Book Business
JOHNNY TEMPLE
The founder and publisher of Akashic Books demystifies the path to publication and discusses what editors, agents, and readers are looking for.
University of the West Indies, Mona, May 26-29, 2026, Kingston, Jamaica
JOHNNY TEMPLE
The founder and publisher of Akashic Books demystifies the path to publication and discusses what editors, agents, and readers are looking for.
JOSEPH EARL THOMAS
This creative nonfiction workshop will consider how a sentence might live in one world and change its mind midway as a function of the author’s thought and style.
OLIVE SENIOR
Through writing exercises, reading samples, sharing work, and robust conversation, we will look at the traditional elements of storytelling and how they work together to pull the reader in.
MARLON JAMES
This is what you will be doing in this workshop: writing Fiction as a response to Fiction. The dismissed voice, the monster with a soul, the character without agency, the character everybody but you forgot.
GAIUTRA BAHADUR
In this craft studio, we’ll read together short excerpts from writing that puts objects to work. And you’ll produce a piece of creative nonfiction in which you write through an object.




