At the end of a busy 2023, full of words, stories, and ideas, all of us at the Bocas Lit Fest send our most joyous greetings and hopes for a wonderful year ahead. We look forward to welcoming you to the 2024 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, running from 25 to 28 April, plus all our other events
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The 2023 Bocas Children’s Book Prize winner is Garnet Lawrence’s Anansi and the Fire Ants. The announcement was made on Sunday 10 December, 2023. Lawrence, a T&T playwright, poet, and screenwriter based in Barbados, will receive a US$1,000 cash prize courtesy the Wainwright Family, along with the coveted title.
The popular annual series of Tea and Readings came to a celebratory Christmas close on Saturday 2nd December with readings by six Trinidadian writers. From memoir to poetry and prizewinning fiction, Paper Based, the Caribbean specialty bookseller, offered something for almost every book-lover and seasonal gift giver. The 2020 Costa Book of the Year Award
You’re invited to the next edition of Writer to Writer, a new series of literary conversations hosted by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, on Saturday 16 December, 2023, with authors Ira Mathur (Love the Dark Days) and Celeste Mohammed (Pleasantview
Seventeen-year-old Samara Dolabaille is the first-place winner of the GCCA+ Bocas Ways of Sunlight Youth Writing Competition.
Three Caribbean books for young readers have been shortlisted for the 2023 Bocas Children’s Book Prize. The shortlistees were announced on Sunday 19 November, 2023. The US$1,000 prize, sponsored by the Wainwright Family, is dedicated to recognising noteworthy books by Caribbean authors for readers aged 7 to 12, and celebrating outstanding English-language children’s literature.
Including photos and images in your book can inspire curiosity and engagement. Our next Writers First seminar, Images Meet Words, is ideal for writers, photographers, memoirists, and journalists who, under the tutelage of designer Melanie Archer, will learn about the best ways to balance images and words on the page.
Spoken word poet Alexandra C. Stewart has been named the 2023 winner of the NGC Bocas Youth Writer Award, adding to her list of accolades. The 25-year-old was announced as the winner of the award, which recognises talented young writers from Trinidad and Tobago, at the closing event of the 2023 NGC Bocas Youth Fest,