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.

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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]

Signifyin’ Guyana: Drums, a musical saw, hilarious stories, poetry, call and response moments, songs of Guyana, prayers by a Pandit, an Imam, and leaders from several Christian denominations, and of course Ol’ Higue, Backoo, and Jumbie were all part of the celebratory tributes in a home-going service for Wordsworth McAndrew yesterday evening.
It was a celebration befitting a man who embraced and informed many of all aspects of Guyanese culture.