Episode 38 | To Be A Cheetah - Joanne C. Hillhouse (Antigua)

BCLF Cocoa Pod

Bio - Antiguan and Barbudan writer Joanne C. Hillhouse is a self-described #gyalfromOttosAntigua She is the founder and president of Wadadli Pen Inc. a non-profit committed to nurturing and showcasing the literary arts in Antigua and Barbuda. More at wadadlipen.wordpress.com. Joanne has authored several books of fiction including the novel Oh Gad!, novellas The Boy from Willow Bend and Dancing Nude in the Moonlight, teen/young adult novel Musical Youth, and children's picture books With Grace, Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure, The Jungle Outside, and To be a Cheetah. Her fiction has also been published in anthologies like New Daughters of Africa and the abridged German anthology Neue Töchter Afrikas, and Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean; and journals like Moko: Caribbean Arts and Letters and The Caribbean Writer, among others. She also publishes poetry and non-fiction as a freelance features writer, columnist (CREATIVE SPACE art and culture column), essayist, and content creator. Joanne is the 2023 Anthony N. Sabga Awards - Caribbean Excellence laureate. More on her and her services (as writer, editor, presenter) on jhohadli.wordpress.com

Book synopsis - Books included in this reading are Lost! A Caribbean Sea Adventure (in which an Arctic seal stranded in the Caribbean sea tries to find his way home), With Grace (a Caribbean faerie tale with a mango tree faerie), The Jungle Outside (in which Tanti and Dante literally touch grass), and To be a Cheetah (a bedtime story in which a boy dreams of running like a cheetah fast like Usain Bolt across imagined African savannas).