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Meet Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, a rising star of UK writing, National Centre for Writing, June 2024

Nick Bradley and Ayanna Lloyd Banwo are among the 10 writers selected for the ILX 10 list, The Bookseller, June, 2024

Banwo wins the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2023 for ‘radiant’ debut, The Bookseller, September, 2023

Before Columbus Foundation Award Winners Named, Kirkus Reviews, August, 2023

Banwo, Zevin and Kukafka shortlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, The Bookseller, July, 2023

Zevin, Kukafka, Reid and more longlisted for Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award, The Bookseller, June 2023

Lloyd Banwo wins The Author's Club Best First Novel Award, The Bookseller, May 2023

McAuley, Swift and Banwo shortlisted for The Kitschies, The Bookseller, May, 2023

2023 Jhalak Prize Shortlists, Locus Magazine, April 2023

T&T’s Ayanna Lloyd Banwo wins Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Loop, April 2023

The shortlist of Bocas Lit Fest's 2022 literary prize are all works from Trinidad & Tobago writers, Global Voices, April 2023

Celebrated and debut authors vie for 2023 OCM Bocas Prize, Newsday, March 2023

Lloyd Banwo, Berry and Cahill make Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award shortlist, The Bookseller, March 2023

Joseph, Patel and Coelho longlisted for 2023 Jhalak Prizes, The Bookseller, March 2023

Anie, Knapp and Lloyd Banwo make Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award longlist, The Bookseller, February 2023

These are The Economist’s best books of 2022, The Economist, December 2022

Lloyd Banwo and McGinnis named winners of the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award, The Bookseller, November 2022

The best fiction of 2022: Ayanna Lloyd Banwo’s When We Were Birds – an exquisite exploration of love and legacy, The Conversation, November 2022

Six writers shortlisted for £20k Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award, The Bookseller, October 2022

Falling in Love Is Hard When You’re the Guardian of the Dead, Electric Lit, April, 2022

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo: opening the door | Snapshot, Caribbean Beat, March/April 2022

Best books 2022: The novels our Books Editor predicts you'll love this year, Woman & Home, 30 Jan 2022

24 Best Romance Novels of All Time to Get You in the Mood, Good Housekeeping, 24, Jan 2022

Ayanna Lloyd Banwo turns to ancestral traditions in debut novel When We Were Birds, Newsday, 23 Jan, 2022

Trinidadian writer Ayanna Lloyd Banwo set to soar, Trinidad Guardian, Jan 23 2002

Trinbagonian author releases debut novel with UK publishing house, Loop, Jan 19 2022

The Penguin Podcast meets the 5 of the biggest debuts novelists of 2022, Penguin.co.uk, Jan 12 2022

Introducing our 10 best debut novelists of 2022, The Observer, UK, Jan 16, 2022

The 20 Best and Most-Anticipated Books of 2022, Good Housekeeping, Jan 2022

Books to look out for in 2022: It’s going to be a bumper year, The Irish Times, Jan 1 2022

What to read in 2022: fiction, The New Statesman, UK, Jan 6 2022

The Bocas Book Bulletin 2022, the year in preview, Trinidad Express, Jan, 2022

The Gatekeepers brings book deal for Trini writer Lloyd, December, 2020

Colonising literature in reverse, Newsday, December, 2020

Hamish Hamilton scoops Lloyd's mythic Trinidad-set debut, July, 2020

A Very Good Year – Trinidad Guardian, January, 2017

Trini Women Dominate Small Axe Competition – Trinidad Guardian, November 2016

Writers at the Bocas Lit Fest – Newsday, May 2015

Bocas feeds pride in Caribbean Lit – Trinidad Guardian, May 2014

20 Shades of a Crayon- Profile – A Big Box of Crayons, March 2014