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Mud Psalms and the Power of Guyanese Stories | Guyana News
Makeda Braithwaite just claimed third place in the Guyana Prize for Literature for her bold, personal collection Mud Psalms—her second shot at the spotlight after last year’s finalist run. Blending Guyanese folklore, family lore, and speculative fiction, her work pulses with the chaos of growing up and the magic of power-out blackout stories told by her parents. Teaching literature at the University of Guyana, she keeps writing separate from her day job—but it’s clearly her heartbeat. She writes for anyone willing to read, weaving her own twenties and her parents’ childhoods into poems that…
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