This season of ‘The Women Who Write Our Stories’ kicks off in Jamaica with Sharma Taylor. Hear how she handles confronting vulnerabilities and uncomfortable conversations, all while navigating the complexities of being a multifaceted woman in the Caribbean space. Her passion for her writing inspires even non-writers to get up and go after the discovery of their true selves. Plus, listen to see what brands can takeaway about being honest and transparent with their clients and audiences. 

About our guest

Sharma Taylor, a Jamaican writer and lawyer, was awarded the 2023 Institute of Jamaica’s Musgrave Bronze Medal for contribution to Literature; and the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus) appointed her its Writer-in-Residence for semester II, 2024. Her work has won the 2020 Wasafiri Queen Mary New Writing Prize, the 2020 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award, and the 2019 Bocas Lit Fest’s Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize. She has been shortlisted four times for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. 

She has also judged on numerous prestigious writing panels, and her debut novel “What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You” was published in 2022.

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