The Department of Literatures in English at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus   will host a Creative Writing Workshop Series to be conducted by  award-winning St. Lucian poet, actor, and critic, Vladimir  Lucien, the 2016 Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Literatures in English at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. The workshops will take place on May 21 and 28 from 10.00 a.m to 1.00 p.m on each day.
Lucien is a talented young poet who brings a finely honed artistic sensibility to his probing and introspective and incisive interrogation of Caribbean experience. His writing has been published in The Caribbean Review of Books, Wasafiri, Small Axe, PN Review, BIM magazine, Washington Square Review, Caribbean Beat and other journals, as well as an anthology of Caribbean poetry and prose entitled, Beyond Sangre Grande edited by Cyril Dabydeen. He won the first prize in the poetry category of the Small Axe  Literary Prize 2013 and is the winner of the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for his debut collection Sounding Ground, published by Peepal Tree Press in May, 2014. Some of Lucien’s poems have been translated into Dutch published in the literary journal, Tortuca with forthcoming translations in Italian in El Ghibli. He is also the co-editor of the anthology, Sent Lisi: Poems and Art of St. Lucia which was published in November 2014 and the screenwriter of the documentary The Merikins which premiered at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2013.
For information on registration and other details, contact the Department of Literatures in English at liteng@uwimona.edu.jm or call 876-927-2217.

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