New Talent Showcase РDanielle Boodoo-Fortun̩
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. There is something special about witnessing new talent being unearthed — but as CAISO advocate and writer Colin Robinson pointed out at this, the first of the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest New Talent Showcases, Trinidadian poet Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné isn’t as nascent a literary figure as […]
Father Figures – Colin Grant and Hannah Lowe
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. Colin Grant and Hannah Lowe have written, respectively, a memoir and a poetry collection that pivot around portraits of their fathers. In their twinned reading session on April 25th, the first post-welcome event of the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the pair read generous selections from […]
Festival Welcome – Writers vs. Politicians
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. The Festival Welcomes of each Bocas Lit Fest have been spectacularly well-attended since their inception in 2011, and this year continued (and deepened) that trend admirably: attendees were fairly spilling out of the Old Fire Station on April 25th, including a generous cross-section of our programme […]
Announcing the Burt Award for Caribbean Literature
An exciting global initiative in Young Adult literature is coming to the Caribbean. The Burt Award for Caribbean Literature was launched on April 27, 2013, at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Port of Spain. Part of a unique global literary award and readership initiative aiming to provide youth everywhere with access to books they […]