Submit now! To a Caribbean climate justice anthology, “Writing For Our Lives”

This is an exciting project, spearheaded by The Cropper Foundation in Trinidad and supported by The Open Society Foundations.

English-speaking writers and poets based in the Caribbean are invited to contribute to an anthology in the making – “Writing For Our Lives.” The anthology will be released internationally at COP29.

Project Coordinator and Editor at Cari-Bois Environmental News Network Tyrell Gittens explains:

The opportunity to contribute to this anthology is open to emerging and established, published and unpublished, Caribbean writers across poetry, fiction, and non-fiction genres. Application deadline is 7 June, 2024, at midnight AST time (11:00 pm Jamaican time). No late entries will be accepted.

Writing for Our Lives was conceived as an anthology of stories illuminating the urgency of the climate crisis for people and communities of Caribbean states marked by their varied yet substantial vulnerabilities.

The anthology aims to platform the implications for the health, livelihoods, culture, heritage, and well-being of the many who go unseen, unheard and, ultimately, unaccounted for at international and local levels of decision-making.

Published in collaboration with the Bocas Lit Fest-run imprint Peekash Press, an initial e-book version of the anthology will be produced for an international release at the annual landmark climate conference COP29 in November 2024.

A regional launch of print and audio publications will follow in the first quarter of 2025.

Successful applicants will be announced in July 2024.

To learn more about eligibility and requirements, visit https://thecropperfoundation.org/writingforourlives/ and if you have any questions please email: writing@thecropperfoundation.org .