Caribbean Tales

LiteratureAlive is a multi-faceted multimedia project showcasing Canadian-Caribbean authors through  documentaries, a radio series (for the CBC), audio books, and an interactive educational web site, LiteratureAliveOnline.ca.    

The LiteratureAlive project provides a one-stop-shopping experience for students and academics seeking information, learning tools and curricula support on Caribbean-Canadian Literature. It is a unique interactive, audio-visual experience that targets the needs of lifelong learners, high school youth, and university students.

20 Unique documentaries on Caribbean authors

Profiling Caribbean-Canadian authors from the 1960s through to the hip-hop generation, these 26 revealing and provocative documentaries explore the lives and creative processes of some of today's most brilliant writers, poets, and lyricists. In so doing, we discover the links between personal experience, ancestry, and migration; between Canada and the Caribbean; between an artist and their art.   

For Bravo! Canadian Learning Television, Book Television, OMNI, and Gayelle TV (Trinidad).

Literature Alive! was first broadcast on October 6 2005 on Bravo! Canada. 

Download Literature Alive Series Press Release and Press Kit (242 KB)

Our first series of audio books by Caribbean authors was completed in July 2006, and we're hoping to produce many more.  

To purchase your personal copies of these products please visit out e-store. 

If you would like to buy a copy that includes public performance rights, for use in your school, library, university or other institution, please download our Educational Catalogue.

Literature Alive Online is a unique website that represents a collection of high quality reference resources related to the literary works of twenty-six Caribbean-Canadian authors of English and French heritage. The collection is based on the literature of selected award-winning Caribbean-Canadian authors that represent the evolution of three generations of literary achievement.