Barbados Beyond The Beach: A Showcase of Barbadian Authors

Date: Saturday 4th July 

Doors Open: 6.30pm

Afrori Books is excited to be hosting Andie Davis, Claudia Clarke, and Cherie Jones – authors of a Barbadian new wave, with work that celebrates, interrogates, challenges, and satirises Barbadian culture and the world beyond.

Claudia Clarke - Claudia Clarke is an avid reader who has made good on a childhood promise to herself to write a book. CircleSquare, her debut collection of short stories published in 2023, won a Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award. An attorney-at-law, Claudia is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s (UK) New Writers’ Scheme. She is currently working on a collection of short stories about Barbadian women in midlife.

Andie Davies - Born in Montserrat, Andie Davis grew up in Barbados and later moved with her family to the United States. Her debut novel, LET ME LIBERATE YOU, was published in 2024 by Little A. Her short stories have been published in The Caribbean Writer, Delmarva Review, and other publications, while her essays have appeared in Ghana Web and Business Daily Africa. She has been awarded a 2026 Hedgebrook residency. 

Cherie Jones - Cherie Jones is a Barbadian novelist and short story writer whose short fiction credits include Reflex Fiction, The Feminist Wire, PANK, Eclectica, and BBC Radio 4. She is a former fellowship awardee of the Vermont Studio Centre and the International Writers Programme of the University of Iowa. Her first novel HOW THE ONE-ARMED SISTER SWEEPS HER HOUSE was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2021, the OCM BOCAS Prize in 2022 and the Internationel Literaturpreis Prize in 2023 and was translated into French and German. The French translation of her novel won the Prix Carbet des lycéens 2023.