Merle Collins
Poet and Fiction Writer
Lady in a Boat: artwork by Grenada artist Susan Mains
Creative writer. Published novels, short stories, essays. The setting is often the Caribbean island of Grenada. Interest in Theatre and Performance. In 2008, founded , in the Washington Metropolitan area, a community organization, Carivision Community Theatre, Inc. (Carivision).
Mark your calendars and join me at the Miami Book Fair November 17-24!
I’m so excited to be a part of Miami Book Fair’s week-long celebration of authors and literature! The fair will be packed with author conversations, meet-and-greets, and of course the incredible street fair! 🎉
Join us Saturday, November 23, at 2 pm for “Caribbean Narratives: History, Heroes, and Healing” : Merle Collins, Geoffrey Philp, and Diannely Antigua🌊📖 #CaribbeanStories #ReadCaribbean #MBF2024 @miamibookfair
Caribbean Narratives: https://www.miamibookfair.com/event/caribbean-narratives-history-heroes-healing-panel/
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Merle Collins UK book tour - October 2024
Merle Collins is visiting the UK this October to support the one-year anniversary of her book, Ocean Stirrings: A Work of Fiction in Tribute to Louise Langdon Norton Little, Working Mother and Activist, Mother of Malcolm X and Seven Siblings. Merle will be starting off in Leeds, before visiting London and Leicester.
October 2024
Leeds
Wednesday 9th Leeds The Social, Merrion Street - 5.30-8pm
Women Friendly Leeds presents Sisterhood of Stories. Reading.
London
Thursday 10th London UOL, Senate House - 3-5pm
Ocean Stirrings: History, the Sea, and Creative Murmurings in the story of Louise Little, Mother of Malcolm X.
Join Professors Merle Collins and Stewart Brown for a reading and fireside chat about books, writing, research and history. This event is presented by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of London's School of Advanced Study and the publisher Peepal Tree Press.
Bookings and more information
Monday 14th London UCL, IAS Common Ground (Room G11) on the ground floor of UCL's South Wing - 5.00pm-6.30pm
Elsa Goveia Public Lecture: Caribbean Journeys and Colonial Legacies: A Reading of Ocean Stirrings.
In partnership with UCL’s Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery and UCL Institute of the Americas.
Bookings and more information
Leicester
Tuesday 15th Leicester Leicester Central Library, Bishop Street, Leicester LE1 6AA - 7pm
Join us for an evening of fascinating conversation with Grenadian author and poet, Merle Collins, talking about her life and work. Her latest book, Ocean Stirrings, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction. This is a rare visit to these shores, so make sure you don’t miss it! Bookings and more information
CARIBBEAN QUARTERLY : A JOURNAL OF CARIBBEAN CULTURE.VOLUME 69, NO.2 , 2023
COMMEMORATION AND COMMUNITY: A FESTSCHRIFT FOR MERLE COLLINS. Editor Kim Robinson-Walcott presents a special issue edited by
Tanya L. Shields and Isis Semaj-Hall. With articles, artwork, and essays by Maureen St. Clair/ Alison Donnell, Antonia MacDonald and Shalini Puri/ April Shemak and Chenelle Heard/Gia Harewood/Belinda Deneen Wallace and Laurie R. Lambert/Francis Urias Peters/Isis Semaj-Hall.
Introduction by Tanya Shields. Afterword by Merle Collins
Caribbean Quarterly is the flagship journal of the University of the West Indies. See www.uwipress.com
Final paragraph, page 211: The DC organization named should be the Grenada Women’s Organization. The sentence should read : “In a recent conversation, she recalls being a founding member of the Grenada Women’s Organization in DC during those graduate school years.”
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