The Caribbean Writer has announced the annual prize winners from its Volume 13 issue. Topping the list is the David Hough Literary Award, a $500 prize given to a writer of either poetry or fiction who is a resident of the Caribbean. The first annual David Hough Literary Award went to Delores McAnuff-Gauntlett, a poet from Jamaica. McAnuff-Gauntlett has been publishing her poetry in The Caribbean Writer since Volume 10, 1996.
As editor Erika J. Waters explained, "It's harder to be successful as a writer when you live in the region, and we wanted to provide a special incentive." The prize was donated by Sonja Hough, owner of Sonja's Designs, the handmade jewelry designer in Christiansted, in memory of her late husband.
The other prize winners were Garfield Ellis (Jamaica) who won The Canute A. Brodhurst Prize for fiction while Winston Farrell (Barbados) received The Daily News Prize for poetry. The Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize for first time publication in The Caribbean Writer went to James Carmichael (Barbados) and The Marguerite Cobb-McKay Prize to either a poet or fiction writer from the Virgin Islands went to Marvin E. Williams, an English professor at UVI, St. Croix campus.
