More Than A Literary Festival

Kevin Jared Hosein

Kevin Jared Hosein

Kevin Jared Hosein

Winner of The 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Kevin Jared Hosein is the author, most recently, of Hungry Ghosts, longlisted for the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize. He is also the winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the author of three books previous books, including The Repenters, which was longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award. He is a science teacher and lives in Trinidad and Tobago.

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Old Fire Station, NALIS

Take Two

Novelists Rabindranath Maharaj (The Amazing Absorbing Boy, Fatboy Fall Down) and Kevin Jared Hosein (Hungry Ghosts) discuss their fictional explorations of Trinidad’s past and present, secrets and ambitions, in conversation with Camille Hernández-Ramdwar.

Novelists Rabindranath Maharaj (The Amazing Absorbing Boy, Fatboy Fall Down) and Kevin Jared Hosein (Hungry Ghosts) discuss their fictional explorations of Trinidad’s past and present, secrets and ambitions, in conversation with Camille Hernández-Ramdwar.

10:00 am - 12:00 pm
1st Floor Seminar Room, NALIS

Genre fiction 101, with Kevin Jared Hosein

A special interactive writing workshop for teens! Are you a lover of fantasy, speculative fiction, or horror? A secret or not so secret writer of fan fiction? And ready to take your writing to the next level? The winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction offers practical tips and exercises to help you expand your writing imagination.

Registration via schools.

A special interactive writing workshop for teens! Are you a lover of fantasy, speculative fiction, or horror? A secret or not so secret writer of fan fiction? And ready to take your writing to the next level? The winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction offers practical tips and exercises to help you expand your writing imagination.

Registration via schools.

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