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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

New literary festival in Antigua

I visited Antigua briefly earlier this year. It is absolutely gorgeous and I definitely want to go back. Perhaps this is an opportunity:

From Antigua Sun (peep how they spelled Terry McMillan's name)

Celebrated authors slated for Antigua
Tuesday July 18 2006

This November, some eight of the big-names in the writing world will converge upon Antigua for the first ever Caribbean Literary Festival on 2 Nov.

Authors including Terri MacMillan, Jamaica Kincaid, Yvonne Weekes, JA George Irish Ph.D., Althea Prince, Terry Williams, Elizabeth Nunez and Marie-Elena John are expected to take part in the event.

Pamela Arthurton, manager of Carib World Travel said the event is expected to be an annual one where people regionally and internationally will have the opportunity to gather in Antigua, meet authors, publishers, editors and other professionals associated with the written world.

5 Comments:

At 6:18 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

A white editor of a women's magazine once told a friend of mine that she didn't know black women bought lingerie until she read Waiting to Exhale by Terry McDonough!

 
At 4:43 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

lol @ joyprincess, shows how little she actually knows, not much eh?

 
At 7:42 AM, Blogger Felicia Pride said...

WOW!

 
At 11:58 AM, Blogger Ananda said...

glad to have found your blog. the literary festival sounds awesome. me ... i have never been to antigua. paz, ananda

ps: thanks for all of the links to authors and sites on your blog. they are very inspiring to read ... it is helping me settle into finishing the last 5 chapters of my first novel...

 
At 1:20 PM, Blogger Felicia Pride said...

Hey Ananda--

Thanks for checking out my blog and good luck with your novel!

Felicia

 

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