Robert's address

Robert Edison Sandiford speaking at the launch of 'Redemption in Indigo', 6 August 2010.

Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of two short story collections, 'Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall' (1995) and 'The Tree of Youth' (2005); the graphic novels 'Attractive Forces' (1997), 'Stray Moonbeams' (2002) and 'Great Moves' (2010); a travel memoir, 'Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle' (2003); and edited with Linda M. Deane 'Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology' (2007).  He is a founding editor of 'ArtsEtc: The Premier Cultural Guide to Barbados', and has worked as a journalist, book publisher, video producer with Warm Water Productions, and teacher. He has won awards for both his writing and editing, including Barbados' Governor General's Award of Excellence in Literary Arts and the Harold Hoyte Award, and been shortlisted for the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award. He divides his time between Canada and Barbados.

More about Robert at: http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=980&L=S&N=Robert%20Edis...

Barbadian writers and works mentioned in this address:

Thomas Armstrong, 'Of Water and Rock' (DC Books, 2010)
Nicole Blades, 'Earth's Waters' (DC Books, 2006)
Austin Clarke, 'More' (Thomas Allen, 2008)
Alvin Cummins, 'The Royal Palms Are Dying' (Caribbean Chapters, 2008)
Nailah Folami Imoja, 'Pic Of The Crop' (Heinemann, 2004)
Margaret Knight, 'Ginger Lily' (Macmillan Caribbean, 2004)
Glenville Lovell, 'Love and Death in Brooklyn' (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004)
Arnold F. Ward, 'Knock and Wait' (Foundation Publishing, 2003; first published in 1991).

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