(This story won first prize in the prose section of the Inaugural Walter Rodney Foundation Creative Writing Competition. Subraj Singh, a University of Guyana student and budding writer, says the story’s setting is intentionally ambiguous. “It can be set in Guyana’s past, present, or future,” Singh told the audience at an award ceremony on May 14, 2014 in the Education Lecture Theatre, University of Guyana, … Continue reading Rebelle – A Story by Subraj Singh

For the man who works with hands. (The poem won first prize in the inaugural Walter Rodney Foundation Creative Writing Competition. I dedicated the first reading to Minister of Culture Dr. Frank Anthony, the girls at NOC who were allegedly raped by a senior government official, the 15-year-old boy was shot by a police man and Harding, the youth, who was baton raped by police.) … Continue reading Without You

In the company of very few, I delivered the following address at the Award Ceremony of the Inaugural Walter Rodney Foundation Creative Writing Competition. Minister of Culture Frank Anthony sat alongside UG’s Dr. Mark Tumbridge in an otherwise empty front row . Guyana Prize winner Ruel Johnson sat with two or three others in the back row. And when the words left my mouth, they … Continue reading Break Your Silence – Speech Delivered at the Award Ceremony of the Inaugural Walter Rodney Foundation Creative Writing Competition