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The first International Conference of Caribbean Women’s Literature (organized in 1988 by Selwyn Cudjoe, Wellesley College) drew attention to the need for an organization devoted expressly to Caribbean women’s writing. This was reinforced at subsequent international conferences on Caribbean women’s literature in 1990 (organized by Helen Pyne-Timothy at University of the West Indies-St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago) and in 1992 (organized by Jocelyn Clemencia, University of the Netherland Antilles, Curaçao). In 1994, the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (ACWWS) came into being as a result of the collective efforts of Founding President Helen Pyne-Timothy, and Founding Members Brenda Berrian, Carole Boyce Davies, Jacqueline Brice-Finch, Adele Newson, and Tanya Saunders. The founding members of the ACWWS sought to establish a space that would promote dialogue between scholars and writers. In order to facilitate the establishment of a network of scholars, teachers, artists and cultural workers who do work on women in the Caribbean, MaComère, the journal of the ACWWS, was created with Jacqueline Brice Finch as its first editor. The objectives of the ACWWS include the recognition and dissemination of the literature and orature of Caribbean women; the promotion of scholarship on Caribbean women’s writings, art, and cultural production in general; the creation of a forum for the advancement of the critical study and teaching of the works of Caribbean women writers and scholars; and the fostering of a climate of partnership and cooperation between all linguistic and cultural groups of the Caribbean region. Since 1996, ACWWS conferences have been convened biennially.
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