Updates from Create Caribbean

Oct 18, 2022

Free Online Writing Workshop-Crafting Short Fiction

Create Caribbean began its first free online writing workshop this month! Led by reading and writing specialist Lisa J Latouche, participants have been learning the principles of short fiction writing with short practice exercises using creative prompts! Our sessions so far have been very productive with our team of writers eager to bring their stories to life! Very soon they will begin honing their original short fiction stories applying all of the information taught and will receive feedback from their fellow writers and Ms. Latouche.

Caribbean Writers’Room Launch

Our Caribbean Writers’ Room website is complete! The website is an online platform to support emerging writers in Dominica and the wider Caribbean with resources and information on upcoming events. This site will engage writers in learning and sharing works that can bring them and their art to spaces within and beyond the region!

Have a look at our resource page to access materials and processes used in our recent retreats!

The Next Free Writing Workshop is in January!

If you missed the current workshop and would like to participate in the next one, stay tuned to our newsletter to register early! Spaces are limited to ensure a high-quality experience and to preserve opportunities for individual feedback and personalized writing advice. You can also look at the Upcoming events page on our writer’s room website to keep track of our events.

Community Partners- Summer Intensive Training Continued

In August, we launched our Summer Intensive Training for community partners where the team, led by Dr. Schuyler Esprit, learned several digital tools and skills for use in their organizations. Right now, interns have been placed with community partners and will begin working on their projects soon. They will be supporting the partners with projects of website building, social media, digitization, and other services using the software which was introduced in the SIT sessions.

As a preliminary step to the collaboration with The Chronicle, two of our graduated interns are working with us to assess the condition and take stock of the available records.

Lacil and Zebadijah working on Chronicle Newspaper records.

Dr. Schyuler Esprit as a Keynote Speaker on Diversity As Knowledge Series

On October 27th, Dr. Schuyler Esprit will be speaking on the Diversity As Knowledge Series by the Center for Research Libraries. The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries founded in 1949 to support original research and inspired teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. The Diversity as Knowledge Series explores how centering diversity, inclusivity, and equity in research libraries has implications for enriching sources for knowing, the ways of knowing, and the quality of knowledge production itself.

More info on the keynote 'The Right to Serendipity: The Unlikely Scenes of Caribbean Knowledge Production’ :

You can register for the webinar here: Register here

Thursday, 27th October 2022, 02:00 PM (EST)

This talk explores the Caribbean as a site of research and knowledge production about Caribbean people, by Caribbean people, and for Caribbean people.

In what ways do individuals and communities of the region assert their “right to research”? How does the integration of digital technologies and digital humanities methodologies facilitate the preservation and articulation of local knowledges, even in the face of economic underdevelopment, political fragility, climate vulnerability, or diminished social significance? This talk will provide examples, through the work of Create Caribbean Research Institute, of unlikely collaborations between community organizations, students, and citizen-scholars that lead to formal and vernacular outcomes, constituting an invaluable part of the historical record of the Caribbean region.

Visit their website and read more about the Series here.