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| AWARD | NAME | CATEGORY | TITLE |
| ADULTS | |||
| GOLD | Kerry Belgrave | Poetry manuscript | Rearranging Inner Rooms |
| GOLD | Kerry Belgrave | Poetry manuscript | @bb.now/tekculture? a byte sized sample… |
| GOLD | Linda M. Deane | Professional Essay | Way Back- “Phyllis, Freddy, Dexter & Wow” |
| GOLD | Stephen E. Sandiford | Poetry | and Sisyphus sits |
| ADULTS | |||
| SILVER | Adrienne Callender | Non Professional Short Story | Armoured Leggings: The Cricket Bat |
| SILVER | Christopher McCollin | Non Professional Poetry manuscript | Perspectives |
| SILVER | Deanne Kennedy | Non Professional Poetry | Lost Footprints aka Sandals |
| SILVER | Edison T. Williams | Non Professional Short Story | Lessons From The Standpipe |
| SILVER | Gale E. Weithers | Non Professional Poetry | The Day Granny Cried |
| SILVER | Keisha Parris | Non Professional Short Story | The Blue BMX |
| SILVER | Linda M. Deane | Professional Essay | On This Hideout Faintly |
| SILVER | Linda M. Deane | Professional Poetry manuscript | Big Bad Rain and Other Poems in Your Ear |
| SILVER | Matthew Clarke & Alan Lynch | Published Book | Hardears- The Landship Returns |
| SILVER | Reyda Gay | Intermediate ScreenPlay | Get It Right |
| SILVER | Shakirah Bourne | Professional Short Story | This Could Be It |
| SILVER | Shakirah Bourne | Professional Unpublished manuscript | Getting Back at Jack Taylor |
| SILVER | Shanae Gill-Hinds | Non Professional Short Story | Air Pains |
| SILVER | Sharma Taylor | Non Professional Unpublished manuscript | Son-Son’s Birthday |
| SILVER | Simon Dolcy | Non Professional Short Story | The Heartman |
| JUNIORS | |||
| SILVER | Aariel Broome | Short Story | Candy Man |
| SILVER | Abayomi Marshall | Unpublished Manuscript | Nimbus 3-A Casualty of Progress |
| SILVER | Dominic Corbin | Poetry | Cricket Hero |
| SILVER | Kimya Boyce | Poetry | Faithful Fishermen |
| SILVER | Zaniyah Bovell | Poetry | Flag-Girl Coming |
| ADULTS | |||
| BRONZE | Aisha King | Published Book | Zana’s Water Woes |
| BRONZE | Alister Alexander | Non Professional Poetry | – A Place of Praise – Her Child Returns – Till Crop Over |
| BRONZE | Non Professional Poetry | Past Imperfect/Future Tense | |
| BRONZE | Charmaine J. Forde | Non Professional Poetry | A Matter of Time |
| BRONZE | Christopher McCollin | Non Professional Poetry manuscript | Beyond The Shackles |
| BRONZE | Everton Forde | Non Professional Short Story | War on Poverty |
| BRONZE | Gale E. Weithers | Non Professional Poetry | A Bedtime Rhyme-Dedicated to Little Boys |
| BRONZE | Gregory A. Fitt | Non Professional Short Story | The Arrival- A Chance Encounter With my Mortality |
| BRONZE | Irijah Alkins | Non Professional Poetry | The User’s Mind (A Predator’s Point of View) |
| BRONZE | Jeffrey Walcott | Non Professional Poetry | Thoughts of The Unborn Son |
| BRONZE | Kodi Smithwick | Non Professional Poetry | Word Sound Assignment |
| BRONZE | Kristin Watkins | Non Professional Essay | Schools and Restorative Justice |
| BRONZE | Marcia Ashby | Non Professional Poetry | Spirit of The Sea |
| BRONZE | Marsha Hunte | Non Professional Poetry | Rain Falling |
| BRONZE | Marsha Hunte | Non Professional Poetry | A Woman’s Pain |
| BRONZE | Martin Boyce | Non Professional Short Story | In The Secrets Place |
| BRONZE | Nick Whittle | Non Professional Poetry | I Pour Another Rum |
| BRONZE | Nick Whittle | Non Professional Poetry | Betwixt and Between |
| BRONZE | Olivia Burnett | Non Professional Short Story | Making The Grade |
| BRONZE | Rhonda Mayers | Non Professional Poetry | Speak |
| BRONZE | Ross Chase | Non Professional Unpublished manuscript | The Black Sheep |
| BRONZE | Stephen E. Sandiford | Non Professional Poetry | I would just like to say that… |
| BRONZE | Wendy Patrick | Non Professional Poetry | Positive |
| BRONZE | Wendy Patrick | Non Professional Poetry | A Senior Mum’s Lament |
| BRONZE | Wendy Patrick | Non Professional Poetry | Storm Clouds in Spring |
| BRONZE | Linda M.Deane | Professional Essay | Josey, Weather Permitting |
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Gloria Eastmond | Non Professional Poetry |
-Browne’s Beach Bay Street -Bloody Streets |
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| BRONZE | Alanna Wilson-Patrick | Poetry | Foreign |
| BRONZE | Avornique Wiggins | Poetry | Sunny Days |
| BRONZE | Dahlia Edey | Poetry | Imaginary Purple |
| BRONZE | Davon Forde | Poetry | Haggatt Hall…Where I Live |
| BRONZE | Delyth Morris | Poetry | Enough |
| BRONZE | Gabrielle Cumberbatch | Poetry | Red Is Terrifying |
| BRONZE | Georgina Haynes | Poetry | Within A Red World |
| BRONZE | Jaden Devonish | Short Story | Streaky & Oreo |
| BRONZE | Jayden Cummins | Poetry | Ferocious Red |
| BRONZE | Jaydon Sandiford | Poetry | Violence |
| BRONZE | Joshua Hurley | Poetry | The Red Flower |
| BRONZE | Joshua Hurley | Poetry | Sad Monday |
| BRONZE | Kera Walkes | Poetry | Looka Sugar |
| BRONZE | Kya Knight | Poetry | Two Cinquains |
| BRONZE | Kya Knight | Poetry | One Cinquain |
| BRONZE | Kya Knight | Short Story | The Day Errol Barrow’s Statue Came To Life |
| BRONZE | Kyra Holmes | Poetry | Harvey |
| BRONZE | Liam Gill | Poetry | Black |
| BRONZE | Melissa Griffith | Poetry | If Cancer Could Speak |
| BRONZE | Shaheim Leslie | Poetry | Bajan Bus Scrawl |
| BRONZE | Shaliyah Maynard | Poetry | The Misery of Black |
| BRONZE | Shamarri Codrington | Poetry | Blue Vacation |
| BRONZE | Shaquan Payne | Poetry | What Am I For? |
| BRONZE | Shaquan Payne | Poetry | The Rain |
| BRONZE | Sianna Riley | Poetry | Take Note |
| BRONZE | Tanya Carter | Poetry | The Drowning End of Red |
| BRONZE | Vandana Healey-Singh | Poetry | Barbs You Are Beautiful |
| BRONZE | Vandana Healey-Singh | Poetry | What you can do I can do bleeding |
| BRONZE | Xavier Belgrave | Poetry | Rollicking Road Tennis |

Written by: ncf_boss
labelNews todayNovember 5, 2025
labelArts & Culture - Literary Arts todayNovember 4, 2025
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