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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · 6d

Page Turners Plus: A conversation with Marcia Douglas.

Her newest work, The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, is simply magic in written form.

youtu.be/9jYT3XD66Jg?...

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · 9d

Survived the summer grind. I can end my social media break. PhD chapter and time at McMaster is over. New home is TMU and the Department of English. 😀

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 24

Read poems by John Robert Lee and Amílcar Peter Sanatan in sx salon 49. Both writers dedicate pieces to the Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist, Lorna Goodison.

smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...

Photo credit: Marion Nelson and Allen Sherman

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Aug 1

Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison.

Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...

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Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline.bsky.social · Jul 13

JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025, features two interviews.

Anita Baksh interviews Rajiv Mohabir (@rajivmohabir.bsky.social)

Ronald Cummings interviews Linzey Corridon (@westofwestindian.bsky.social)

Check out these interviews in the most recent issue of JWIL.
www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Jul 6

New collab with the incomparable Ronald Cummings is out in Journal of West Indian Literature. Do take a moment to read more about the magic that went into producing my first book project.

www.jwilonline.org

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Caribbean Philosophical Association @caribphil.bsky.social · Jun 23

Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Jun 19

West of West Indian is shortlisted for the 2025 Caricon Prize for Literature. If you are a believer in the project, consider casting a vote in support of the title. ☺️

awards.cari-con.org

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Jun 18

Where Oceans Join: Landscapes, Seascapes, Archipelagoes in Circum-Caribbean Ecologies

6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine

Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · May 23

New poems and a critical conversation in Poetry in Place. I’ll be reading from the work this weekend. If you’re in Hamilton on May 24, come through and support the official book launch!😀

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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · May 21

excited to announce a revised, expanded version of Policing Black Lives (@fernpub.bsky.social /Duke University Press) now available for pre-order, out October 15. ft. two new chapters, a new preface & an expanded conclusion. US version now offering 30% off with author code E26MYRD.

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 21

In sx salon 48, Oriana Mejías Martínez @leors.bsky.social reviews two books on migration in the Caribbean: (i) Anthea Morrison’s New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives and (ii) Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art.

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · May 14

Body in North America, spirit in the Caribbean. Always coming home. Thank you @bocaslitfest.bsky.social 🥹

Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · May 13

#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with: @westofwestindian.bsky.social, @abagoo.bsky.social, Yvonne Weekes, Anthony Joseph, and more! Full album at: facebook.com/media/set?va...
#alwayscominghome

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 14

In sx salon 48, Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social reviews Oneka LaBennett’s Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond @nyupress.bsky.social.

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · May 9

Back to regular programming in Canada. I’ll be visiting the Orangeville Public Library next weekend. 😄

Registration link below:
calendar.orangevillelibrary.ca/default/Deta...

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Matt Bishop @matthewlbishop.bsky.social · May 7

Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social

medium.com/clash-voices...

Red Wedding: Trinidad and Tobago After Keith Rowley

Ten years after working people brokered a marriage of convenience with Rowley and the PNM, this red wedding ended in a political bloodbath.

medium.com

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · May 7

Announcing the launch of sx salon 48. The issue includes essays by Amandla Thomas-Johnson and Stéphane Martelly, reviews by Sasha Ann Panaram, Oriana Méjías Martinez, Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon, poems by Letitia Marie Pratt, and stories by José Darío Martínez Milantchi and Alicia Valasse-Polius.

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · Apr 25

CAISO's high-octane BackChat is back, featuring an incredible lineup including Lesley-Ann Wanliss, alexispauline.bsky.social, @westofwestindian.bsky.social, abagoo.bsky.social, Angelique V. Nixon, Daniel Blaze, @dennyspeaks.bsky.social, earth, @novelniche.bsky.social, and Tamara Ali.
#bocas2025

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Apr 28

In Trinidad for a bit. Feel free to come through and say hello. 😉

Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Apr 25

If you’re at GritLit Festival today, come say hello!

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Apr 24

“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”

Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛

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Poetry Written in the Margins of a Visa Application

reading Linzey Corridon at the intersection of border bureaucracy and soft cultural memory

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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well, there it is. I said this would happen. Not even a "sort of" Canadian book on the Griffin shortlist. Fuck this. Don't go to a Griffin event until they change it back.

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Apr 23

WoW in the wild. Folks in BIM continue to show the work nothing but love. Copies are available for purchase at Black Rock Books. 😀

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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social · Apr 20

Looking forward to this conversation with you, Andre!

Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · Apr 20

Birthday-month bashment continues. 🍰 🍃

April’s been splendid, but I’m also looking forward to reading from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest at an event with the poet Linzey Corridon on May 3 at the National Library. For full festival details check out @bocaslitfest.bsky.social

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sx salon @sxsalon.bsky.social · Apr 19

A memorial reading honoring the life and work of Danielle Legros Georges will be held at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston on Sunday, May 4, from 1 to 5 pm. Featuring readings by over twenty writers, poets, and publishers. Free & open to the public.

RSVP at daniellememorial.splashthat.com.

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