Amanda Haynes Bio

Amanda Haynes is a Bajan freelance writer and creative professional with leadership experience across cultural policy, media, international development, and philanthropy.

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She was selected for the PREE Writing Studio (Fiction) and shortlisted for the Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowship. She is a recipient of the Cropper Foundation Caribbean Writers Residency (Fiction) and received a Special Mention in the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award for her unpublished novella The Ups and Downs of Dessa Darling. 

 

A graduate of the University of Warwick (MA) and the University of the West Indies (BA), her writing appears in Small Axe, PREE and Burnaway, among others.

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