Channer, Colin
About Colin Channer
Reviews
López, Camille L. Cortés. "Girl with the Golden Shoes: A Caribbean Metaphor of Identity." Caribbean Writer, vol. 31, 2017
Doumerc, Eric. “Colin Channer, Providential.” MIRANDA, vol. 13, 2016
Alonso, María Alonso. "The Caribbean." Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 41, no. 4, Dec. 2016
Garebian, Keith, and Rob Vollmar. "Providential." World Literature Today, vol. 90, no. 3-4, 2016
Graham, Milicent. “Channer Effortless, Precise in Providential.” Jamaica Gleaner, 27 Sep. 2015
Woods, Paula L. “Kingston Noir.” Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2012
Sankovitch, Nina. “Kingston Noir: Where the Sun Doesn’t Shine.” HuffPost, 30 May 2012
Smith, Dinitia. "Jamaican Writers Find It's Time to Bust Out." New York Times, 27 Jun. 2006
Interviews
Schmid Henson, Katie. “So you Wanna Win a Book Prize?” Prairie Schooner, 11 Apr. 2015
Criticism
Frederick, Rhonda D. “Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities.” Small Axe, vol. 42, 2013
Forbes, Curdella. “Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain and Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter.” Small Axe, vol. 25, 2008
Bucknor, Michael A. “Staging Seduction: Masculine Performance or the Art of Sex in Colin Channer’s Reggae Romance Waiting in Vain?” Interventions, vol. 6, no. 1, 2004
Smith, Faith. “’You Know You’re West Indian If …’: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain.” Small Axe, vol. 10, 2001
Works
Novels
Lover’s Rock (2013)
The Girl with the Golden Shoes: A Novella (2007)
Satisfy my Soul (2002)
Waiting in Vain (1998)
Short Story Collections
Passing Through (2004)
Poetry Collections
Providential (2015)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
As editor: Kingston Noir (2012)
“Monkey Man.” Kingston Noir, 2012
As editor: Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop (2006)
“How to Beat a Child the Right and Proper Way.” Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop, 2006
"Money Can't Buy Me Love." Got to Be Real – 4 Original Love Stories by Eric Jerome Dickey, Marcus Major, E. Lynn Harris and Colin Channer, 2001
“I’m Still Waiting.” Got To Be Real – Four Original Love Stories, Harris (ed.), 2000
“Black Boy, Brown Girl, Brownstone.” Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, Wideman and Preston (eds.), 1996
“The Ballad of the Sad Chanteuse.” Soulfires: Young Black Men on Love and Violence, Wideman and Preston (eds.), 1996
Audio and Audiovisual Material
“Making Jamaican Love: Colin Channer’s Waiting in Vain and Romance-ified Diaspora Identities.” YouTube, 11 Dec. 2014