Artist Bio
Martin Boyce was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in
Barbados. He has been writing since 2005 and has won several
literary awards, including the Carolle Bourne Award for Literary
Innovation. His writing has 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 he is the author of the short story collections Centi-
pede and My Sister's Voice.
His writing aims to advance societal inclusion, help fight
stigmatisation and improve Barbadian gender and sexual minority
(GSM) representation 🏳️🌈 by addressing the absence of their voices
in literature, promoting empathy, as one role of fiction is to
foster understanding through compassion by putting the reader
in the mind-space of characters who may be different from
themselves. Setting aside GSM themes 🌈, he hopes to engage and
entertain readers from a myriad of backgrounds: a good story is
a good story.
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