Join us from Monday Dec. 18 – Dec. 25 for our JWIL online residency with Pamela Mordecai (@Refracting ) who will be sharing her poetry and reflecting on her writing.
Pamela Mordecai is a poet, fiction writer, editor and publisher. She is the author of eight collections of poetry. Her most recent book, de Book of Joseph (2022) was one of the finalists for the Poetry prize for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Mordecai has also written five children’s books, and a collection of short fiction entitled Pink Icing. She is well known internationally for her children’s poems, which have been widely anthologized in the Caribbean, India, Malaysia, UK, USA, and West Africa. Mordecai’s debut novel, Red Jacket, was shortlisted for the 2015 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Award, one of Canada’s top prizes for literary fiction.
This JWIL online residency coincides with the publication of a special issue of the Journal of West Indian Literature, co-edited by Carol Bailey and Stephanie McKenzie, which celebrates Mordecai’s trailblazing work.
