Amanda Haynes Bio

Amanda Haynes is a Bajan-Caribbean freelance writer, cultural studies student and communications professional. She's worked in leadership roles across media, international development, and philanthropy, spanning from chief executive to creative director (copywriting). Having served on boards such as the National Cultural Foundation (Barbados) and Kingston Creative (Jamaica), she is currently focused on literary work and freelance consulting for governments, companies and social organisations. 

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Amanda's literary work was selected for the PREE Writing Studio (Fiction) and shortlisted for the Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowship in 2025. A recipient of the 2019 Cropper Foundation Caribbean Writers Residency (Fiction), she was awarded a Special Mention in the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Awards for her unpublished novella, The Ups and Downs of Dessa Darling. 

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An alumna of the University of Warwick (MA, International Cultural Policy and Management) and the University of the West Indies (BA, Literatures in English), her writing has appeared in Small Axe, PREE, Burnaway, and other publications.

 

Amanda was selected for the Organisation of American States (OAS) Scholarship in 2014/15 and was awarded the Cora Waldron Scholarship in 2008.