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[QUOTE="Shamiso, post: 83437, member: 160"]
Barbadian literature just paid out serious cash to a guy writing about devilish fish. Brian Franklin secured the top spot at the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment competition with his fiction entry Steal the Fish from the Devil’s Cou-Cou. He walked away with ten thousand dollars and the Prime Minister’s Award for best reflecting the local culture.

Jane Bryce snagged second place and seventy-five hundred bucks for How to Find Your Way in the Air. Akim Goddard took third with Is Only We Know Where the Cane Grows Wild. Developmental scholarships went to Randicia Kellman for In the Company of Women and Kemar Doughty for The Hanging Tree to help polish their skills.

Cyndi Celeste crushed the spoken word category to pocket five thousand dollars. Mark Yearwood came in second while Lafonn Miller finished third during the live judging. Elson Gaskin hyped up the event by claiming these works create a living archive of island life that future generations can actually feel.

The Central Bank launched this funding initiative back in 1997 to keep the arts alive. They added the spoken word segment three years ago to expand the field. This cash injection supports the creative scene alongside their sponsorship of the Crop Over Festival.
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