CLS is looking for a new website host/owner

By Anouska Kock

Ownership of CLS is currently open to interested members. If you think you are up to the task, please contact me through private messaging.  I hope to select a suitable successor by the end of this month (January 2012).

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'I Am Nobody's Nigger': Reclaiming Abusive Terms - Can it Be Done?

By PeepalTree Press

In the wake of the Stephen Lawrence retrial (where we had some kind of victory at last!), poet Dean Atta penned a powerful poem on the use of the word 'nigger' and its use by rappers and Black people as a reclaimed term.
His poem has since gone viral, with coverage given to his performance by The Guardian and other media heavyweights. You can read and/or listen to the poem here. We invite you to share your responses afterwards (whether as a comment, a testimony or a poem. Read more 

Writers’ workshop encourages new Caribbean literary voices

The seventh Caribbean Creative Writers’ Residential Workshop sponsored by The Cropper Foundation and organised in partnership with the Department of Creative and Festival Arts and the Department of Liberal Arts, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, will take place from July 8 to 19 in T&T. Ten writers who have not as yet published a novel or collection of short stories, poems or plays, will be chosen from across the Caribbean to join this year’s residential workshops. The 2012 workshop will focus on fiction, playwriting and poetry and will be facilitated by Professor Funso Aiyejina and Dr Merle Hodge at a secluded writing-inducing setting location somewhere in Trinidad.   Read more