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One of the world’s
best literary festivals
As voted by Penguin Random House:
25 to 29 April 2018 / 5 days / Port of Spain / Over 50 Authors & Speakers
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Main Festival: 25 – 29 April 2018

Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

6Days
1Hours
56Mins
28Secs

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Featured 2018 writers

  • Tracey Baptiste

    Young adult and children's author

  • Alex Wheatle

    Multi award-winning British novelist

  • Lorna Goodison

    2018 Windham-Campbell Prize Winner, Fiction | Poet Laureate of Jamaica

  • Romesh Gunesekera

    Sri Lanka-born, British writer | Short-listed for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize

  • Eleanor Catton

    2013 Man Booker Prize Winner

  • Vahni Capildeo

    Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize | Chair of the poetry judges for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize.

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Festival Overview

Main Festival Venues

Old Fire Station and National Library (NALIS)
NALIS, Hart & Abercromby Streets, Port of Spain
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Venue Contact Number: +1(868) 623-6962/ 7278/ 9673

Our Sponsors

  • Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts
    supporting Trinidad and Tobago culture and arts
  • First Citizens
    sponsor of the national poetry slam
  • One Caribbean Limited
    main sponsor
  • Massy Foundation
    Sponsor
  • Flow
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  • Movie Towne
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  • UWI
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  • MEP
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  • House of Angostura
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  • Holiday Snacks
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  • Pinguino
    sponsor in kind
  • Nestle
  • Airports Authority
  • Volunteer Centre of Trinidad and Tobago
  • NALIS
  • CODE
    Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature partner
  • British Council
  • 2Cents
  • Commonwealth Writers
  • CAISO
  • Windham-Campbell Prizes
  • Caribbean Literary Heritage
  • International Literature Showcase
  • Peekash Press
  • Wasafiri
  • Leverhulme Trust
  • Green Screen
  • Man Booker
  • Peepal Tree Press
  • Savant
  • The Writers Union
  • North Eleven
  • Newsday
  • i95.5-FM
  • CCN-TV6
  • UWI
  • Lonsdale Saatchi _ Saatchi
  • Hott 93.5
  • Express
  • CRB
  • Caribbean Beat
  • Rituals
  • Kapok
  • L-orchidee