others were recognised last Monday evening at a Literary Awards Ceremony, a collaboration involving The University of the West Indies Open Campus and the Association of...