Caribbean writers headline new international anthology
“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 […]
Burt Award winners to be published by Papillote Press
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 […]
The Read with Me campaign
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 […]
Raise the Bar: Sunday 12 November
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 […]
A week of events for youth
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 […]