Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Carribean with a foreword by award-winning Canadian-resident Jamaican author Olive Senior (
Wikipedia) is a literary fiction anthology of short stories by Caribbean authors, selected from the best entries to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher Akashic Books, who are generously running a holiday advent calendar promotion.
This is the first title in a Carribean-centric joint venture between Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press, and contains selections from both new and established authors, including the 2013 prize-winning story.
Currently free until midnight December 16th directly @
the publisher's promotional blogpost (DRM-free ePub & Mobi available worldwide), and you can read more about the book and see the full list of contributing authors and their stories on its
regular catalogue page.
Description
Akashic Books and Peepal Tree Press, two of the foremost publishers of Caribbean literature, launch a joint Caribbean-focused imprint, Peekash Press, with this anthology. Consisting entirely of brand-new stories by authors living in the region (not simply authors from the region), this collection gathers the very best entries to the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, including a mix of established and up-and-coming writers from islands throughout the Caribbean.