Martin Boyce

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 Arts Etc. NIFCA Winning Words Anthologies and Stellium Magazine and he is the author of the short story collections Centipede 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.