The 2013 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize
The Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize is an annual award which allows an emerging Caribbean writer living and working in the Anglophone Caribbean to devote time to advancing or finishing a literary work, with support from an established writer as mentor. It is sponsored by the Hollick Family Charitable Trust and the literary charitable trust […]
Paper Based: 25 Years of Bookselling Excellence
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2012 Bocas Lit fest blogger The 2012 OCM Bocas Shortlist titles (and others) in Paper Based’s display! A few days before the adrenaline high of the 2012 NGC Bocas Lit Fest was launched, I had the opportunity to sit in the lobby of the Hotel Normandie with Joan Dayal, the proprietress of […]
Judge Spotlight: Fred D’Aguiar
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2012 Bocas Lit fest blogger Greetings, Bocas enthusiasts! If you’ve been keeping abreast of current news, you’ll have noted, with delight, that the official longlist for this year’s prize was announced over the weekend. I’m guessing that many of us have now acquired a substantial, exciting reading list, comprising of some, most, […]
2011 Bocas Retrospective: Tiphanie Yanique’s “How to Escape from a Leper Colony”
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2012 Bocas Lit fest blogger One of the highlights, for me, at 2011’s Bocas, was listening to Tiphanie Yanique read from her collection of short and longer fictions, How to Escape from a Leper Colony. Winner of the Fiction arm of the OCM Bocas Prize, this gathering of stories about place and identity […]