Dr. Lisa Outar

Caribbean literary scholar. Co-Editor in Chief, Journal of West Indian Literature. Guyana/New York/Rome

[Dr. Lisa Outar @LisaOutar]

4/4 Thanks to the Windham-Campbell Prizes team for a nourishing few days of reflecting on craft and on the importance of our human need to tell stories and connect to each other.

[Dr. Lisa Outar @LisaOutar]

1/4 Big up to the Windham-Campbell Prizes team for an excellent 2026 lit festival at Yale celebrating an inspiring array of writers. Particularly happy to see the Caribbean’s own Kei Miller’s immense talent (across multiple genres) be recognized.

[Dr. Lisa Outar @LisaOutar]

3/4 American playwright Christina Anderson was so dynamic in bringing her characters to vivid life in her reflections on adapting for the stage Zora Neale Hurston’s text Barracoon (based on Hurston’s interviews with the last living survivor of the transatlantic slave trade.)

[Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest]

@LisaOutar accepts the 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award, given to @jwilonline, on behalf of all its present, past, and founding editors.

"Journal work is collective work", says Outar, thanking the many designers, artists, scholars, peer reviewers who have given so much to JWIL.

[Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest]

@LisaOutar, Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of West Indian Literature, and past Editor-in-Chief Evelyn O’Callaghan in conversation with Ronald Cummings
#bocas2025 #alwayscominghome
@jwilonline

[Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest]

Two highly anticipated new novels by past winners of the OCM Bocas Prize! Set centuries apart, and epic in both scope & ambition, @olivesenior’s Paradise Once and Celeste Mohammed’s Ever Since We Small will make their world debuts at #bocas2025! With @LisaOutar #alwayscominghome

[Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest]

The #bocas2025 festival programme is unfurling in real time! 👀 😃 🥳

Nicholas Laughlin, Festival and Programme Director, is treating us to some of our visiting writers' names: @olivesenior, @dmccaulay, @a_pirmohamed, @jallenpaisant, @John_Orpheus, @YomiSode will all be here!

[Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest]

📣It's what you've been waiting for! 📖The Bocas Lit Fest, T&T’s annual festival of books & writers, presents 4 days of extraordinary programming!👉Click the link, save the dates, and share with readers & writers of all ages: https://t.co/OaasbJ8In8
#bocas2025

[Dr. Lisa Outar @LisaOutar]

4/4 I thank the @bocaslitfest team for this recognition of our work, which is wind at our backs as we herald our fortieth year of life as a regional publication, continually championing the writers and thinking that honor both our complex past and our ever-unfolding futures.

[Dr. Lisa Outar @LisaOutar]

1/4 I joined JWIL @jwilonline in 2015 - ten years ago! It was just after I had decided to leave my full-time teaching position at St. John’s University in NY. That was a complex and hard decision to leave behind my institutional affiliation.

[Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest]

Announcing: The 2025 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters goes to The Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline in recognition of its role as the most significant scholarly journal dedicated to the field of Caribbean literature.

#bocas2025

[Dr. Lisa Outar @LisaOutar]

3/4 My JWIL work over the past decade is a source of intellectual enrichment, community building & deep friendship as each issue builds on the labor, commitment & generosity of our editors, our reviewers, our contributors, our production team, our featured artists & our readers.

[Dept. Literatures in English, UWI Mona @LitsEngMona]

Our HOD, Dr Lisa Tomlinson, will be giving the keynote at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts' 16th Gender and Development Lecture! On Thursday, Feb 27, join us at the Vera Moody Concert Hall for "50-50: The Re/presentation of Gender in the Arts."

[Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest]

📣Caribbean writers! Submit your scripts for the 29th International Audio Drama Competition 🎧🌍 hosted by BBC World Service and the British Council.
🗓 Deadline: 4 June 2025
🔗https://t.co/Hf1o0CdElI
@BritishArts @BritishCouncil @bbcworldservice

[Jarvis C. McInnis @ProfMcInnis]

Exciting news! My book is available for PRE-ORDER! You can receive 30% off when you order directly from @ColumbiaUP using the discount code CUP30 (link below). Official release date is May 13, 2025. For now, check out the cover and blurbs from scholars I deeply respect & admire!

[Leighan @LeighanRenaud]

The Bristol Caribbean Studies Studio is excited to announce our next event: A Celebration of Caribbean Women Writers, with Merle Collins, Shannon T. Smith, and Indira Toussaint!
Join us on March 27th for an evening of literature and conversation
https://t.co/FzmgrVh4ui?

[Department of GPE @GPEConcordia]

Also excited that we will hear about Alison Donnell's latest book, in the context of a chapter related to Montreal. March 5th 1:15 pm
https://t.co/DyMRWHrTPG

[The Caribbean Translation Project @CaribTranslate]

Runner up for the Vondel Translation Prize

David McKay for a translation of Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname

@politybooks

[Dr. Lisa Outar @LisaOutar]

As we say farewell to Velma Pollard, we celebrate decades of Caribbean teaching & community building. Pollard, Michael Dash & Victor Chang are all now gone, but their literary & educational legacies continue to bear fruit in new generations of Caribbean scholarship & creativity.

[Journal of West Indian Literature @jwilonline]

Contributor: Velma Pollard

A photograph of Michael Dash and Victor Chang with me in 1988. They were great friends. They gave me the title O.T. (Old Teacher) because I had taught them both in high school: Chang at Kingston College, Jamaica, Dash at St. Georges College, Trinidad.