Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
Lloyd Banwo in 2023
Lloyd Banwo in 2023
BornTrinidad and Tobago
Alma materUniversity of the West Indies, BA
University of East Anglia, MA
Notable awards

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo is a Trinidadian writer. She was awarded the second prize for "Public Notice" in the 2016 Small Axe Literary Competition.[1] Her debut novel When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton) was released in 2022 and won the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.[2]

Life

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo was born in Trinidad and Tobago, where she has said she was "made into a writer",[3] and currently lives in London, England.[4]

Speaking on her childhood, she has said: "I grew up in a family where we always told stories and we were always readers. My grandfather only gave my cousins and me books for Christmas."[5] Before becoming an author, she worked several jobs involving writing, including corporate communications, advertising, as an English and literature teacher for 10 years, and also as a freelance writer for newspapers.[5]

In 2005, she graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI) with a degree in literatures in English, and a minor in history.[5] She has said, "I might not have become a writer if I hadn't gone to UWI."[6]

Following the deaths of her mother, father and grandmother between 2013 and 2015, she decided to take writing seriously as a career. Speaking on the influence of these deaths on her writing, she has said: "I've promised my dead three books. It is a pact that I've made with people who are not here anymore."[7] Her first short story was published in 2014.[5]

She has taken part in the St. James Writer's Workshop with Monique Roffey and the Cropper Foundation Residential Workshop with Funso Aiyejina and Merle Hodge,[8] and Mentoring with the Masters Workshop with Earl Lovelace in 2014, and the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop in 2016.

She received a full tuition scholarship to the University of East Anglia's creative writing master's programme in 2017, completing her studies with financial aid from GoFundMe donors and a benefactor who took interest in her work.[7] Lloyd Banwo now holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she is currently completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing.[9]

She has been featured in the "Who's Next?" segment for emerging writers at the Bocas Lit Fest and Bocas South.[8] Since 2016, she has served as consulting fiction editor for Moko magazine.[9]

Works

She had her first publication in The Caribbean Writer with "Nightwalking" and her work has appeared in other publications, including Moko Magazine, Small Axe, POUi, PREE, Callaloo and Anomaly.[citation needed]

She is one of 10 commissioned writers for the forthcoming Colonial Countryside: National Trust Houses Reimagined,[10] a child-led project exploring the colonial history of 11 National Trust properties.[11] She has recorded a reading of her work "The Shadow Man" and answered questions on her contribution to the project for The Commissioned Writer's Podcast.[12]

Her first novel, When We Were Birds, was published in February 2022 by Hamish Hamilton.[13]

She is currently working on her second novel. Speaking to The Observer, she has said: "The novel looks at a house that has been passed down through five generations of women, and the protagonist has returned home to inherit this house. She’s going to sell it off because her life is not in Trinidad anymore and then finds that she can’t for various mysterious, supernatural reasons. It tracks a relationship with a house that doesn’t want to be parted from her."[14] Addressing her work's connection to Trinidad, she has said: “I think that my sensibility for story has always been indigenous Caribbean cadence, whether how a character speaks, how a story might unfold, or the kinds of things you might find [in the plot]."[7]

Awards and recognition

In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Wasafari New Writing Prize for "Walking in Lapeyrouse".[15] In the same year, she was shortlisted for the Small Axe Literary Competition, where she received second prize for her short story "Public Notice" in 2016.[16]

When We Were Birds featured in several lists of the most-anticipated novels of 2022, including The Irish Times[17] and The New Statesman.[18] She featured in The Observer's list of the 10 best debut novelists of 2022.[14] Author Marlon James described the book as "A searing symphony of magic and loss, love and hope",[13] while Kirkus Reviews praised the novel's "unique world expansive enough to contain a ghost story, a love story, a mysterious mythology, and a thoughtful examination of how family bonds keep us firmly rooted to our pasts."[19] The novel was the overall winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.[20] It was shortlisted for the 2023 Jhalak Prize.[21]

She won the 2023 Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's award, together with Jarred McGinnis.[22]

Bibliography

Short stories

  • "Nightwalking" (The Caribbean Writer, Volume 28, 2014)
  • "Dark Eye Place" (Callaloo, Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017)[23]
  • "Public Notice" (Small Axe, Issue 53, July 2017)[24]
  • "Homegoing" (POUi: Cave Hill Journal for Creative Writing, Volume XVIII, March 2018)[25]
  • "Nothing the Forest Raises is a Monster" (Pree, April 2018)[26]
  • "Sea Change" (Anomaly, Issue 28, April 2019)[27]

Novels

  • When We Were Birds (Hamish Hamilton, 2022) ISBN 9780241502792[13]

References

  1. ^ "2016 Small Axe Literary Competition | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  2. ^ "T&T's Ayanna Lloyd Banwo wins Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature". Loop. 30 April 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  3. ^ Caliste, Gillian (23 January 2022). "Trinidadian writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo set to soar". www.guardian.co.tt. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  4. ^ "In All Its Forms: A Conversation with Ayanna Lloyd Banwo". PEN Transmissions. Interviewed by Will Forrester. 14 February 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d Souza, Janelle De (23 January 2022). "Ayanna Lloyd Banwo turns to ancestral traditions in debut novel When We Were Birds". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  6. ^ Ramlochan, Shivanee (1 March 2022). "Ayanna Lloyd Banwo: opening the door | Snapshot". Caribbean Beat Magazine. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  7. ^ a b c Gall, Tevin (19 January 2022). "Trinbagonian author releases debut novel with UK publishing house | Loop Trinidad & Tobago". Loop News. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  8. ^ a b Lloyd, Ayanna Gillian (19 January 2014). "Walking in Lapeyrouse". Wasafiri Magazine. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  9. ^ a b "About". Ayanna Lloyd Banwo. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  10. ^ "Ayanna Gillian Lloyd". Bocas Lit Fest. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  11. ^ "Colonial Countryside project". National Trust. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  12. ^ "AYANNA GILLIAN LLOYD- The Shadow Man". Spreaker. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  13. ^ a b c Banwo, Ayanna Lloyd (9 February 2023). When We Were Birds.
  14. ^ a b "Introducing our 10 best debut novelists of 2022". The Observer. 16 January 2022. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  15. ^ "2014 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize Winners | The winners and shortlisted entries". Wasafiri. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  16. ^ "2016 Small Axe Literary Competition | Small Axe Project". smallaxe.net. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  17. ^ Doyle, Martin (1 January 2022). "Books to look out for in 2022: It's going to be a bumper year". The Irish Times. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  18. ^ Robson, Leo (6 January 2022). "What to read in 2022: fiction". New Statesman. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  19. ^ "WHEN WE WERE BIRDS". Kirkus Reviews. 11 January 2022.
  20. ^ Ramdass, Rickie (1 May 2023). "First-time author wins top prize". Daily Express. Trinidad.
  21. ^ "Jhalak Prize 2023 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 20 April 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
  22. ^ "The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer's Award". British Library. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
  23. ^ Lloyd, Ayanna Gillian (2017). "Dark Eye Place". Callaloo. 40 (2): 69–76. doi:10.1353/cal.2017.0090. ISSN 1080-6512.
  24. ^ "Public Notice". read.dukeupress.edu. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  25. ^ "Poui xviii by Poui - Issuu". issuu.com. 12 March 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  26. ^ ap (18 April 2018). "Nothing the Forest Raises is a Monster". PREE. Retrieved 12 August 2022.
  27. ^ "Ayanna Gillian Lloyd – ANMLY". Retrieved 12 August 2022.

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