Announcing the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize shortlist
For the first time in the six-year history of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, books by women authors have been named as winners of all three genre categories of the Caribbean’s top writers’ award, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. From the longlist of nine books, the Prize judges have chosen Wife, by US […]
The First Citizens National Poetry Slam Finalists
Thirteen poets have qualified for the big final of the 2016 First Citizens National Poetry Slam. It is the Caribbean’s biggest Spoken Word event and the final will take place on Sunday 1 May at The Globe cinema – the closing event of the 2016 NGC Bocas Lit Fest. This is the second year of the National […]