Jane Bryce

Jane Bryce (born 1951) is a British writer, journalist, literary and cultural critic, as well as an academic. She was born and raised in Tanzania, has lived in Italy, the UK and Nigeria, and since 1992 has been based in Barbados.

She edited the anthology Caribbean Dispatches: Inside Stories of the Caribbean (2006), and is the author of a 2007 collection of short fiction, entitled Chameleon.

Background Early years Jane Bryce was born in 1951 in Lindi, Tanzania, and grew up in Moshi. She was educated at schools in Tanzania until the age of 13, when she was sent to school in England.

She also founded the Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film, of which she was a director from 2002 to 2007, and she was Barbados curator of the Africa World Documentary Film Festival (2009–2016). She compiled the anthology Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (Macmillan UK, 2006), and is the author of the 2007 collection Chameleon and Other Stories (Peepal Tree Press). In 2023 she published Zamani: a Haunted Memoir of Tanzania (UK: Cinnamon Press).

Bryce has served as a judge for literary awards both locally and regionally, including the Guyana Prize for Literature and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

In 2017, she was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at Indiana University.

In 2022, she guest-edited an edition of the online magazine WritersMosaic (an initiative of the Royal Literary Fund) entitled "Is english we speaking: African/Caribbean dialogue", contributors to which included Billy Kahora, Colin Grant, Stewart Brown, Funso Aiyejina, Philip Nanton, Tendai Huchu, Claire Adam and Robert Taylor.