Calabash has become the festival of choice for some of the world's most gifted authors. 2005 launched "The Calabash Chapbook Series", which, to date, includes six books of poems from workshop members. Of these, Ishion Hutchinson, was accepted into NYU's creative writing master's program. In July 2006, Akashic Books published the fiction anthology "Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica's Calabash Writer's Workshop" from the original workshop. Channer edited the volume, as well as contributing the short story "How to Beat a Child the Right and Proper Way".