Journal of West Indian Literature

JWIL mourns the passing of Guyanese writer, Jan Lowe Shinebourne (1947-2026), author of four novels––Timepiece (1986); The Last English Plantation (1988); Chinese Women (2010); The Last Ship (2015)––and a book of short stories, The Godmother and Other Stories (2004). Born in Rose Hall, Berbice, Guyana, Shinebourne attended the University of Guyana as an undergraduate before m...

Article submissions in English or French are invited for a special 50th-anniversary issue of Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne on the theme of Speculative Futures in CanLit. The issue will be co-edited by John Clement Ball, Laura Moss, and Cynthia Sugars. This issue invites submissions on the myriad manifestations of the “speculative” and “future...