Caribbean Voices | Team Shaw Caribbean Press

The Caribbean has a story shelf, and we are filling it.

Caribbean Voices is the part of Team Shaw Caribbean Press that names what we are doing out loud. We publish authors from across the region and the diaspora. Georgetown, Port of Spain, Kingston, Bridgetown, Castries, Havana, Santo Domingo, and the second-generation writers in London, Brooklyn, Toronto, and Miami who carry the islands inside them. We publish memoir, professional nonfiction, and executive ghostwriting because those are the formats where Caribbean stories most often go untold. The literary novel has a path. The compliance officer's memoir, the central banker's reflection, the family history that explains how a generation got from rural Berbice to the boardroom in London, those formats have no Caribbean publisher of scale. We are building one. Caribbean Voices is also a promise about how we treat the authors we sign. International production standards. Author ownership of ISBN, royalties, and account control. The same hybrid-publishing floor that the Independent Book Publishers Association expects of any press that calls itself legitimate. We do not lower the bar because the book is Caribbean. We raise the bar because the book is Caribbean.

Authors and the places they come from

Phase 3 buildout. A visual map of TSCP authors keyed to their home countries and cities will live here. Each pin will link to the author's profile page. For now, the roster is small (one author, Theon Alleyne, based in Georgetown, Guyana) and a full map is premature. As authors sign, the map fills.

On screen

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What we are looking for

We publish four kinds of books, and the door is wider than most authors expect. Family memoir, written by a person who carries a story their family has been telling for generations and who wants it set down before it is lost. The cane-field grandmother. The Indian Arrival ancestor. The first generation that left for England and the second that came back. Those books are not niche. They are how a culture remembers itself.

Professional memoir, written by a working Caribbean professional who has spent twenty or thirty years inside a field and who has something to say to the next generation that will inherit it. Compliance officers, central bankers, surgeons, judges, agronomists, school principals. The textbook does not capture what the room actually feels like. The memoir does.

Regional nonfiction, written by a Caribbean expert on a Caribbean subject. The political history nobody outside the region understands well enough to write. The industry analysis that requires field experience the international consultancies do not have. The cultural study that needs an insider's ear.

Executive ghostwriting, for senior executives across the region who have a book inside them and the schedule of a person who runs a bank. We do that work quietly, professionally, and on a contract structure that protects both the executive's voice and the executive's time. The Shaw Authority Package is built for this and is described on the Packages page.

If you are writing one of those four books, or thinking about it, we want to read your sample chapter.

Short pieces by Caribbean writers

Phase 3 mini-magazine. TSCP will publish occasional shorter pieces, between 1,500 and 4,000 words, by Caribbean writers. Personal essay, profile, professional reflection, regional reporting that does not fit a news cycle. Submissions for the short-piece program open in late 2026. Watch this space.

Have a manuscript?

If you have a draft, an outline, or a clear idea of the book you want to write, we want to see your sample chapter and your idea on one page. The submissions form takes about twenty minutes. Read the manuscript guidelines first.

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