Lit’s Be Real: Building A Lit Community Across Borders

The recordings in this library give advice and insight on key areas of the book business from a wide range of publishing professionals working at home and abroad. In addition to publishing seminars, you can also access the Write Away! workshop series, developed as a teaching resource for guiding young, beginner-level writers (12 to 18 years) towards advancing their writing.

Lit’s Be Real: Building A Lit Community Across Borders

Speakers:

Amanda Choo Quan, Chiwan Chois, Shivanee Ramlochan

Recorded:

4 November 2020

Format:

Video

Synopsis:

LIT’S BE REAL is an online series aimed at introducing Caribbean writers to industry professionals overseas. It takes the form of frank, solution-oriented discussions with editors, educators, agents, and more, hosted by Amanda Choo Quan, the 2020 winner of the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.

In episode one, we address the questions: 1. Do you have to leave the Caribbean to become a successful Caribbean writer? 2. How do you even begin to access editors, publishers, agents and the rest if they don’t live in your country? 3. As Caribbean writers, should we care about access to these folks anyway?

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