Thomas MacDermot was a Jamaican poet, novelist, and editor, editing the Jamaica Times

Jamaica Times

The Jamaica Times was a literary newspaper for literature from Jamaica and the Caribbean. The author Thomas MacDermot was the editor from 1900–1920 and was an assistant before that, and the author Herbert George de Lisser was an editor for several years starting in 1889...

for over twenty years. Thomas MacDermot worked to promote Jamaican literature

Jamaican literature

Jamaican literature is internationally renowned. The island has been the home or birthplace of many important authors. One of the most important aspects of Jamaican literature is the local patois, a variation of English...

 through all of his writing, starting a weekly short story contest in the Jamaica Times

Jamaica Times

The Jamaica Times was a literary newspaper for literature from Jamaica and the Caribbean. The author Thomas MacDermot was the editor from 1900–1920 and was an assistant before that, and the author Herbert George de Lisser was an editor for several years starting in 1889...

in 1899, and starting the All Jamaica Library in 1903. The All Jamaica Library is a series of novellas and short stories written by Jamaicans about Jamaica which were reasonably priced to encourage local readers. Thomas MacDermot also published under the pseudonym Tom Redcam.

External links

• Becka’s Buckra Baby (1904)
• One Brown Girl and - a Jamaica Story (1909)
• Also in the All Jamaica Library, but not written by Thomas MacDermot, Maroon Medicine, by E. A. Dodd (listed as E. Snod)