Authors

Esteemed Journalist

Harold Hoyte, 74, is the retired President and Editor-in-Chief of The Nation Newspaper in Barbados. He is now Editor Emeritus and Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Film Director and Teacher

Russell Watson is an artist and teacher working in theater and digital imaging. He studied Drama in Education and Theatre Arts at the Edna Manley College in Jamaica and Film, Video and New Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Storyteller & Lit-Con host for Bim LitFest Children’s Fair

Also known as the Bajan Fairy, Empress Zingha is a spoken word artist, writer, 

Poet, Writer, Editor, Activist

Colin Robinson is a Trinidad poet, writer, editor and LGBT activist. His collection You Have You Father Hard Head is to be published by Peepal Tree later this year.

Poet, Writer, Literary Critic

Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, fiction writer and literary critic. She is the book review editor for Caribbean Beat, the in-flight magazine of Caribbean Airlines.

Teacher and Writer

Celeste St Hill has tutored creative writing to over 1,400 children in various Primary Schools and Young Writer’s Clinics across Barbados through the National Cultural Foundation’s Writers in Schools and Education Programme (WISE) since 2003 and i

Author

A-dZiko Simba Gegele is a prize winning author whose work has been published in the Caribbean, England and the United States. Her debut novel All Over Again, won the inaugural Burt Award for Caribbean Literature in 2014.

Coordinator, Bim LitFest Children's Fair

Linda is a Barbadian poet, essayist, editor, and storyteller.

Writer

Racquel Griffith is a recent graduate and a young writer who works very closely with Arts Etc and Writers Ink.

Spoken Word Performer, Actor, Visual Artist

Adrian Green is a Spoken Word Performer, Actor and Visual Artist.  Green is a two time Gold Award winner in Barbados’ National Festival of Creative Arts, a recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award in the performing arts, a three time Barbadian Slam

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