Many untold stories are held in the kinks of afro hair.

Winner of a Go Fund Me award, this fantasy-poem unravels the history of natural hairstyles and encourages children to love all of who they are.

Downloadable activity sheets and resources for parents and teachers.

Sofia loves to use her imagination. Now it’s your turn! Fun and colourful activities to keep children relaxed and entertained.

Autobiographical poems on identity.

Moving structurally from London to Jamaica, the collection traces the writer’s search for belonging and grapples with cultural eclecticism.

Peppered with condensed micro-poems, the work includes Jessica’s Aesthetica award shortlisted piece ‘reclamation’ and celebrates the diaspora as a space where new identities are forged and creativity emerges.

Children’s Alphabet Book.

Set for release on 1st October 2020, this picture book illustrated by celebrated Jamaican artist, Scion Derby configures the alphabet in the midst of Jamaican life.

A Collection of Illustrated Micropoems on Self-Love.

By assembling vignettes and snapshots of thought, the work traces the physical and emotional journeys to self-acceptance, through healing from loss and a fragmenting relationship.

The work is divided into three parts: ‘sleep’ deals with bereavement, ‘wake’ kindles hope and ‘daydream’ reflects.  The omnipresent Caribbean becomes a main character forming the technicolour backdrop of fiery, new love and a catalyst in the protagonist's coming to consciousness.

#TBB10 Author Jessica Wilson on the inspiration for her children’s picture-book.

Jamaica is not all blue skies and palm trees.

One of my favourite Jamaican sayings, “see me and come live with me”, means to know someone on face value and to know them intimately are two different things. The same can be said for the island.

Article on the importance of children seeing themselves in literature.