Just shy of a year since announcing the Call for Submissions, we’ll be launching Writing For Our Lives: A Caribbean climate justice anthology, dedicated to the Foundation’s beloved friend, the late Professor Emeritus Funso Aiyejina, on Saturday 3 May, 2025.

The hybrid event takes place on the third day of the Bocas Lit Fest at the iconic Old Fire Station in Port of Spain at 3:30PM, and will be livestreamed via the Bocas Lit Fest Youtube and Facebook pages.

Through their powerful stories, poems and essays, 18 established and emerging writers from eight Caribbean territories are bringing the climate crisis into sharp focus through the voices of those most affected yet least heard — the people and communities of the Caribbean.

Published by the TT-based imprint Peekash Press, and co-edited by Diana McCaulay and Shivanee Ramlochan, the Writing For Our Lives anthology is part of the ongoing Today Today, Congotay! arts for climate justice project implemented by The Cropper Foundation with funding support from Open Society Foundations.

Read the press release

Learn about the project