By: Staff Writer
October 5, 2021
The upcoming inaugural Caribbean Magazine Plus Short Story Contest is already shaping up to be a successful event. Starting this October and officially launched shortly, it will run until January 15, 2022. This short story contest will also be sponsored by our parent company, Arawak Media.
Already we have a superstar in the literary field signed up to be the lead evaluator of this year’s short story contest. None other than the talented and highly regarded and very respected Dr Nicola Hunte, lecturer in English at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus has agreed to be the lead evaluator, bringing the contest the quality assurance that it needed.
Dr Hunte is a lecturer in the Literatures in English discipline at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies. With her interest in the creative arts, she serves as the editor of POUi, Cave Hill’s journal of creative writing as well as on the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment committee for the promotion of literary arts in Barbados.
She has published in the area of literary criticism on Caribbean and African American texts in Shibboleths, an online journal of comparative theory, and the Journal of West Indian Literature (JWIL). Her critical work has also touched on popular culture, specific to Barbadian expression on and offline. Her research focus includes the critical texts of Guyanese writer/theorist Wilson Harris and speculative fiction, particularly from the Caribbean and the African cultural diaspora.
Caribbean Magazine Plus is thrilled to have Dr Hunte as the lead evaluator for the inaugural Short Story competition. There could not have had a better lead evaluator signed up.
