Antiguan author Joanne C. Hillhouse's third book of fiction - Oh Gad! - is scheduled for release in 2012. Her previous books are The Boy from Willow Bend, Dancing Nude in the Moonlight.
"Hillhouse’s work gives a descriptive and poignant look at the Antiguan culture," wrote Christopher Beale in his Antigua and Barbuda Island Guide in 2008. Barbara Jacobs-Small, in Island Where Magazine, 2004, described her as "a powerful and honest voice in the genre of West Indian fiction." That same year, Brenda Lee Browne wrote in local publication Sunday Scoop, "she is a writer not afraid to hold a mirror up to her community and tell the stories."
For more on Hillhouse visit http://www.jhohadli.com (also on https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joanne-C-Hillhouse/200189793349342?created) or check out the blogger's bio at http://wadadlipen.wordpress.com, site of the Wadadli Pen writing programme for young people she started in Antigua and Barbuda in 2004.
Publications and Prizes
Books:
The Boy from Willow Bend (Hansib, 2009), Dancing Nude in the Moonlight (Macmillan, 2004), The Boy from Willow Bend (Macmillan, 2003)
Journals:
Calabash, Ma Comère, Mythium, Sea Breeze: A Journal of Contemporary Liberian Writing, The Caribbean Writer, Tongues of the Ocean, Women Writers
Prizes:
UNESCO HONOUR AWARD,MICHAEL AND MARILEE FAIRBANKS INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP TO THE BREADLOAF WRITERS CONFERENCE,
DAVID HOUGH LITERARY PRIZE FROM THE CARIBBEAN WRITER
Mercedes Coffin by Faye Kellerman, Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda (author), Stephen Mitchell (author, translator), The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, The Sugar Barrons by Matthew Parker
Favorite Books:
See blogger on books at http://wadadlipen.wordpress.com
Favorite Authors:
See blogger on books at http://wadadlipen.wordpress.com
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Listing last updated: January 15, 2012