Now in its third year, the Reading with the NGC Bocas Lit Fest project kicked off simultaneously with the Bocas Lit Fest and CODE Burt Awards #readwithme campaign. So it seemed fitting that both the adult and youth book clubs read two of the 2016 winners of CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, Dreams […]
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Both U.WE Speak and U.SC Speak are produced by the 2 Cents Movement as a Bocas Lit Fest youth project. They are free and open to the public. This semester there were several university open mic sessions related to World Mental Health Day (album) and the International Day of The Girl (album). Special editions included discussions about
Critics, prizes and publishers all have their say on what qualifies as the “best” book, but now it’s time for readers to choose their best book of the year! For the first time Trinidad and Tobago is to have an annual literary award for local writers, and the winner is to be chosen by the
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You’ve just raced through a page turning thriller, or groaned in relief as you finally finished a burdensome romance with far too much filler. Now, you’re bursting to tell someone your thoughts, good, bad, or in-between. You turn to the page or computer screen, then freeze: how to begin to say what you really mean?
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“It takes a big mind, or at least a big worldview, to write from a small space,” says Jamaican writer Marlon James, winner of the 2015 Man Booker Prize, in his introduction to a groundbreaking new anthology, available in December 2017. Collecting original fiction, essays and poems from seventeen countries in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, and
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Papillote Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of two YA novels by winners of the 2017 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. The Art of White Roses by Viviana Prado-Núñez is set in Cuba in 1957 and explores what it’s like to witness political and emotional upheaval when you are young and helpless. “In
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On Sunday 12 November, the Bocas Lit Fest launched the Caribbean edition of CODE’s Read with Me campaign — a reading promotion campaign designed to promote the love and habit of reading by providing encouragement and inspiration. The campaign features “Reading Champions” from Africa, the Caribbean and Canada. A reading champion is anyone interested in
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We officially kick off the National Spoken Word Intercol (now to be known as Raise the Bar) and CODE’s Read with Me social media campaign with an epic night of performance, co-hosted by social media sensation Ro’dey the Entertainer and spoken word artist Derron Sandy. An exhibition slam featuring intercol alumni and popular spoken word
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Bocas brings the youth perspective to the forefront in a series of events from 11 to 17 November 2017. In our ongoing secondary school spoken word tour we encourage students to SPEAK OUT on issues that affect them, and now we’re bringing their ideas to the world through a week of performance, readings, workshops and
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Tamika Gibson (Dreams Beyond the Shore), Danielle Y.C. McClean (The Protector’s Pledge), Florenz Webbe Maxwell (Girlcott), and Imam Baksh (Children of the Spider) are all winners of the annual, much coveted Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature, sponsored by the Canadian literary development agency CODE and managed by the Bocas Lit Fest. In a
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