Essays
& Articles
Explorations of the Self," chapter in Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes, ed., Caribbean Literature in Transition. Volume II. Cambridge University Press, 2021
“The Complete Performance.” Stewart Brown, ed., All are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2000
“Writing Fiction, Writing Reality.” Mary Conde & Thorunn Lonsdale, ed., Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English. London: Mac Millan Press Ltd., 1999
Caribbean women writers : fiction in English, Authors: Mary Condé 1943-Thorunn Lonsdale 1958 New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
"Writing and Creole Language Politics: Voice and story," in Caribbean creolization : reflections on the cultural dynamics of language, literature, and identity, Authors: Kathleen M Balutansky 1954-Marie-Agnès Sourieau, Gainesville : University Press of Florida ; Barbados : Press University of the West Indies, 1998.
“Sometimes You Have to Drink Vinegar and Pretend You think is Honey.” Christine Barrow, ed., Caribbean Portraits: Essays on Gender Ideologies and Identities. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Publishers for The Centre for Gender And Development Studies, University of the West Indies, 1998.
“Orality and Writing: A Re-visitation.” Adele S. Newson and Linda Strong-Leek, ed., Winds of Change: the transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. Peter Lang Publishing, 1998.
“Introduction” to a book of short stories written by two writers from Grenada. Jean Buffong and Nellie Payne, Jump-Up-and-Kiss-Me. London: The Women’s Press, 1990
“Themes and Trends in Caribbean Writing Today.” Helen Carr, ed., From My Guy To Sci-Fi: Genre and Women’s Writing in the Postmodern World. London: Pandora, 1989
”The Writer in Residence.” Wasafiri. No 8, Spring 1988, 9-10
“Review of Leena Dhingra’s Amritvela. Artrage. Spring 1988, 9-10
About Grenada / Chapters in Books
"Explorations of the Self," chapter in Raphael Dalleo and Curdella Forbes, ed., Caribbean Literature in Transition. Volume II. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
"Cultural Expression and the Grenada Revolution," chapter in Nicole Phillip-Dowe and Angus Martin, edited, Perspectives on the Grenada Revolution, 1979-1983. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
Foreword to Wendy Grenade, ed., The Grenada Revolution: Reflections and Lessons. (Caribbean Studies Series). University Press of Mississippi, 2016.
"What happened? Grenada: A Retrospective Journey." chapter in Patsy Lewis, Gary Williams, and Peter Clegg, ed., Grenada: Revolution and Invasion. The University of the West Indies Press, 2015.
Other Essays
"Are you a Bolshevik or a Menshevik?" in Interventions 12, no. 1 (2010): 35-45, Taylor & Francis, Peer-reviewed
Grenada: Memory and Collective Responsibility. Caribbean Quarterly. Volume 41. No. 2. June 1995.
Professor Alison Donnell and Professor Antonia Mac Donald discuss Collins's work during the Conference of West Indian Literature, 2023. A special celebration at the end of the conference, organized by Caribbean Quarterly and Professors Isis Semaj-Hall and Tanya Shields, co-editors of A Festschrift for Merle Collins.