Collecting new fiction, essays and poems from seventeen countries around the world, So Many Islands brings us stories about love and protest, about childhood innocence and the traumas of history, about leaving home and trying to go home again. These writers’ island homes may seem remote on the map, but there is nothing isolated about their compelling, fresh voices.
Anthology · Literature
So Many Islands
Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans
edited by Nailah Folami Imoja and Nicholas Laughlin
$100.00 TTD
About the book
Edited by Nicholas Laughlin with Nailah Folami Imoja, with an introduction by Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
Collecting new fiction, essays and poems from seventeen countries around the world, So Many Islands brings us stories about love and protest, about childhood innocence and the traumas of history, about leaving home and trying to go home again. These writers’ island homes may seem remote on the map, but there is nothing isolated about their compelling, fresh voices.
“It takes a big mind, or at least a big worldview, to write from a small space. Everything we write stands one foot on land, the other in the sea. We can’t help it: we’re from where the air is clear, so it’s almost impossible to think small.”
— Marlon James
Featuring new writing by
- Tracy Assing • Trinidad and Tobago
- Heather Barker • Barbados
- Angela Barry • Bermuda
- Cecil Browne • St Vincent and the Grenadines
- Tammi Browne-Bannister • Antigua and Barbuda
- Sabah Carrim • Mauritius
- Damon Chua • Singapore
- Marita Davies • Kiribati
- Fetuolemoana Elisara • Samoa
- Kendel Hippolyte • St Lucia
- Erato Ioannou • Cyprus
- Emma Kate Lewis • Malta
- Karlo Mila • Tonga
- Jacob Ross • Grenada
- Melanie Schwapp • Jamaica
- Mere Taito • Rotuma, Fiji
- Mikoyan Vekula • Niue
- Afterword by Sia Figiel
Linked names open the writer's profile in the Bocas Lit Fest A-Z directory.
Meet the editors
Nailah Folami Imoja
Nailah Folami Imoja is a Barbadian/British writer. A teacher by day, she has been published in numerous anthologies and is the author of 13 novellas. These include titles from her Romance Series -- Caribbean Passion. One of these short novels, Pick of the Crop, was published by Heinemann Publishing (Oxford) in 2004.
Nicholas Laughlin
Nicholas Laughlin is Programme Director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest and a member of the OCM Bocas Prize organising committee. He is editor of the arts and travel magazine Caribbean Beat and The Caribbean Review of Books. He is also co-director of the contemporary art space Alice Yard, and a writer with a particular interest in Caribbean literature and art. His book of poems The Strange Years of My Life was published in 2015.
