Martin Boyce

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, I grew up in Barbados (all hail Rihanna! BOW!) and have traveled extensively as an English teacher, living in Japan, Spain, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.

My primarily LGBTQ+ themed writing started as a form of self-therapy in 2005, and has won over twenty literary awards, including the Carolle Bourne Award for Literary Innovation, the Prime Minister’s Award and third place (out of sixty-four entrants) in the 25th Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition. I've been published in Tell Me Lies (Foundation Publishing, 2005); Arts Etc. NIFCA Winning Words anthologies 2011/2012; 2015/2016; 2017/2018 and 2019/2020; the Barbados National Cultural Foundation's What a Year! digital anthology and Stellium Literary Magazine(volume one, issue two, pg. 31), and am the author of the self-published short story collections Centipede and My Sister's Voice.

I currently reside in Barbados where I ponder the Anthropocene and Sixth Extinction when I am not wukking up shirtless in a light drizzle, eating conkies (with raisins) year round, writing, meditating, growing food, and being the change I want to see in the world (cliché but true).