SOCIAL SCENE: The write stuff

Local writers rubbed elbows with New York’s Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage at the annual Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Awards ceremony hosted recently at the Grand Salle of the Tom Adams Financial Centre.
Nottage, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for her play titled Ruin, delivered the feature address at the award ceremony and urged Barbadian artistes to bare their emotions when exercising their craft.
“Emotional nakedness is what drives towards interesting writing,” she told them.
Top prize in the literary competition was shared by Austin Yearwood for his novel Bottle Dance and Kerry Andre Belgrave for his collection of poems Rearranging Inner Rooms.
Social Scene zoomed in on the cocktail reception which followed the presentation ceremony.