Congratulations! 🎊🎉🍾 Small Axe is proud to announce that sx salon Creative Editor Roque Raquel Salas Rivera for receiving the 2026 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry for his book “Algarabía - The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabiyya”!

Check out the special section of our latest issue, “Decolonial Futures: Fashioning Ecological Repair and Renewal from the Caribbean”! SX80 is available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social ; Link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/80

SX80 is now available! 🎊 This issue is available digitally through Duke University Press ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

We invite you to check out our latest blog entry, “Review of Sophie Rivera: Double Exposures,” by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado. 🔗 smallaxe.net/sxblog We would also like to remind you that we accept submissions for the blog on a rolling basis. These should be emailed to: editorial.asst@smallaxe.net

New issue coming soon! 🎉 We are proud to continue celebrating 30 years of the Small Axe Journal with our next issue, SX 80, to be published July 2026. Take a look at the table of contents, and stay tuned for its release in July! SX80 will be available online through @dukepress.bsky.social

Kiskadee Watch launched on 14 June 2026 “with the intent [...] to provide the public with the news that it needs on a daily basis and to serve as a watchdog for accountability in all parts of society.” We invite you to check it out! Link 🔗 kiskadeewatch.com

This Pride Month, we invite you to check the third iteration of our Keywords project, “Sexualities,” published in Small Axe 74 (July 2024). The complete works are available through Duke University Press; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/74

Happy Pride Month! 🎉 Over the course of three decades, Small Axe has published numerous works surrounding gender and sexuality in the Caribbean. We have compiled some examples to add to your reading list! Available through @dukepress.bsky.social ; link 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

As summer rolls around, we would like to remind you that The Small Axe Project consists of multiple platforms that accept submissions of various kinds of works. Check out this post for reference; for all submission details, visit our website 🔗smallaxe.net. We look forward to reading your work!

As summer rolls around, we would like to remind you that The Small Axe Project consists of multiple platforms that accept submissions of various kinds of works. Check out this post for reference; for all submission details, visit our website 🔗smallaxe.net. We look forward to reading your work!

Statement regarding the Indictment of Raúl Castro. Read the full statement in our blog; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/content/1405

Some stills from the lecture “Restoring the Future,” delivered by our founder and editor, David Scott. In the lecture, “Scott invites us to think of restitution not as a mere return, but as a creative movement, a foundation for plural futures”

Statement regarding U.S. Aggression against Cuba. Read the full statement in our blog; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/content/1403

SX 79 features a discussion of @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social ‘s book “The Petro-state Masquerade: Oil, Sovereignty, and Power in Trinidad and Tobago.” The essays are available through @dukepress.bsky.social; link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 !

New book forum on The Petro-state Masquerade is out in the latest issue of @smallaxeproject.bsky.social. Grateful for the careful, critical engagement with my book by my dear colleagues Brent Crosson and Chelsea Schields. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

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SX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉 All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 This issue will soon be available online through Duke University Press at read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger

Available through @dukepress.bsky.social ! read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

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New book forum on The Petro-state Masquerade is out in the latest issue of @smallaxeproject.bsky.social. Grateful for the careful, critical engagement with my book by my dear colleagues Brent Crosson and Chelsea Schields. ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

SX 79 Visualities, by Shoshanna Weinberger! The series featured in this visual essay “construct a layered psychology, resulting in works that represent intersectional identity, alienation, and otherness.” This section is available through @dukepress.bsky.social Link 🔗 smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79

The special section of our latest issue, SX 79, focuses on the life and work of Trinidadian scholar-activist Rhoda Reddock, and her powerful impact on Caribbean Feminisms. This issue is now available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social; 🔗 link: smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79

Have you checked out SX 79 yet? This issue features essays by Anasa Hicks, Elizabeth Jackson, Raul Fernandez, Max Gruber, and Jessica Adams. This issue is out in print and will soon be made available digitally through @dukepress.bsky.social !

SX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉 All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 This issue will soon be available online through Duke University Press at read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger

SX 79 IS NOW AVAILABLE! 🎉 All abstracts and author bios are available on our website, at smallaxe.net/sx/issues/79 This issue will soon be available online through Duke University Press at read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe Cover art 🖼️: “Some fruits have legs” by Shoshanna Weinberger

Happy National Poetry Month! 🎉 Over the years, our Small Axe Journal has published numerous works on Caribbean Poets/Poetry/Poetics: here are some examples to add to your reading list! All of these works are available online through @dukepress.bsky.social; read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/is...

SX blog is our digital space for brief commentary and reflection on cultural, political, and intellectual events. We accept submissions in the form of short commentary and multimedia materials. Those interested may email their work or remaining questions to: editorial.asst@smallaxe.net

Join us this Friday, April 3rd, at 12:00pm for the fourth iteration of our Keywords project, where contributors trace and explore the concept “heritage” across the region and from a range of approaches. The link 🔗: tinyurl.com/sxkeywords-H...

Join us this Friday, April 3rd, at 12:00pm for the fourth iteration of our Keywords project, where contributors trace and explore the concept “heritage” across the region and from a range of approaches. The link 🔗: tinyurl.com/sxkeywords-H...

Small Axe is a project of Caribbean criticism spread across multiple platforms. Each platform addresses a different set of Caribbean practices: visual, literary, intellectual, cultural. All information regarding our project and potential submissions can be found on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net !

Dr. Leslie R. James salutes Gordon Rohlehr whose work “refracted the soul of our Caribbean world”. In it, Dr. James reflects on Rohlehr’s enduring contributions to the study of form across Caribbean literature and history. Read “Salute to Bookman Gordon Rohlehr” here: smallaxe.net/sxsalon/disc...

30 years of Small Axe! Over the years, we have had the opportunity to collaborate with many talented artists for our journal covers: here are some examples! The rest of our covers can be found on our website, 🔗smallaxe.net, and the pieces can be accessed through @dukepress.bsky.social

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢‼️ The Small Axe Journal is getting a new section. Named “Notes, Commentary and Reflections,” this section will feature pieces that address urgent contemporary issues in the Caribbean. Submissions can be uploaded to our submissions portal on our website, 🔗 smallaxe.net

Small Axe turns 30! 🥳 For our next three issues, we are celebrating 30 years of Small Axe. Previous and upcoming issues available through Duke; link: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe Check out the table of contents for the upcoming SX79, to be published this month!