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PATRICIA GLINTON-MEICHOLAS |
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Patricia Glinton-Meicholas was the first woman to present the Sir Lynden Pindling Memorial Lecture, first winner of the Bahamas Cacique Award for Writing and recipient of a Silver Jubilee of Independence Medal for Literature. She has written numerous papers and articles on Bahamian history, art and culture and ten books, including An Evening in Guanima, original short stories based on traditional Bahamian folktale motifs, the novel A Shift in the Light and two volumes of poetry: No Vacancy in Paradise and Robin’s Song and several works of satire (Guanima Press). Her story, “The Gaulin Wife” is included in the Penguin anthology Under the Storyteller’s Spell Her poetry has appeared in such publications as “Across Borders” (Lebanon College, N.H. 2003), Poui, the literary journal of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill; Yinna, the journal of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies and in the Anthology of Caribbean Poetry, published by the Government of Guyana in support of Carifesta X. |
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Glinton-Meicholas co- founded the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies (BACUS) and has edited the first two volumes of its journal “Yinna”. Also known for her academic research and writing, Glinton-Meicholas’ monograph on Bahamian folktales is published in the Encuentros series of the IDB Cultural Centre, Washington, DC (Talkin’ Ol’ Story: A Brief Survey of the Oral Tradition of The Bahamas, No. 38, July 2000). She also produced a monograph on the African presence in The Bahamas for the 2007 African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference held in Nassau. Glinton-Meicholas co-wrote Bahamian Art 1492 to 1992 (with Huggins and Smith), the first comprehensive work on the subject. She contributed the fine arts and collecting entries for The Bahamas to the Macmillan 37-volume Dictionary of Art. Her work for television includes six historical documentaries for Bahamas National Trust’s “A Proud and Singular Heritage” series, two on the history of the Roman Catholic Church in The Bahamas and the 2009 documentary The 1942 Riots, all of which she produced, wrote and directed. |
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In 2007 she was a featured writer at the 26th West Indian Literature Conference. Among the conferences at which she has presented are the Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Resources, Research and Education in Caribbean Museums Conference; the Third African Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference (2007) and the College of The Bahamas Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Conference (2008). Also in 2008, she presented “Leadership and Change in the 21st Century: A Bahamian Perspective” in the closing plenary of the Heritage and Leadership Symposium at City Hall, London by invitation of the Mayor’s Office. |
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Patricia Glinton-Meicholas is also an educator, who spent an aggregate of 17 years at The College of The Bahamas as a lecturer and administrator. Additionally, she has spent an aggregate of twelve years as a senior administrator/editor/writer/account executive/producer with a large marketing agency, The Counsellors Ltd, two of those years as Editor-in-Chief of Bahamas News Bureau. |
