Shame On Me: An Anatomy Of Race And Belonging by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Tessa McWatt has been shortlisted for the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, which is worth $60,000 to the winner. Tessa is the author of six novels, most recently, Higher Ed (Scribe 2015), and two books for young people. She was […]
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Tessa McWatt wins OCM Bocas Prize
Shame On Me: An Anatomy Of Race And Belonging by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Tessa McWatt has won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize, which celebrates literary work published by Caribbean authors. It was previously announced as the winner of the non-fiction category of the prize. She will receive an award of US$10,000. Tessa is the […]
Tessa McWatt wins non-fiction category of OCM Bocas Prize
Shame On Me: An Anatomy Of Race And Belonging by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Tessa McWatt has won the non-fiction category of the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize, which celebrates literary work published by Caribbean authors. It will now join the shortlist of three category winners in contention for the overall award of US$10,000. Shame On […]
Tessa McWatt nominated for the OCM Bocas Prize
Shame On Me: An Anatomy Of Race And Belonging by UEA Professor of Creative Writing Tessa McWatt has been longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize, which recognises books of poetry, fiction and literary non-fiction published by Caribbean authors. Shame On Me was published by Scribe last year. Tessa is the author of six novels, most recently, Higher Ed (Scribe 2015), and two books […]
Shame On Me
An extract from Tessa McWatt’s memoir, Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, published by Scribe in 2019 and the winner of the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize. Eight years old, I am sitting near the back of the room in the grade-three classroom of my suburban Toronto elementary school. My desk is close […]
