Poetry from inside the Port of Spain prison will travel far and wide on Wednesday 26 April when local celebrities join inmates for a live Facebook-streamed event, Voices from Inside, T&T. Machel Montano, Kees Dieffenthaler, Muhammad Muwakil and Anya Ayoung Chee will be led by US writer and academic Dr. Baz Dreisinger in a series
We’re mixing the #bocas2017 human rights agenda with ole mas, one of T&T’s most cherished folk traditions. Bands of 5-10 people will parade their genius for the public and judges for special prizes and bragging rights! Registration is free, so all you need is your team, your theme and some winning spirit. To register, download and
Twelve competitors have been announced as this year’s #FCNPS2017 First Citizens National Poetry Slam finalists! They will contend for a combined winners’ row jackpot of $80,000 on April 30th at the final, which is set to close off The 2017 NGC Bocas Lit Fest in stunning style at the National Academy for Performing Arts (NAPA). Congratulations
This year, in a special tribute to preeminent intellectual CLR James, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest celebrates his works and considers his legacy in a series of events scheduled for Thursday 27 April. We’re also collaborating with the OWTU on their 80th anniversary to support their 2017 CLR James Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by
The judges for the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature have announced the winners of the three genre categories, which now form the shortlist for the overall prize. The late Trinidadian Angelo Bissessarsingh’s Virtual Glimpses into the Past/A Walk Back in Time: Snapshots of the History of Trinidad and Tobago (Queen Bishop Publishing) was
Winning titles will be published and distributed to hundreds of schools, libraries, and community organizations across the Caribbean We’re proud to announce the finalists for CODE’s 4th annual Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, which recognizes outstanding writing for young adults by Caribbean authors. Three finalists were selected from among submissions of both published books and unpublished manuscripts. The finalists are:
Twenty-five years ago Lawrence Scott’s groundbreaking Witchbroom appeared. It was his debut novel and has become a classic work of Caribbean literature. This “rare and magical” novel, as Sam Selvon described Scott’s Witchbroom, is now re-published by Papillote Press for a new generation of readers who might have otherwise been deprived of an extraordinary work
Books by nine writers, the majority under the age of forty, have been announced on the longlist for the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Now in its seventh year, the Prize recognises books in three genre categories — poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction — published by Caribbean authors
The Bocas Lit Fest, in partnership with the British Council and the Film Programme at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, is pleased to announce and invite applications for a film criticism workshop aimed at arts writers and culture journalists. What and why Running from 9 to 11 March, 2017, and based
We’ve been named among the world’s top literary festivals! Penguin Random House The Writers’ Academy has just published its choice of the best literary festivals around the world and included the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the most dynamic and prestigious annual literary festival in the region. According to Penguin Random House, the world’s largest seller
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