Fiction as Warning- Storytelling, Precarity & The Caribbean with Roland Watson- Grant

Welcome to Wandering Through Wisdom! This episode's guest is Jamaican writer Roland Watson- Grant, a recipient of the Musgrave Award for Literature and the 2021 regional winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.In this episode, we speak about fiction as warning- the role and responsibility of the Caribbean storyteller in the face of the region’s continued vulnerabilities.In particular, we focus on his short story Mark Yourself Safe, which takes us inside the mind of a homeless man while Jamaica braced for Hurricane Melissa in October 2025. What does disaster look like for the most vulnerable? What does it mean to give a voice to the most marginalised? And what significance do stories carry in the wake of disaster?You can read 'Mark Yourself Safe' here: https://preelit.com/2025/12/19/mark-yourself-safe/