Looking at the 2015 Bocas Shortlist: Sounding Ground
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2015 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger “Now, you concoct your own geography: to roads that should have shrivelled into primitive paths of red dirt, that should’ve stained your shoes, led you to the squat satisfaction of some zinc-roofed hut. You should’ve felt the loneliness of all the night’s windowsills, the fleeting interest […]
Looking at the Bocas 2015 Longlist: The Merchant of Feathers
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2015 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger “As I walk through a bazaar on the beach where vendors sell fruits, fried fish, fragrant oils, calabashes, hemp dresses, natural juices, a woman walks out of the waves: “I must read your palms, O woman of magic.” She pulls me down into the sand, sits […]
Five Caribbean poets shortlisted for Hollick Arvon Prize
Poets from three Caribbean countries in the running for region’s leading emerging writers’ award The judges for the 2015 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize have announced a shortlist of five, chosen from among the ten previously longlisted writers. The leading Caribbean award for emerging writers will be awarded this year in the field of poetry. […]
Call for creative work by students
Call for submissions of students’ work inspired by Caribbean literature Send us your best work for an exhibition to be mounted at the National Library during the NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2015 The exhibition will display original, creative work by young people aged 12 – 18 inspired by their readings of the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature […]
The Spoken Word Intercol Champion
At last week’s exciting finals of the Courts Bocas Secondary Schools Spoken Word Intercol competition, Michael Logie of St. Augustine Secondary School, had to pull out all the stops to beat his rivals for the top prize. The 18-year old’s poem, The Birds, The Trees and I, wowed the judges with its rhyme, up-to-the minute […]
Three regional writers vie for the 2015 Burt Award
The leading Caribbean literary award for young adult literature, CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, will go to one of three shortlisted writers from Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The writers are in the running for valuable cash prizes and a publishing deal with a Caribbean publisher that will see 7,500 copies of their […]
2015 Verses Bocas Poetry Slam Finalists Announced!
Following a pair of intensely contested semi-final rounds, 12 outstanding spoken word poets have made it through to the 2015 Verses Bocas Poetry Slam Finals! Four poets have also qualified as ranked contenders on a standby list, and will participate in that order, if for any reason the finalists are unable to compete. Congratulations to the 12 […]
Looking at the Bocas 2015 Longlist: The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2015 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger “So every night while the mapmaker expands on his network of secret roads and slaving roads, marooning roads and blackbush roads, what he has really concerned himself with is Zion — a question has wedged itself between his learning and awakening: how does one map a […]
Top three books named for 2015 OCM Bocas Prize
Books by authors from Jamaica and St Lucia have made the shortlist for the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. From a longlist of nine books in the categories of poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction, the Prize judges have chosen three genre winners. Announced on 1 April, 2015, these […]