Scott Leon Ting-A-Kee, an up and coming writer from Guyana, has been shortlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP) by the Bocas Literature Festi-val, the Caribbean’s only prize for emerging writers.
Of the ten writers who have been longlisted for the third and last edition of the Johnson and Amoy Achong Prize, eight are from Trinidad and Tobago, one from Guyana and one from Barbados. This award is dedicated to advancing the work of emerging Caribbean voices in the poetry genre. A total of 35 submissions were received from 8 Caribbean countries – Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Barbados, Grena-da, Bermuda, British Vir-gin Islands, the Bahamas and Guyana. As in previous years, the prize’s judging process was blind, so that the names and nationalities of the entrants were only revealed once they had made the cut.
