Well, from the 2nd March UWI hosted their Campus Literature Week in the main library. Lisa invited me to attend and I read for the first time. Talk about pressure! I was petrified. I was the third person to read and many times during the excellent readings before me, that hollow feeling carved a space in my stomach. I glanced back at the audience in the room, almost in slow motion and I thought of pretending to heave and fall sick and rush past them all, out the library and into the bathroom.
There I would do some Isometrics and build a quick sweat. In the event that someone would venture into the bathroom to check on me, they will find me with glazed-over, bloodshot eyes and drooling like a werewolf - hunched over the bathroom sink with one foot raising slightly off the floor as I wrench my stomach out.
But it just seemed like too much to go through and at some time in the future I will be faced with this fear all over again. So I thought, what better place to buss and fail than on a podium in the University of the West Indies' main library during their Campus Literature Week. At least I'll go out in style. From all reports I think it went well and I look forward to doing it again.
Reading Revolution
Escape From Silk Cotton Forest and The Chalice Project - 2 novels written by Francis Escayg and Lisa Allen-Agostini respectively for the 10-16 year old age group, is leading the charge in the Reading Revolution.
These are fantasy/fiction/sci-fi/folklore titles, written and designed to give our young people a healthy entertainment alternative, which would stimulate their creativity, engage their imaginations and allow them to create new worlds. These titles were edited by Joanne Johnson and published by Macmillan Caribbean.
With design and print support from Lonsdale/Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Ltd. we now have the Reading Revolution posters which will be distributed in libraries, schools, pizza parlours and just about everywhere we can expect to find our audience. Stay logged to this blog or you can Facebook me!
2 comments:
Way to go! Fly again man...FLY AGAIN! You're so right: It's more work when we try to get out of situations rather than just face up to them! So what if we buss???? But you didn't! Well done!
great! sorry i missed it.
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