This is a list of Barbadian writers, including writers either from or associated with Barbados.
A
B
- Hilary Beckles (born 1955)
- Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020)
C
- Thomas Chenery (1826–1884)
- Austin Clarke (novelist) (1934–2016)
- Frank Collymore (1893–1980)
- Tony Cozier (1940–2016)
- Alissandra Cummins (born 1958)
D
- Linda M. Deane
- Geoffrey Drayton (1924–2017)
G
- Wyndham Gittens (1885–1967)
K
- Agymah Kamau
- Anthony Kellman (born 1955)
- Odimumba Kwamdela (1942–2019)
J
- Cherie Jones (born 1974)
L
- George Lamming (1927–2022)
- Charles Leslie (writer)
- Karen Lord (born 1968)
- Glenville Lovell (born 1955)
M
- Carl Moore
- Richard B. Moore (1893–1978)
P
- Esther Phillips (born 1950)
- Margaret Prescod (living)
- Samuel Jackman Prescod (1806–1871)
S
- Irene Sandiford-Garner (born 1961)
- Dorothea Smartt (born 1963)
- Andrea Stuart (born 1962)
W
- Eric D. Walrond (1898–1966)
- Clennell Wickham (1895–1938)
- Cynthia Wilson (born 1934)