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