John Wickham

John Wickham (1923–1999) winner of the BBC World Service Competition of 1967, with his story Meeting at Milk Market was a meteorologist, literary editor, short-story writer and journalist. After a career in the World Meteorological Organisation Wickham followed in the footsteps of his celebrated father, journalist Clennell Wickham, and became literary editor of the Nation newspaper in Barbados. He served for many years as the editor of Bim, and his short stories have been widely anthologised. He is the co-editor of The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories. Among his published collections are Casuarina Row (1974) and Discoveries (1993).

SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE STATE OF THEATRE IN THE CARIBBEAN

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When I was asked to speak, my first reaction was, naturally enough, intense pleasure and gratification, that I had been asked to talk to such knowledgeable and concerned dramatists as you, and then having accepted the invitation, very quickly, lest Ken thought twice and withdrew it,

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