The Peepal Tree Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories

Since its beginnings 33 years ago, Peepal Tree has published around 45 collections of Caribbean short stories, reinforcing the view that the short story is the Caribbean literary form par excellence. This anthology draws from those collections, plus a few guests, focusing on work written over the past twenty-five years. This anthology is unrivalled in its range across the Anglophone Caribbean and its diasporas.

Jeremy Poynting is Peepal Tree’s founder and managing editor. In 2018 he was elected as an Honorary RSL Fellow by the Royal Society of Literature. Jacob Ross is Associate Fiction Editor at Peepal Tree Press. His crime fiction novel, The Bone Readers, won the inaugural Jhalak Prize. His literary novel, Pynter Bender, was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Regional Prize and chosen as one of the British Authors Club’s top three Best First Novels.