The Price of Birdsong: Brokopondo, Suriname, 2009

New!

From: This Rare Earth

$1.60

In this chapter, Gilmer describes his experiences with a tense confrontation with three armed illegal miners at a dam site in Brokopondo, Suriname.

View

Contributors

Jeremy Thomas Gilmer

Jeremy Thomas Gilmer is a writer of short fiction and nonfiction. He has been longlisted for the CBC Canada Writes Short Story Prize, won the inaugural Short Story Day Africa Flash Fiction Prize, and was selected as the writer-in-residence at the KiRA residency in 2018. Gilmer grew up in Nigeria, Northern Ireland, and Canada, and has lived and worked in over forty countries. He lives in Saint John, New Brunswick.