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The Guyana Annual Magazine 2010 issue

May 23, 2010 Features / Columnists, Guyanese Literature

– By Petamber Persaud

The twelfth consecutive issue of THE GUYANA ANNUAL magazine was launched on Labour Day, Saturday May 1, 2010, at the Theatre Guild, Kingston, Georgetown.
THE GUYANA ANNUAL, formerly known as the Chronicle Christmas Annual, was resuscitated in 1998 by Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh.
The Chronicle Christmas Annual launched in December 1915 ‘in the midst of the turbulence of the First World War, the magazine would continue, albeit in fits and starts, for at least another 75 years, with the last issue before this current number [1998] published in 1992’ (Nigel Westmaas).
Resuscitated in 1998, the magazine had undergone a number of modifications to meet the need of both the producer and consumer of good literature. The main modification was the renaming process instituted in order to give the magazine a perennial appeal.
The other modifications were the establishment of two recent prizes namely, The Martin Carter Essay Prize and The Egbert Martin Poetry Prize, specially designed to encourage writing by children under eleven years.
Other categories of competitions include providing reading material for children via the Henry Josiah Writing Story of Children and the Rajkumari Singh Writing Poetry for Children.
This 2010 issue of the magazine features interesting articles including ‘Adventure in reading’ by Godfrey Chin, ‘Ganga time’ by Roy Brummell, ‘Guyana’s Coinage’ by David Granger, ‘Photographing Guyana’ by Bobby Fernandes, ‘My First Test Cricket Match’ by Shan Razack, ‘Domestic Violence and Suicide Prevention’ by Vince Ramcharran.
Other articles deal with our food culture, music of the Amerindians, protecting your pc from current fluctuations, Guyanese in the Diaspora, 100 years of scouting in Guyana, stories from Linden, women artist, and book reviews.
Tabulated below are winners of this year’s competitions:

Open Story
First Patrick George – The Choice
Second Mala Ramharak – Rustic Innocence
Third (shared) Mala Ramharak – Entrapment Stymied
Third (shared) Shonette Austin
Honourable mention: Imam Baksh – Feeling

Open Poetry
First Patrick George – The Champion Liar
Second Patrick George – A Matter of Pigmentation
Third Tivia Collins – Beyond Clouds & Skies
Fourth (shared) Patrick George, Tivia Collins, Mohamed Yasin & Omarnauth Bissoon
Honourable mention: Pearl Lewis, Omarnauth Bissoon, Monica Thomas & Kenneth Daniels

Youth Story
First (shared) Devi P. Sarju – Life was Stolen away
First (shared) Satesh Singh – Tara’s Life
Second Ian Mekdeci – Mabura Hill
Third Keisha Jeffrey – Stranger Husband
Honourable mention: Aruna Ramratan, Alana Gonsalves, Melisa Ramdeen and Michelle Ford

Youth Poetry
First Murtland Haley – Troubling me
Second Murtland Haley – The Cold Days
Third (shared) Murtland Haley – Caleon
Third (shared) Kapil Lakra – Nobody Heard
Honourable mention: Shonette Austin & Alana Gonsalves

Henry Josiah writing Story for Children
First Sheila King – Chatty Parrot’s Message
Second Iman Baksh – The Bring-back Machine
Third Mohamed Yasin – The Golden Apples
Honourable mention – nil

Rajkumari Singh writing Poetry for Children
First Pearl Lewis – Gilbert the Guinea Bird
Second Roger Hinds – Times Change
Third nil
Honourable mention: Imam Baksh

Martin Carter Essay Prize
First Stanley Ming – Crab Hunting
Second Zehira Yesreal – Untitled
Third Lerone Peters – Welcome to Guyana
Honourable mention: Beale Hasbrouck

Egbert Martin Poetry Prize
First Stanley Ming – 63 Beach
Second (shared) Dillon Sugrim – The forest
Second (shared) Ashlyn Roos – Splashmins
Third – nil
Honourable mention: Kayla Beharry, Gabriella Safeek, Maysa Hasbrouck, Anisa Nasir, Rayshar Alli & Baele Hasbrouck

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