Caribbean Writer

My name is Geoffrey Philp, and I am a writer from Jamaica. I started Geoffrey Philp’s Blog Spot to provide readers with information about my writing and the work of contemporary Caribbean and South Florida writers.

I was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and I attended Mona Primary and Jamaica College, where I studied literature under the tutelage of Dennis Scott. When I left Jamaica in 1979, I went to Miami Dade College and after graduating, I studied Caribbean, African and African-American literature with Dr. O.R. Dathorne and creative writing with Lester Goran, Evelyn Wilde Mayerson, and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Since then, I have attended workshops with Derek Walcott , Edward Albee, and Israeli playwright, Matti Meged. As a James Michener Fellow at the University of Miami, I studied poetry under Kamau Brathwaite and fiction with George Lamming. [Read more]

The mission of the Calabash International Literary Festival Trust is to transform the literary arts in the Caribbean by being the region’s best-managed producer of workshops, seminars and performances. We will achieve these goals by focusing on our audiences, managing our budget, creating a community of supporters in the media, government, business, the performing arts, philanthropic organizations and publishing, and by becoming the festival of choice for the world’s most gifted authors.

For immediate release:

PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 2 MAY, 2008: The Caribbean Review of Books (CRB), the quarterly magazine covering Caribbean books, writing, art, and culture, celebrates the fourth anniversary of its revival with its May 2008 issue.

“The May issue, at sixty pages, will be our biggest yet,” wrote editor Nicholas Laughlin at Antilles, the magazine’s weblog. “I also feel it’s one of the strongest we’ve published so far.” [Read more]

Where: Walsall Central Library - Health Theme for May 2008
When: 15th May 2008 at 4.45pm-6.00pm at Walsall Central Library, Lichfield Street

Welcome author, Stewart Kunaka, talking about his new poetry book called “Freedom is only a thought away” to the Black Reading Group:

Question and answer sessions
Book signings/more readings and poetry

We are also privileged to have Angela & Golda from Maat Natural Health Products & Services talking about Complementary Health; could they heal you and improve your health and well-being? [Read more]