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Carinya Sharples

@carinya.sharples

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writer | PhD student | creative writing facilitator | she/her 🇬🇧🇬🇾

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Oh hello @bhamlitfest 👋 Managed to catch some daytime events & run a lovely writing workshop, with fab participants from all over the world on writing place & ourselves. Wonderful to catch up with @deepa.anappara Rachel Long @shanedwards27 @profcorinnefowler & meet @courttia Kavita Bhanot @carinya.sharples & my excellent workshop participants ✍️ Love of storytelling & books is most definitely alive in Birmingham! Thank you @writingwestmids — and I’m looking forward to speaking at Readers’ Day on Saturday, Oct 24!
#litfest #authorlife #amreading #amwriting #authorsofinstagram taken in Birmingham, United Kingdom by @carinya.sharples

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The call for papers for our 12th annual postgraduate conference is now live! The link to the full CfP can be found in our bio.

The Postgraduate Conference will be taking place on 15-16 April 2027 online. Postgraduate students at all stages of their degree and across all disciplines are welcome to apply.

Please share widely! by @carinya.sharples

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Very grateful to the @societyforcaribbeanstudies
for awarding me the David Nicholls Memorial Prize for my postgraduate paper 'Cook-up Not Melting Pot: Reading Mixedness in Guyanese Literature Through Food', plus the £200 book voucher, which I think I put to good use buying plenty Guyanese books 📚 🇬🇾 by @carinya.sharples

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Red Hibiscus author Scott Ting-a-Kee (@scotttingakee) sharing readings on Mami Wata and more last Tuesday, with the rain fittingly lashing outside Moray House, on Camp and Quamina Streets (@morayhousetrust) 📚 ☔ 🇬🇾 by @carinya.sharples

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A historic evening on Wednesday 18 June! Celebrating the graduates of the FIRST Wapichan course at the University of Guyana. Courses in all of Guyana's nine Amerindian languages, and in Creolese, to come. Amazing work by the Guyanese Languages Unit at UG including coordinator Dr Tamirand Nnena De Lisser and former coordinator Charlene Wilkinson 👏🏽

The teacher of the Wapichan course, Dr Adrian Gomes

Guest speaker Dr Kofi Dalrymple, a graduate of the Creolese course at UG by @carinya.sharples

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Been off Insta for while to avoid scrolling but thought I'd share some images from the last few weeks... last night at Guerilla Bar in GT 🇬🇾 for Pride Month 🌈 screenings, poetry and music in solidarity with (queer) people in Palestine. #noprideingenocide by @carinya.sharples

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The Dalit Panthers, family rejection, and having two cultures with "iconic flavours"... Lots to take away from this back copy of Burnt Roti from December 2020, published in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder and amid the Black Lives Matter protests.

This week, I've also had a number of people send me an article from The Voice newspaper by Celeste Mohammed on growing up "Dougla" in Trinidad, 'Too Black to be Indian. Too Indian to be Black'. While I'd push back against the idea of what she calls a "mixed-race curse", I recognise so much of what she shares, from my own and others' experiences, especially that exhausting hypervigilence of 'always reading rooms to figure out which half of me was welcome.'

I'm glad that stories of other mixes that do not involve whiteness are coming into the mainstream in the UK and adding new layers, perspectives and colours to the conversation, without shying away from persisting anti-Blackness. We need to keep sharing our stories, and unpacking the political in the personal ❤🙌🏾 by @carinya.sharples

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So proud of my talented sister friend @eliciajmckenzie for her exhibition Art In Racing at Department Store in Brixton, sharing the amazing focus, drive and talent of two rising stars in motor racing, Reuben Stanislaus and Lewis Appiagyei. They remind me of my no.1 champion of the track (and 13-year-old nephew) @daniel__karting... the next generation! But racing is an expensive sport and they need our support to reach the top. Organised by @officialdisruptspace #DisruptTheGrid by @carinya.sharples

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Tea stained wood, humans as plants, protest banners, painstaking pen work... Fascinating free exhibition of ecologically conscious work by artists living in or connected to South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. "The Land Sings Back" at @drawingroomlondon till 14 December # 🌎🌱🌺 by @carinya.sharples

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It was an honour to be commissioned to research and write the Guyana chapter of the latest Lonely Planet South America guidebook. Despite the long hours and stress to get everything right and fit the tight constraints and word counts, it is exciting to share just some of Guyana's treasures. Massive thanks to everyone who helped along the way and put up with my endless questions and requests for info ❤🇬🇾 by @carinya.sharples

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Fascinating and unsettling (free) exhibition of Donald Locke's paintings, sculptures, photographs and even poetry at the @ikongallery in Birmingham. With plenty of Guyanese references to spot for the eagle-eyed visitor. Worth a visit if you're in town, it's due to travel to Camden in London next 🙌🏾 by @carinya.sharples

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Flashback to a few carnival moments... starting with the fitting words of Guyanese poet Grace Nicholls (displayed here by the Paraíso samba bateria): "I have crossed an ocean, I have just my tongue / From the root of the old one, a new one has sprung".

Notting Hill Carnival is not carnival in Trinidad, Grenada, Barbados or Brazil. It was planted on London soil. It may not be what it once was, or what it was intended to be, but it is a vital and powerful community space. Nothing compares to parading or walking tall along streets where usually you feel small.

No amount of bad press, negative vibes and lack of support will stop that. Long live Notting Hill Carnival on the streets of London! 💛🖤❤🤍💚 by @carinya.sharples

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