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You are cordially invited to the following event organised as part of the Caribbean Seminar Series of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and the Institute for the study of the Americas: 12th October, 5.30-7.30 Venue: Macmillan Hall, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU Caribbean Creative Writing Speakers: Amanda Smyth and Monique Roffey Chair: Vahni Capildeo, author of No Traveller Returns and One Scattered Skeleton and Contributing Editor at the Caribbean Review of Books. Trinidadian-born writers Amanda Smyth and Monique Roffey will speak about and read from their recent novels, Black Rock (Serpent’s Tail, 2010) and The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (Simon & Schuster, 2009). Amanda Smyth is Irish/Trinidadian. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2000. Her short stories have been published in New Writing, London Magazine and broadcast on Radio 4 as part of a series called Love and Loss. She was awarded an Arts Council Grant for Black Rock, her first novel. For more on the author and her work see: http://thescribblerblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/waterstones-new-voices-2009-interview-three-amanda-smyth/ Monique Roffey was born in Trinidad and is based in London. She has published two novels and a memoir and is editor of an anthology of short stories The Global Village (Peepal Tree, 2009). Her second novel, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle (2010) was shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2010. Her work has been hailed as ‘a major contribution to the New Wave of Caribbean writing…[breaking] entirely new ground’ (Olive Senior). For more on the author and her work see: http://www.moniqueroffey.co.uk/about-me/