Barbara Jenkins
Barbara Jenkins | |
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San Fernando, Trinidad | |
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Children | 3 |
Awards | Guyana Prize for Caribbean Literature |
Barbara Jenkins is a Trinidadian writer, whose work since 2010 has won several international prizes, including the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize.
Biography
Barbara Jenkins was born in
Her short stories have been published in journals including
Her work won several international prizes: the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region) in 2010 (for "Something from Nothing") and 2011 (for "Head Not Made for Hat Alone"),[8] the Wasafiri New Writing Prize; the Canute Brodhurst Prize for short fiction from The Caribbean Writer; the Small Axe short story competition[9] in 2011; the Romance Category, My African Diaspora Short Story Contest; and the inaugural Caribbean Communications Network (CCN) Prize for a film review of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, 2012.[1]
In 2013 she won the inaugural
Her debut collection of short stories, Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories, was published in 2013 by
Jenkins was in 2015 the inaugural British Council International Writer in Residence at the Small Wonder Short Story Festival at Charleston in East Sussex.[11][15]
An excerpt from her then novel-in-progress, De Rightest Place, appeared in
Selected bibliography
- Sic Transit Wagon and other stories, Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1845232146
- De Rightest Place (novel), Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1845234225
- The Stranger Who Was Myself (memoir), Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2022. ISBN 9781845235345
Awards
- 2010 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for "Something from Nothing"
- 2011 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, for "Head Not Made for Hat Alone"
- 2013 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize
- 2014 Guyana Prize for Caribbean Literature, for Sic Transit Wagon and Other Stories
- 2014 Bloody Scotland-Bocas Lit Fest Crime Writing Prize
- Canute Brodhurst Prize for short fiction
- Small Axeshort story competition
- Romance Category, My African Diaspora Short Story Contest
References
- ^ a b "Barbara Jenkins" at Peepal Tree Press.
- ^ a b c Jonathan Ali, "The Accidental Writer", St. Augustine News (STAN), 2012.
- ^ Zahra Gordon, "Jenkins fills a void through writing", Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 26 April 2013.
- ^ "Question and Answer with Barbara Jenkins", Charleston, 2015.
- ^ Charlene Cambridge, "The accidental writer", sx salon 20, November 2015.
- ^ a b "Trinidad and Tobago Awardees: Commonwealth Writers Prize | Barbara Jenkins", Key Note Speakers, 36th West Indian Literature Conference, University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
- Trinidad Express, 6 April 2019.
- ^ "Barbara Jenkins", biography at Inpress.
- ^ Roxanne Mannette, "Trini women dominate Small Axe competition" Archived 12 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 26 November 2016.
- ^ "The Emerging Caribbean Writers Prize" Archived 2017-05-17 at the Wayback Machine, NGC Bocas Lit Fest.
- ^ a b Nicholas Laughlin, "Finding buried truths", The Caribbean Review of Books, 24 October 2015.
- ^ Tanya Batson-Savage, "Edward Baugh, Barbara Jenkins and Harold Bascom Win Guyana Caribbean Prize for Literature", Susumba, 8 December 2015.
- ^ "Guyana Prize for Literature", Guyana Chronicle, 1 December 2015.
- ^ "Crime pays for writer Barbara Jenkins", Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 18 September 2014.
- ^ "Barbara Jenkins at Small Wonder Festival", British Council, Caribbean, 13 April 2017.
- ^ "Flood", The Caribbean Review of Books, October 2015.
- ^ Erin Britton, "De Rightest Place by Barbara Jenkins" (review), Nudge, 3 August 2018.
- ^ Katie Mansfield (1 May 2019). "Winn and Pearce Make RSL Christopher Bland Prize Shortlist". The Bookseller.
- ^ "De Rightest Place shortlisted for 2019 RSL Christopher Bland Prize", Wha'ppen?, Peepal Tree Press, 1 May 2019.