Short story competition opens to UWI students

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Short story competition opens to UWI students

The Gloria Lyn Foundation, in association with the Department of Literatures in English at The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Mona campus, Esirom, and Trees That Feed Foundation, is now calling for entries to the 2022 Joan McLaughlin Short...

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