Stefan Bindley-Taylor and Diana McCaulay won the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Literary Awards 2024 on Sunday, September 1, 2024.
The Brooklyn Caribbean Literature Festival (BCLF) is a celebration of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet, executed as a series of readings of classic and contemporary stories, workshops, talks, and book sales. Set in Brooklyn, New York it shines the spotlight on the output of the Caribbean artiste since its first edition in 2019.
One of BCLF’s most popular features is the writing competitions geared towards unearthing and encouraging the distinctive voice and story of the Caribbean-descended writer and expanding the creative writing landscape of Caribbean literature. The two are the BCLF Caribbean-American Writers’ Prize and BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean. Patrice Grell Yursik and Akhim Alexis won the awards in 2021 while Yveka Pierre and Alexia Tolas took the honours in 2022. The 2023 winners were Jade Leatham and Ethan Knowles.
The longlists for 2024 were announced on July 31 before the shortlists were made public on Wednesday, August 14. The winners for this year are;
BCLF Caribbean-American Writers’ Prize 2024
Jury: Lauren F Sharma, Desmond Hall, Wandeka Gayle
A prize exclusively for emergent writers in the Caribbean diaspora in North America.
- The Trouble with the Dog, Stefan Bindley-Taylor (TT)
BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean 2024
Jury: Cleyvis Natera, Jeanne Mara, Richard Georges
An award exclusively open to Caribbean writers of all levels who reside and work in the Caribbean.
- Picking Crabs in Negril, Diana McCaulay (Jamaica)
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