Guyana Prize for Literature

28/01/2017

Ensure you visit the Guyana Prize for Literature website for more information on the 2016 Prize. Check it out @ guyanaprizeforliterature.org

05/01/2017

Click the Links below to download the Rules and Criteria for the 2016 Guyana and Caribbean Prizes for Literature.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0O4mWeadT8LYmhqZjFoQjN5SzA/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0O4mWeadT8LNTI4dG5tRnNkYjA/view?usp=sharing

Also check out our UPDATE page on the Guyana Prize for Literature Website:

http://guyanaprizeforliterature.doodlekit.com/home/updates

23/05/2016

23/05/2016

"THE GUYANA PRIZE LAUREATES"
UNIVERSITY OF GUYANA
Guyana Prize for Literature, and The Department of Culture, National Commemoration Commission

GOLDEN JUBILEE LITERARY FESTIVAL
THURSDAY MAY 19, 2016
5.00 PM at the National Library
Georgetown

WINNERS OF THE GUYANA PRIZE
Meet the Public / Readings from their works

Paloma Mohamed
Ryhaan Shah
Ian McDonald
Mosa Telford
Subraj Singh

Talk about their work / Interact with the audience

GRAND EXHIBITION OF GUYANESE LITERATURE
GUYANESE WRITERS & THE GUYANA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 1987 - 2014
on display during the session

07/01/2016

Academic Grounding Working Group Symposia Series
Call for Participation Theme: Guyana at 50: Understanding Our Independence Journey

Please follow the link below to download the pdf document:

http://www.mediafire.com/view/fyl3zap0c5yap67/50th_INDEPENDENCE_ANNIVERSARY_SYMPOSIA_CALL_FORPAPER_%26__PARTICIPATION.%5BIII%5D_%281%29.pdf

02/12/2015

After hectic week we've wrapped up the Guyana Prize Festival week. Here are the list of events and dates they were held. We'll be uploading pictures during the day. Keep following us.

Thursday Nov 27 :
The Edgar Mittelholzer Lecture
“Landscape and the Language of the Imagination: Reading Guyanese Literature”
Delivered by Prof Mark McWatt, Chairman of the Jury, 2014 Guyana Prize.

SUNDAY NOV 29
7.00 pm : at the Pegasus Hotel
THE GUYANA PRIZE AWARDS PRESENTATION CEREMONY
Announcement and presentation of the winners and the Judges’ Reports for The Guyana Prize – Fiction, Poetry and Drama; and
The Caribbean Awards – Fiction, Poetry and Drama.

MONDAY NOV 30
5.00 pm – National Library
“The Laureates”
READINGS BY THE GUYANA PRIZE WINNERS
All the Guyana and Caribbean Prize winners reading and talking about their work.

TUESDAY DEC 1
5.00 pm – National Library
THE MARTIN CARTER MEMORIAL LECTURE
“The Bowling Was Superfine: West Indian Writers and West Indian Cricket”
Dr Stewart Brown
Chairman of the Jury, 2014 Caribbean Prize.

There will be more new events in 2016, the year of Guyana’s Golden Jubilee

02/12/2015

The Guyana Prize for Literature held its Awards Presentation Ceremony on Sunday 19th November. The winners of the various awards are as follows:

Guyana Prize

BEST BOOK OF FICTION
David Dabydeen, Johnson’s Dictionary (Peepal Tree)

BEST BOOK OF POETRY
Maggie Harris, 60 Years of Loving (Cane Arrow Press)

BEST BOOK OF DRAMA
Harold Bascom, Desperate for Relevance

BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTION
Subraj Singh, Rebelle and Other Stories

BEST FIRST BOOK OF POETRY
Stanley Niamatali, The Hinterlands (Caribbean Press)

Caribbean Award

BEST BOOK OF FICTION
Barbara Jenkins, (Trinidad and Tobago), Sic Transit Waggon (Peepal Tree)

BEST BOOK OF POETRY
Edward Baugh, (Jamaica), Black Sand, (Peepal Tree)

BEST BOOK OF DRAMA
Harold Bascom, Desperate for Relevance

13/11/2015

Shortlist for Guyana Prize for Literature 2014 (Caribbean Award)
The Management Committee of The Guyana Prize for Literature announces the Shortlist for the 2014 Caribbean Awards in Fiction, Poetry and Drama. The Caribbean Award, inaugurated in 2010, is open to writers who are citizens of any Caribbean territory. The Shortlist was decided by the Jury, an independent panel of writers, critics and experts in the fields of literature, drama, culture and the arts: Dr Stewart Brown (Chairman), Reader in the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, UK; internationally acclaimed poet, artist, editor, anthologist and critic; Rawle Gibbons, foremost Trinidadian and Caribbean playwright, theatre director, researcher in cultural studies and traditions, drama anthologist; Prof Jane Bryce, published prose writer, Professor of Film and Literature, UWI, Cave Hill, Editor of Poui Cave Hill Journal of the Arts, lecturer in Creative Writing, and critic. The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony in Georgetown on November 29. The Shortlist are accompanied by the way Jury described each title.

Congratulations those shortlisted individuals.

To download the full document and links please click on the following links:

http://www.4shared.com/office/uFiiktyAce/Shortlists_Caribbean_Award.html

http://www.4shared.com/office/qgKbgQwjba/Guyana_Prize_for_Literature_Ca.html

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09/11/2015

The Management Committee of The Guyana Prize for Literature announces the Shortlist for the 2014 Awards in Fiction, Poetry and Drama, as decided by the Jury, an independent panel of writers, critics and experts in the fields of literature, drama, culture and the arts: Prof Mark McWatt, internationally acclaimed award winning fiction writer and poet, critic and academic; Mrs Ameena Gafoor, literary and arts critic, Editor of The Arts Journal, Founder of The Arts Forum; Robert Leyshon, Senior Lecturer at UWI, Cave Hill, Director of the Cave Hill Theatre, dramatist and critic; Dr Louis Regis, Head of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies at UWI, St Augustine, researcher in Cultural Studies, critic and academic. The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony on November 29.

Congratulations those shortlisted individuals.

To download the full document and links please click on the following links:

http://www.4shared.com/office/hH0k8N-Mba/Guyana_Prize__2014_Shortlist.html

http://www.4shared.com/office/IYkBEPs_ce/Guyana_Prize_For_Literature_20.html

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19/10/2015

UNIVERSITY of GUYANA

THE GUYANA PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

October 16, 2015

The Guyana Prize for Literature wishes to advise of the following schedule for the award of The Guyana Prize for Literature:

-The shortlists for the Guyana Prize in Fiction, Poetry
and Drama, including First Books of Poetry and Fiction, will be announced on October 31, 2015;

-The Shortlists for The Guyana Prize for Literature Caribbean Award
in Fiction, Poetry and Drama will be announced on October 31, 2015;

-The Awards Ceremony is scheduled to be held on November 29, 2015 at 7.00 pm;

-All the awards for The Guyana Prize
(for Guyanese writers) and the Caribbean Award (open to all Caribbean writers, including Guyanese)
will be announced and presented at that ceremony.

The Guyana Caribbean Prize was first awarded in 2010 when the winner for Fiction was Haitian novelist Myriam Chancy, withThe Loneliness of Angels, and the winner for Poetry was Guyanese Mark McWatt,withThe Journey to Le Repentir.

Yours faithfully

Al Creighton

Guyana Prize for Literature

and Caribbean Awards.