{"id":243612,"date":"2020-01-27T11:21:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T15:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=243612"},"modified":"2020-01-27T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T19:04:03","slug":"dominican-wins-orlando-primer-prose-writing-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/dominican-wins-orlando-primer-prose-writing-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican wins Orlando Primer Prose writing award"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Orlando Palmer Prose Prize 2019<\/strong> for the best selected prose has been awarded to our very own Ms. Michelle Allyshia Belle<\/strong>, a Newtown-born Dominican native, for her submission: \u201cRude Awakening<\/strong>\u201d, published in Interviewing the Caribbean<\/strong> literary magazine, spring edition, 2019 in Volume 4, Issue Number 2. At present, Michelle studies Psychology in China.<\/p>\n

The Spring issue of the magazine was centered around the theme \u201cCaribbean Femininity and Masculinity: Gender Justice\u201d. Michelle\u2019s story is based on a young boy who has had to move from his home in a rural village in Dominica to town, and his vicarious experience with domestic violence in the home. It also touches on the way domestic violence is received by the larger society, and its effect.<\/p>\n

Miss Belle\u2019s love for reading, which she did avidly from a young age, spiraled into an equal love for writing. Her work mainly focuses on themes such as Caribbean living, African roots and issues unique to the black community.\u00a0 She has also won Dominica\u2019s Independence Short Story competition in 2014 and 2015, and placed third in 2013, 2017 and 2019 respectively.<\/p>\n

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Michelle hopes that this award will give her more opportunities to share her literary works with the wider public and inspire other Dominicans to put out more of their literary products. She intends to seek an even wider audience by submitting works to more international avenues, and has hope for publishing her own book some time in the future. She recently had a poem published on a platform which shares experiences and achievements of black people in China. It can be read at the following link: https:\/\/blacklivitychina.com\/2020\/01\/18\/why-the-black-nod-exists-in-china-too\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Copies of Interviewing the Caribbean magazine which features Michelle\u2019s story, Rude Awakening, may be purchased at:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.magcloud.com\/browse\/issue\/1606908?__r=619948&s=w<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Orlando Palmer Prose Prize 2019 for the best selected prose has been awarded to our very own Ms. Michelle Allyshia Belle, a Newtown-born Dominican native, for her submission: \u201cRude Awakening\u201d, published in Interviewing the Caribbean literary magazine, spring edition,…","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":243613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,77,235,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educationyouth","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-international-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDominican wins Orlando Primer Prose writing award - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/dominican-wins-orlando-primer-prose-writing-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dominican wins Orlando Primer Prose writing award - 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