WADADLI YOUTH PEN PRIZE

2017 and 2020 Wadadli Pen winners with the Best of Book sponsored Alstyne Allen Memorial plaque which bears the name of all previous main prize winners.

As the Wadadli Pen Challenge 2023 submission period winds down (per submission guidelines, deadline is May 31st 2023), our team continues to work behind the scenes. One of the things we're working on is attracting gifts which we will promptly re-gift to whomever the judges select as the Wadadli Pen 2023 Challenge finalists. We're reaching out to past and prospective patrons, and you can reach out to us as well if you wish to support Wadadli Pen's mission to nurture and showcase the literary arts in Antigua and Barbuda via wadadlipen@gmail.com 

Wadadli Pen Inc. can so far confirm commitments from the following new and/or returning patrons

-Pam Arthurton (a longtime Wadadli Pen patron)

-The Best of Books Bookstore (which has been a patron since 2004 and has been hosting our awards since 2012; they, also, sponsor the Alstyne Allen Memorial plaque which bears the name of all the winners and contribute books)

-The Cushion Club (which remains committed to sponsoring the prize for the 12 and younger writers in memory of late Cushion Clubber and Wadadli Pen finalist Zuri Holder)

-Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné (an award winning Trinidad and Tobago artist and writer who has history with Wadadli Pen as both a patron and judge)

-KN Consulting (which has pledged gift packages to winners in the 18+/adult and 12 and younger age categories)

-Joy Lawrence (a past patron and volunteer who will be contributing two copies of her new book The People’s Point: An Antiguan Waterfront Community)

-Papillote Press (the Dominica/UK publisher giving as it has in the past copies of its teen/YA titles: The Art of White Roses, Gone to Drift, Abraham’s Treasure, and Home Home)

-Ten Pages Bookstore (a local, online bookstore which returns with gifts once again for booklovers)

-Juneth Webson (the US based Antiguan regularly contributes gifts and cash to Wadadli Pen and will do so again)

Shout out also to:

-Media partners for hosting or boosting Wadadli Pen (especially Antiguanice.com which hosts a page on their platform, Observer Media Group which hosted team members for a re-launch on Voice of the People, and We the People which hosted team members on its  People on the Corner and The Review programmes)

-Wadadli Pen team members (Joanne C. Hillhouse-books and scholarships to her Jhohadli Writing Project workshops and Floree Williams-Whyte whose Moondancer Books has once again sponsored online advertising)

We also want to express thanks to the following for their financial contribution toward advancing our goals as a non-profit:

-Barbara Arrindell (Wadadli Pen team member)

-Daryl George (winningest past Wadadli Pen patron)

You too can contribute to Wadadli Pen Inc. Just contact us at wadadlipen@gmail.com