MARTIN BOYCE

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, I grew up in Barbados and traveled extensively as an

English teacher, having lived in Japan, Spain, Colombia, Panama and Costa Rica.

My mostly LGBTQ+ themed writing started as a form of self-therapy in 2005, and represents a potential revolution in representation as I may be the first resident Barbadian man to write openly about his experience as a member of

the LGBTQ+ community on the island, where Chapter 154, Section 9 of the Sexual Offences Act

criminalises buggery.

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My short stories have won several literary awards, including the Carolle Bourne Award for Literary Innovation.

I've been published in Tell Me Lies (Foundation Publishing, 2005); Arts Etc. NIFCA Winning Words anthologies 2011/2012, 2015/2016, 2017/2018, 2019/2020; and Stellium Magazine, and am the author of the short story collections Centipede and My Sister's Voice.

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I hope to promote empathy through my stories, as one aim of my writing is to foster compassion

by putting the reader in the mind-space of characters who may be different from themselves.

Currently residing in Barbados, I often ponder the Anthropocene and Sixth Extinction

when I am not attempting to stay grounded by writing, meditating, growing food,

and being the change I want to see in the world (cliché but true).