Dr. Michael Bucknor is a senior lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English (DLIE) and Public Orator of the Mona Campus at The University of the West Indies (The UWI). A former head of the DLIE, he is a valuable member of the organizing team of the Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta 2019.

He graduated with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from The UWI, and then went on to complete his Master of Arts and PhD at the University of Western Ontario (Canada) on a Commonwealth Scholarship. His research interests include Caribbean/Canadian writing and he is now completing a manuscript titled, Performing Masculinities in Jamaican Popular Culture.

He has been the Chief Judge for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Una Marson Prize and the OCM BOCAS Prose Prize. He sits on the editorial board of Caribbean Quarterly, Lacayos, and Issues in Critical Investigation, and is senior editor of the Journal of West Indian Literature.

Dr. Bucknor will be reading from the works of Garfield Ellis.

Tanya Batson-Savage loves mangoes and stories and stories about mangoes. She has written for the page, stage, screen and radio (and one day she will write a story about a mango). Her love of stories grew while she was seated at her grandmother’s feet, where she developed a passion for folktales that shines through in her first collection of stories of children Pumpkin Belly and Other Stories (Blue Banyan Books/ Blue Moon Publishing). Her play Woman Tongue received 8 Actor Boy Award Nominations (2016) and her short film script ‘Endeavour’ earned the award
for Best Script in the Kingstoon Anime Festival (2013).

Her career has crisscrossed the cultural landscape including cultural policy,
teaching, cultural criticism, journalism, advertising, and publicity. She is ‘head cook and bottle-washer’ of Blue Banyan Books and its imprint Blouse and Skirt Books.

Her writing has appeared in The Caribbean Beat, Bim, The Jamaica Journal, The Caribbean Quarterly, the Skywritings Magazine, Moods of Jamaica and Pree Caribbean Lit Magazine. She is the producer of the award-winning animated short film, Agwe.

She will be honoring the memory of noted short story writer and children’s book author, Hazel Campbell, who passed away in December 2018.

Professor Mervyn Morris (OM), was appointed Jamaica’s first Poet Laureate since independence, serving from 2014-2017. He is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and West Indian Literature of The University of the West Indies, where he worked from 1966 until his retirement in 2002. In 2009 he was given Jamaica’s Order of Merit (OM) for his contribution to West Indian Literature. In 1976 the Institute of Jamaica awarded him a Silver Musgrave Medal for poetry.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1937, he was educated at Munro College, the University College of the West Indies, and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. His poetry collections include Peelin Orange; The Pond; Shadowboxing; Examination Centre; Vestiges; On Holy Week; and I been there, sort of.

He is the author of ‘Is English We Speaking’ and Other Essays; Making West Indian Literature; and Miss Lou: Louise Bennet and Jamaican Culture. He has also edited the works of other Caribbean writers.

Professor Morris will be reading from the works of V. S. Naipaul, who died in August 2018.

Curdella Forbes is a Jamaican fiction writer who lives in Maryland, USA and teaches at Howard University. Her latest novel, A Tall History of Sugar, will be published by Akashic Books  (USA) and Canongate (UK) in October 2019. It is also being translated into French for Editions Globe. Her other publications include Songs of Silence (Heinemann 2002, CXC edition 2010); Flying with Icarus, a book of fiction for children (Walker Books 2003); A Permanent Freedom (Peepal Tree Press 2008);and Ghosts  (Peepal Tree 2012). Her short fiction has appeared in journals and anthologies. She has read her work at Calabash and to audiences in the Caribbean, the UK and the USA. Curdella Forbes is also the author of  an award-winning academic book, From Nation to Diaspora: George Lamming, Samuel Selvon and the Cultural Performance of Gender (UWI Press, 2005) and numerous book chapters and essays in peer reviewed and literary journals.

It’s Raining is a short play, written by French playwright, Sophie Aguille, translated and directed by Pierre Lemaire (left), who is the Artistic Director of Jamaica Alternative Theatre and former Dean and current Assistant Director, School of Drama at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts. The play features two men (played by graduates of the School of Drama: Lemar Archer and Rajeave Mattis) attempting to converse with each other while waiting for a job-interview.

A lawyer by profession, a writer by passion, Sharma has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (2018) by the Commonwealth Foundation in the UK and is a finalist in the 2019 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize for emerging writers administered by the Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad and Tobago and Arvon in the UK. Her work has medaled in Barbados’ annual National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA) Literary Competitions and has been published in the Arts Etc NIFCA “Winning Words Anthology 2015/2016”; the anthology “Bearing Witness 1 and 2- The Best of the Jamaica Observer Arts Magazine 2000/2001”, Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, The Caribbean Writer as well as online journals.

Literature: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

10:00 Fiesta Entrée: Welcome – Rachel Mosely-Wood, Head, Department of Literatures in English, The University of the West Indies, Mona

10:05 Gloria Lyn Memorial Fund

10:30 V. S. Naipaul (Read by Mervyn Morris)

Garfield Ellis (Read by Michael Bucknor)

Hazel Campbell (Read by Tanya Batson-Savage)

Andrea Levy (Read by Celia Sykes-Webster)

11:05 Drummers

11:10 Winner of the GLMF Literary Competition

11:15 Winner of The UWI, School of Education, Mona, Talk the Poem Competition

11:20 Delroy McGregor Eddie Baugh Prize

11:25 Khadijah Chin, Winner of the Young Writer’s Prize

11:30 Sharma Taylor

11:45 Marguerite Orane

12:00 Lunch

01:00 Drummers

01:05 Open mic

01:30 Play “It’s Raining” dedicated to Aston Cooke

01:45 Children’s presentation

02:00 A-dZiko Simba Gegele

02:15 Brandon Wint

02:30 Curdella Forbes

02:45 Lorna Goodison

03:15 Alecia McKenzie

03:45 Mad Yardies

04:45 Fiesta Farewell

Two Seasons Talking Trees Literary Fiesta (www.2seasonsguesthouse.com/blog), takes place on Saturday, May 25, 2017 in Treasure Beach, from 10a.m to 5p.m. There is no cover charge for entry.

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“Where the welcome is warm and the runnings cool”

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Delroy McGregor knew he had a passion for reading from an early age. His love for writing came from his older brother who would tell him comedy skits and Duppy stories from a notebook. He knew then that he was destined to be a writer, and so he wrote whenever the opportunity presented itself. He experiments with various genres as he is of the belief that a writer does not need to be defined by a particular aesthetic. A past student of the William Knibb Memorial High, he is currently pursuing a Bachelors at The U.W.I Mona and currently resides in Kingston.

He is the winner of the National Library of Jamaica Poet Laureate of Jamaica Programme 2019, Eddie Baugh Prize.