Over 500 people voted in our 2021 Caribbean Readers’ Awards, and we are excited to announce the winners!

The Caribbean Readers’ Award recognizes outstanding works in Caribbean Literature, as chosen by readers across the world. The prize is given to one fiction novel, nonfiction works, short stories, and poetry.

BEST NOVEL (ADULT)

Winner: Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed

Shortlist

A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark

Dream Country by Ashaye Brown

Friendship Estate by Lynda R. Edwards

Fortune by Amanda Smyth

How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

Josephine Against the Sea by Shakirah Bourne

Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge

No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed

This One Sky Day by Leone Ross

What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J.A. Chancy
 

POETRY COLLECTION

Winner: Pandemic Poems by Olive Senior

Shortlist
Habitus by Radna Fabias

Pandemic Poems by Olive Senior

Running With Daffodils by Samantha R.S.

Sky Juice by Natalie Corthésy

The ABCs of Paradise Found by Karen Amanda

Thinking with Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant

What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey

BEST TRANSLATED WORK

Winner: Habitus by Radna Fabias

BEST NON-FICTION (BOOK)

Winner: Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller

Shortlist
Lost Stitches by Daniel Melville

The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller

BEST RWL MAGAZINE PIECE

Winner: Bomber And The Breadfruit Tree

Shortlist
Bomber And The Breadfruit Tree

Ole Jezebel By Karolyn Smith

The Soliloquy Of A Thousand Slaps By Solare

Thank you to everyone who voted and showed their support for their favourite author and works written this year. We look forward to making it even better as we traverse 2022, until then…

Stay Lit!