Linzey C.
@westofwestindian.bsky.social
Chaotic Good | Academic Bad(die) | Water itself. Writer & Postdoc Scholar @Toronto Metropolitan University. Lighting matches & raising the dead. West of West Indian (Mawenzi House 2024).
http://westofwestindian.com
http://westofwestindian.com
Page Turners Plus: A conversation with Marcia Douglas.
Her newest work, The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, is simply magic in written form.
youtu.be/9jYT3XD66Jg?...
Her newest work, The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, is simply magic in written form.
youtu.be/9jYT3XD66Jg?...
October 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Page Turners Plus: A conversation with Marcia Douglas.
Her newest work, The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, is simply magic in written form.
youtu.be/9jYT3XD66Jg?...
Her newest work, The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, is simply magic in written form.
youtu.be/9jYT3XD66Jg?...
Survived the summer grind. I can end my social media break. PhD chapter and time at McMaster is over. New home is TMU and the Department of English. 😀
October 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Survived the summer grind. I can end my social media break. PhD chapter and time at McMaster is over. New home is TMU and the Department of English. 😀
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Read poems by John Robert Lee and Amílcar Peter Sanatan in sx salon 49. Both writers dedicate pieces to the Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist, Lorna Goodison.
smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
August 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Read poems by John Robert Lee and Amílcar Peter Sanatan in sx salon 49. Both writers dedicate pieces to the Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist, Lorna Goodison.
smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
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Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison.
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
August 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Announcing the publication of sx salon 49, an issue celebrating the work of Jamaican poet, fiction-writer, essayist, and memoirist Lorna Goodison.
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
Read more from our latest issue here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/issu...
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JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025, features two interviews.
Anita Baksh interviews Rajiv Mohabir (@rajivmohabir.bsky.social)
Ronald Cummings interviews Linzey Corridon (@westofwestindian.bsky.social)
Check out these interviews in the most recent issue of JWIL.
www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/
Anita Baksh interviews Rajiv Mohabir (@rajivmohabir.bsky.social)
Ronald Cummings interviews Linzey Corridon (@westofwestindian.bsky.social)
Check out these interviews in the most recent issue of JWIL.
www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/
July 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
JWIL Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2025, features two interviews.
Anita Baksh interviews Rajiv Mohabir (@rajivmohabir.bsky.social)
Ronald Cummings interviews Linzey Corridon (@westofwestindian.bsky.social)
Check out these interviews in the most recent issue of JWIL.
www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/
Anita Baksh interviews Rajiv Mohabir (@rajivmohabir.bsky.social)
Ronald Cummings interviews Linzey Corridon (@westofwestindian.bsky.social)
Check out these interviews in the most recent issue of JWIL.
www.jwilonline.org/current-issue/
New collab with the incomparable Ronald Cummings is out in Journal of West Indian Literature. Do take a moment to read more about the magic that went into producing my first book project.
www.jwilonline.org
www.jwilonline.org
July 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
New collab with the incomparable Ronald Cummings is out in Journal of West Indian Literature. Do take a moment to read more about the magic that went into producing my first book project.
www.jwilonline.org
www.jwilonline.org
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Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...
June 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Caribbean Metamorphosis | liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 2, Fall 2026 | Submission Deadline: September 15, 2025 | For more information, visit here: liquidblackness.com/news/liquid-...
West of West Indian is shortlisted for the 2025 Caricon Prize for Literature. If you are a believer in the project, consider casting a vote in support of the title. ☺️
awards.cari-con.org
awards.cari-con.org
June 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
West of West Indian is shortlisted for the 2025 Caricon Prize for Literature. If you are a believer in the project, consider casting a vote in support of the title. ☺️
awards.cari-con.org
awards.cari-con.org
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Where Oceans Join: Landscapes, Seascapes, Archipelagoes in Circum-Caribbean Ecologies
6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine
Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine
Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
June 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Where Oceans Join: Landscapes, Seascapes, Archipelagoes in Circum-Caribbean Ecologies
6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine
Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
6-7 May 2026, U.W.I., St. Augustine
Complete CFP details available here: conferences.sta.uwi.edu/whereoceansj...
New poems and a critical conversation in Poetry in Place. I’ll be reading from the work this weekend. If you’re in Hamilton on May 24, come through and support the official book launch!😀
May 23, 2025 at 1:03 AM
New poems and a critical conversation in Poetry in Place. I’ll be reading from the work this weekend. If you’re in Hamilton on May 24, come through and support the official book launch!😀
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excited to announce a revised, expanded version of Policing Black Lives (@fernpub.bsky.social /Duke University Press) now available for pre-order, out October 15. ft. two new chapters, a new preface & an expanded conclusion. US version now offering 30% off with author code E26MYRD.
May 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
excited to announce a revised, expanded version of Policing Black Lives (@fernpub.bsky.social /Duke University Press) now available for pre-order, out October 15. ft. two new chapters, a new preface & an expanded conclusion. US version now offering 30% off with author code E26MYRD.
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In sx salon 48, Oriana Mejías Martínez @leors.bsky.social reviews two books on migration in the Caribbean: (i) Anthea Morrison’s New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives and (ii) Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art.
May 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In sx salon 48, Oriana Mejías Martínez @leors.bsky.social reviews two books on migration in the Caribbean: (i) Anthea Morrison’s New Crossings: Caribbean Migration Narratives and (ii) Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art.
Body in North America, spirit in the Caribbean. Always coming home. Thank you @bocaslitfest.bsky.social 🥹
#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with: @westofwestindian.bsky.social, @abagoo.bsky.social, Yvonne Weekes, Anthony Joseph, and more! Full album at: facebook.com/media/set?va...
#alwayscominghome
#alwayscominghome
May 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Body in North America, spirit in the Caribbean. Always coming home. Thank you @bocaslitfest.bsky.social 🥹
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In sx salon 48, Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social reviews Oneka LaBennett’s Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond @nyupress.bsky.social.
May 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
In sx salon 48, Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social reviews Oneka LaBennett’s Global Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond @nyupress.bsky.social.
Back to regular programming in Canada. I’ll be visiting the Orangeville Public Library next weekend. 😄
Registration link below:
calendar.orangevillelibrary.ca/default/Deta...
Registration link below:
calendar.orangevillelibrary.ca/default/Deta...
May 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Back to regular programming in Canada. I’ll be visiting the Orangeville Public Library next weekend. 😄
Registration link below:
calendar.orangevillelibrary.ca/default/Deta...
Registration link below:
calendar.orangevillelibrary.ca/default/Deta...
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Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
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medium.com/clash-voices...
Red Wedding: Trinidad and Tobago After Keith Rowley
Ten years after working people brokered a marriage of convenience with Rowley and the PNM, this red wedding ended in a political bloodbath.
medium.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Terrific reaction piece on outcome of last week’s Trinidad and Tobago election result by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social
medium.com/clash-voices...
medium.com/clash-voices...
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Announcing the launch of sx salon 48. The issue includes essays by Amandla Thomas-Johnson and Stéphane Martelly, reviews by Sasha Ann Panaram, Oriana Méjías Martinez, Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon, poems by Letitia Marie Pratt, and stories by José Darío Martínez Milantchi and Alicia Valasse-Polius.
May 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Announcing the launch of sx salon 48. The issue includes essays by Amandla Thomas-Johnson and Stéphane Martelly, reviews by Sasha Ann Panaram, Oriana Méjías Martinez, Maddi Chan and Linzey Corridon, poems by Letitia Marie Pratt, and stories by José Darío Martínez Milantchi and Alicia Valasse-Polius.
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CAISO's high-octane BackChat is back, featuring an incredible lineup including Lesley-Ann Wanliss, alexispauline.bsky.social, @westofwestindian.bsky.social, abagoo.bsky.social, Angelique V. Nixon, Daniel Blaze, @dennyspeaks.bsky.social, earth, @novelniche.bsky.social, and Tamara Ali.
#bocas2025
#bocas2025
April 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
CAISO's high-octane BackChat is back, featuring an incredible lineup including Lesley-Ann Wanliss, alexispauline.bsky.social, @westofwestindian.bsky.social, abagoo.bsky.social, Angelique V. Nixon, Daniel Blaze, @dennyspeaks.bsky.social, earth, @novelniche.bsky.social, and Tamara Ali.
#bocas2025
#bocas2025
In Trinidad for a bit. Feel free to come through and say hello. 😉
April 28, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In Trinidad for a bit. Feel free to come through and say hello. 😉
If you’re at GritLit Festival today, come say hello!
April 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you’re at GritLit Festival today, come say hello!
“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
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Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
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Poetry Written in the Margins of a Visa Application
reading Linzey Corridon at the intersection of border bureaucracy and soft cultural memory
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April 24, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“It doesn’t romanticise the Caribbean, but neither does it discard it. It understands the complexity of loving a place that hasn’t always known how to hold you.”
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Shayne de-Landè on West of West Indian. 💛
substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Well, there it is. I said this would happen. Not even a "sort of" Canadian book on the Griffin shortlist. Fuck this. Don't go to a Griffin event until they change it back.
April 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Well, there it is. I said this would happen. Not even a "sort of" Canadian book on the Griffin shortlist. Fuck this. Don't go to a Griffin event until they change it back.
WoW in the wild. Folks in BIM continue to show the work nothing but love. Copies are available for purchase at Black Rock Books. 😀
April 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
WoW in the wild. Folks in BIM continue to show the work nothing but love. Copies are available for purchase at Black Rock Books. 😀
Looking forward to this conversation with you, Andre!
Birthday-month bashment continues. 🍰 🍃
April’s been splendid, but I’m also looking forward to reading from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest at an event with the poet Linzey Corridon on May 3 at the National Library. For full festival details check out @bocaslitfest.bsky.social
April’s been splendid, but I’m also looking forward to reading from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest at an event with the poet Linzey Corridon on May 3 at the National Library. For full festival details check out @bocaslitfest.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Looking forward to this conversation with you, Andre!