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Meet PREE’s 5 young scholarship winners!

Part of PREE’s proposal to the Prince Claus Fund was that we would use their Next Generation grant to fund five talented writers under the age of 30 to attend PREE Writing Studio (PWS) and Calabash Literary Festival immediately afterwards, all costs covered. All five had to have contributed to issues four or five of PREE and… Continue reading →

March 7, 2020March 21, 2020

Queer Coolie-tudes (2019): a REVIEW

Nalini Mohabir Note: Queer Coolie-tudes (2019) is showing at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex in Miami this Sunday, February 9 at 11 am as part of the Third Horizon Film Festival. The Caribbean in its free-ness –multi-racial, creole mixing and sexual expression— has always been open to difference. Yet for a long time, the Indo-Caribbean… Continue reading →

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020

PREE to the World!

For our first writing studio PREE is gathering together a Booker Prize winner, a Wyndham Campbell Award winner, an Oprah Magazine best of 2019 author, the 2018 winner of the BBC National Short Story Award and the 2017 winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, a winner of the Forward Prize for Poetry, and the author… Continue reading →

January 19, 2020February 29, 2020

Rollin’ Calf

Kedon Willis First came the ball o’ blue fire bright like a Sunday morning sky. Then Massi realized she couldn’t move neither of her feet. She held on to a cane stalk and pulled hard at one leg, but it held fast to the ground. Massi looked over at her house on the rise overlooking… Continue reading →

December 25, 2019December 29, 2019

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ISSUE 4

In a Free State

Editorial Note

In a Free State
Jovanté Anderson

Fiction

Cruising on Wrangler Avenue
Kaleb D'Aguilar

Starting Over
Katherine Atkinson

Birdie
Yashika Graham

The Madman of South Avenue
Diana McCaulay

Poetry

On the Puerto Rican Summer 2019 Revolution
Beatriz Llenín Figueroa

Back Words
Topher Allen

Anything But Gay
Juleus Ghunta

Cruising for a Bruising
Adam Patterson

Warrior Princess
Rhea Manley

England, 2013
Kaleb D'Aguilar

A Conversation Named for Dragons
Kwasi Shade

Karst Cruising
J.A. VIII

Rearing Gaze
Michael Rex

ART-icles

Better Spent: Gender and Energy in the Caribbean
Marsha Pearce

The National Gallery of Jamaica’s Summer Exhibition 2019: A Review
Natalie Swan Reinhart

Sublimating the Body
Laurent Bayly

Waving Gallery
Kelley-Ann Lindo

We will always run out of time if we keep trying to be what the world around us tells us who we should be
Marinna Shareef

La Belle Creole: The Shape-shifter of The Atlantic
Lisandro Suriel

Essay

Women Driving Cars
Tiffany Walton

PREE Shorts

Rollin' Calf
Kedon Willis

IN A FREE STATE

Table of Contents

ESSAY

A New Jamaican Music Mx, No Typo

An essay on gender politics in the Caribbean and how its slowly but surely changing. By Isis Semaj-Hall.… Continue reading →

December 15, 2019December 18, 2019

Women Driving Cars

Tiffany Walton Every summer that I’ve visited Jamaica for the last ten years has been a process of comparing the state of the current surroundings to how I had once remembered it. During each visit, I sub-consciously and consciously note the changes at the airport, on the drive to my community, how much the taxi… Continue reading →

November 20, 2019January 2, 2020