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In 1999, the local chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. created the Children’s Reading Festival (CRF) whose purpose was to encourage parents to foster a love of reading in their children at a young age. 20 years later, the festival has become ...

Nobel Prize-winning author and academic Toni Morrison was a “mesmerising” speaker 30 years after she visited the island to help mark the 150th anniversary of the Bermuda National Library. Ruth Thomas, a former government cultural affairs officer, sai...

Kim Roberts didn’t set out to write a book. The 49-year-old only joined local author Latisha Washington’s online course because she wanted to try “something different” before she hit the big five-0. However within four weeks she’d written a novel, Sh...

Bermudian author Elizabeth J Jones releases her debut novel next week – at the age of 69. A Dark Iris, partly inspired by the writer’s time as a teacher at the Berkeley Institute in the 1970s and partly by her art class with Sharon Wilson, will be la...

The English-Speaking Union has launched a competition in honour of a historian, author and former Editor of The Royal Gazette. The competition is named after William Sears Zuill, who died aged 86 in 2016, and was also the first director of the Bermud...

A second round of awards to honour Bermuda’s women writers are to be handed out next month. Dale Butler, a former Progressive Labour Party MP, government minister and author, has organised the presentation of more Crystal Butterfly Literary Awards on...

BET puts her on a shortlist of today’s greatest poets; Shanelle Gabriel would probably argue she is just good at conversation. Poetry lovers here can decide for themselves this week. The Bermuda College Literary Society has brought her here to perfor...

A former resident has turned her love of the island’s history into her debut novel on the early days of Bermuda’s settlement. Tempest: Bermuda 1609, by Sue Wright, charts the perilous journey of English people to relieve the beleaguered and starving ...

Sometimes, I stumble into the inner world of a complete stranger by accident, a person who brings new and lyrical sounds to the deeply hidden strings of my soul. They respond in a melodious and gentle manner, like wind chimes which, with a slight br...

V.S. Naipaul, our phenomenal West Indian son, has resigned leaving behind a substantial space in our society, which we can only hope would one day be filled again. The passages detailing his passing have been marked with sadness on all sides of the d...

Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, who died on Saturday, aged 85, was “a giant”, the island’s West Indian Association has said. Naipaul, whose books such as Miguel Street and A House for Mr Biswas are required reading in his homelan...

Mandy-Suzanne Wong thought the e-mail claiming someone wanted to publish her novel was a hoax. She’d sent copies of Drafts of a Suicide Note to at least 100 publishing companies — not one was interested, but then Regal House weighed in. “I stopped co...