Courts Bocas Speak Out Intercol
Students from 20 secondary schools will compete this Friday, 4th March, for a place in the finals of this year’s Courts Bocas Speak Out Intercol. Only 12 competitors will go through to the final next week Friday, 11th March. The winner will be the Courts Bocas 2016 Secondary Schools Spoken Word champion. The exciting championship […]
First Citizens National Poetry Slam 2016 Auditions Results
The 33 semi-finalists were chosen from the 140 spoken word artists who auditioned for the First Citizens National Poetry Slam 2016. Don’t miss the spectacular semi-finals on Sunday 13 March & Sunday 20 March at 5:30pm, Daaga Auditorium, UWI, St. Augustine. Call (868) 775-3343 to order tickets. The First Citizens National Poetry Slam (formerly known as the VERSES Bocas […]
First Citizens National Poetry Slam Auditions
Calling all spoken word artists! You are hereby challenged to enter the biggest poetry slam in the Caribbean: The First Citizens National Poetry Slam (formerly: Verses Bocas Poetry Slam). Auditions will be held on 13 & 14 February from 9am – 5pm at the National Library (NALIS), Port of Spain. Details about the exciting prizes, the rules […]
The 6th annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest: 27 April – 1 May
It’s just about three months until the start of the 2016 festival, which runs from 27 April to 1 May in Port of Spain. Our team has been hard at work on this year’s programme, and as we begin to count down to those five exciting days, we want to make sure all our friends and festival regulars have the dates marked in their calendars. In the coming months we’ll be sharing more information about our […]
Take Nine Writers
It was a Caribbean first. Nine editors from all over the region travelled to Guyana for a free, weeklong, intensive, residential fiction editing workshop. Led by Jeremy Poynting of Peepal Tree Press (UK) and Johnny Temple of Akashic Books (USA), the two largest publishers of Caribbean literature, last week’s workshop was part of an on-going […]
From the Green Antilles: A showcase of new writing from across the Caribbean
From the Green Antilles: A showcase of new writing from across the Caribbean is a free public event on Thursday 21 January in Georgetown, Guyana that offers the rare opportunity to hear readings by nine regional writers. It will feature fiction and poetry readings by Tanya Batson-Savage (Jamaica), Felene Cayetano (Belize), Richard Georges (British Virgin […]
Hurricanes and Wakes
An evening of poetry with Loretta Collins Klobah, Andre Bagoo, and Shivanee Ramlochan Hosted by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. Monday 11 January, 2016, 7 pm, at Alice Yard. Loretta Collins Klobah, author of The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman, is visiting Trinidad for the first time since winning the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry in 2012. […]