JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Sunday, February 23, 2025

Emerging writers prize opens for entries

by

20130724

The Hol­lick Ar­von Caribbean Writ­ers Prize, the largest prize for emerg­ing Caribbean writ­ers, has opened for en­tries to its 2014 lit­er­ary non-fic­tion round.Award­ed each year at the NGC Bo­cas Lit Fest in Port-of-Spain, the Hol­lick Ar­von Prize is an open com­pe­ti­tion for emerg­ing writ­ers liv­ing any­where in the An­glo­phone re­gion of the Caribbean and writ­ing in Eng­lish.The Prize has a to­tal val­ue of �10,000 and al­lows a writer to de­vote time to ad­vanc­ing a work in progress. In­clud­ed is a year's men­tor­ing by an es­tab­lished au­thor, trav­el to the Unit­ed King­dom to at­tend a one-week in­ten­sive Ar­von cre­ative writ­ing course of the win­ner's choice, and a cash pay­ment of �3,000. The win­ning writer will al­so have three days in Lon­don to net­work with lit­er­ary pro­fes­sion­als, host­ed by Ar­von, in as­so­ci­a­tion with Free Word Cen­tre and agents Rogers, Co­leridge and White.

The in­au­gur­al Hol­lick Ar­von Prize, award­ed for fic­tion, was won ear­li­er this year by Trinida­di­an Bar­bara Jenk­ins. Five oth­er writ­ers, from the Ba­hamas, Bermu­da, and T&T were short­list­ed. In its sec­ond year, the Hol­lick Ar­von Prize is open to emerg­ing writ­ers of lit­er­ary non-fic­tion on­ly.A re­lease from the or­gan­is­ers said the sub­mis­sion dead­line for the 2014 Prize is Sep­tem­ber 30. Writ­ers sub­mit­ting en­tries that meet the cri­te­ria will have a chance to have their work as­sessed by a pan­el com­pris­ing Hol­lick and Ar­von rep­re­sen­ta­tives, plus an agent from the Rogers, Co­leridge & White lit­er­ary agency, and two rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Bo­cas Lit Fest. The win­ner will be an­nounced at the NGC Bo­cas Lit Fest in April 2014.The Hol­lick Ar­von Caribbean Writ­ers Prize is spon­sored by the Hol­lick Fam­i­ly Char­i­ta­ble Trust in as­so­ci­a­tion with the lead­ing lit­er­ary char­i­ta­ble trust, the Ar­von Foun­da­tion (both based in Lon­don) and the non-prof­it Bo­cas Lit Fest, based in T&T.

La­dy Hol­lick, Trustee of the Hol­lick Fam­i­ly Char­i­ta­ble Trust says, "The Hol­lick Fam­i­ly Char­i­ta­ble Trust is very pleased to be able to con­tribute to all the work go­ing on to sup­port and ad­vance Caribbean writ­ing. Judg­ing from year one of the Prize, it is clear that it can make a tan­gi­ble dif­fer­ence to emerg­ing writ­ers in the re­gion, and we are proud to be in part­ner­ship with Ar­von and the or­gan­is­ers of Trinidad and To­ba­go's an­nu­al lit­er­ary fes­ti­val in this project."Ruth Borth­wick, Ar­von's CEO com­ments, "Ar­von was thrilled with the re­sponse to the in­au­gur­al year of the Hol­lick Ar­von Caribbean Writ­ers Prize. It was a clear in­di­ca­tion of the qual­i­ty and po­ten­tial of Caribbean fic­tion writ­ers. We are look­ing for­ward to wel­com­ing the win­ner, Bar­bara Jenk­ins, to an Ar­von cen­tre, and see­ing the range of lit­er­ary non-fic­tion en­tries in 2014."

Ac­cord­ing to Ma­ri­na Sa­landy-Brown, di­rec­tor of the NGC Bo­cas Lit Fest, "The first year of the Prize saw a tremen­dous re­sponse across the re­gion to this rare and valu­able op­por­tu­ni­ty to progress one's writ­ing. The cal­i­bre of fic­tion en­tries was high and we have every rea­son to be­lieve it will be the same for lit­er­ary non-fic­tion. It is an ex­cit­ing time and we are look­ing for­ward to mak­ing con­tact with more of the very tal­ent­ed emerg­ing writ­ers who need the sup­port and recog­ni­tion that the Hol­lick Ar­von Prize of­fers."Go to www.bo­caslit­fest.com/hol­lick-ar­von-caribbean-writ­ers-prize.html to down­load an en­try form, for more in­for­ma­tion on this year's Prize and for a de­scrip­tion of what writ­ing is in­clud­ed in the lit­er­ary non-fic­tion genre.

Con­tact george.palmer@ar­von­foun­da­tion.org or tele­phone 011 44 207 324 2554 for en­quiries.


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored