by Ashlee Burnett, #bocas2018 Youth Blogger Facts are often hard-hitting. They make swallowing the truth bruise your throat because of how harsh they are. We still welcome them, even though pain exists. Knowing the facts feels like a cool and soothing breeze on the wound. At the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, you will know truth. […]
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by Apphia Barton, #bocas2018 Youth Blogger You do not. You cannot. Abort mission. “You’re home, you’re in the right place, these are your people, this is your tribe” The festival’s energy is palpable. As you enter the festival village from the entrance at Hart Street, pass the security guards, through the metal detectors and automatic
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by Joziann Lewis, #bocas2018 Youth Blogger When you hear the name Alex Wheatle, what comes to mind? Prior to the one-on-one seminar which I was fortunate to have attended, I would have said, and only said, “An award winning, Jamaican, black author.” Now, while that statement is definitely true, it’s lacking something. Something that defines
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Deneka Thomas is the new champion of the First Citizens National Poetry Slam and the winner of fifty thousand dollars, courtesy title sponsor First Citizens. The big-ticket event of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the Slam finals brought down the curtains on the national annual literary festival on Sunday evening at the National Academy for
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Welcome to our #bocas2018 post-festival coverage! Here’s a vlog from one of our 2018 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Youth Bloggers, Saajid Hosein. He’s interviewing Guyanese writer Imam Baskh, winner of the 2018 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature. Here’s what Saajid said about this interview: “When I was asked to interview Guyanese author
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Curfew Chronicles, a collection of linked short stories by writer Jennifer Rahim of Trinidad and Tobago, has been named the winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the most prestigious international award for Caribbean writing. Evelyn O’Callaghan, chair of the fiction judges of the prize, made the announcement at a ceremony on
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