If you can't attend... check out their books ;^) It's hard to find a lot of contemporary Caribbean women writers... so it's important to support those who are being published....

At Home In The World: An Evening With Caribbean Women Writers, June 10, 2008, Washington DC

The Institute for Caribbean Studies and the National Museum of Women in the Arts will host authors Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Elizabeth Nuñez, and Katia Ulysse on Tuesday, June 10, 2008, 7-9 pm, as part of the month-long celebration of Caribbean-American Heritage
Month. The writers will read from and discuss their works.

The event takes place in the museums auditorium at 1250 New York Ave., NW, Washington, DC.

Jamaican-born Margaret Cezair-Thompson is the author of two novels, The True History of Paradise (Dutton-Plume 1999) and The Pirates Daughter (Unbridled Books 2007).

Other publications include short fiction, essays, and articles in Callaloo, theWashington Post, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Graham House Review, and Elle. Her screenplay, Photo Finish, about a Jamaican-American athlete, was sold to Oprah Winfreys Harpo Productions.
She teaches literature and creative writing at Wellesley College and currently resides in Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Nuñez emigrated from Trinidad after completing high school there. She received her Ph.D. in English from New York University and is CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College. Nunez is the award-winning author of six novels: Prospero's Daughter; Grace; Discretion; Bruised Hibiscus; Beyond the Limbo Silence; and When Rocks Dance. Prosperos Daughter, her most recent novel, was a March 2006 Editors Choice in the New York Times Book Review. Bruised Hibiscus won a 2001 American Book Award, Discretion was short-listed for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and Beyond the Limbo Silence won the 1999 Independent Publishers Book Award.

Nunez is co-editor with Jennifer Sparrow of the
anthology Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad.

Haitian-born writer Katia Ulysse received a Master of Arts in Education from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland. Her works of fiction have appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Caribbean Writer, Poui, Calabash, Peregrine, Phoebe, and Margin.
Essays and other works have appeared in Mozayik;
Macomere; Brassage; as well as in The Butterflys Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora, edited by Edwidge Danticat. Katia teaches English to speakers of other languages in Maryland where she lives with her husband and their three-year old daughter.

Select books will be available for purchase.

The event is free, but reservations are recommended.
Call 202-783-7370 or email reservations@nmwa.org.

What's up with this AVATAR?

It's from a collection of his photos shot in Nigeria: http://www.pieterhugo.com/nigeria/index.html

He's a South African photographer. Check out his other work as well: http://www.pieterhugo.com

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Originally posted by FireFly:
It's from a collection of his photos shot in Nigeria: http://www.pieterhugo.com/nigeria/index.html

He's a South African photographer. Check out his other work as well: http://www.pieterhugo.com

His work is interesting... and I've been looking for a pictoral example of the European judicial wigs that are still warn in Africa for a while now(to show a friend how crazy it looks)... without success, until now!


The Honourable Justice Julia Sakardie-Mensah

glad to help out