This is a list of Barbadian writers, including writers either from or associated with Barbados.

A

• Adisa Andwele

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)