Desiree Seebaran wins Caribbean writers prize
. Trinidad and Tobago poet Desiree Seebaran has won the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP), the region’s only prize for emerging writers. In the third and final year of the Prize, dedicated to the advancement of new Caribbean voices, Seebaran won out over the other two shortlisted poets, Akhim Alexis and Jay T. John. All three are Trinbagonians. The prize offers an opportunity to advance a current work in progress. In the official announcement during the Winners’ Row event at the 2021 NGC Bocas Lit Fest on Saturday, April 24 Seebaran was announced the wi...
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