Authors

Poet | Essayist | Translator

Writer | Broadcaster | Barrister

Multi award-winning British novelist

Environmental economist

Writer and Spoken Word Artist

Head of School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia

Writer | Cultural activist

2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winner

Author of The City of Dreadful Night

Writer | Artist | Teacher | Scholar | Activist | Poet

Poet | Novelist | Musician

Writer | Editorial consultant

Award-winning author

Professor Emerita of language and literature | Novelist

Former principal UWI Saint Augustine | Naipaul scholar

Calypsonian | Extempo lyricist

Author of Here There Are Monsters

Professor Emerita of history | Author

Professor Emeritia of literary and cultural studies | Broadcaster | Columnist

2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers Winner

Poet | Journalist | Human rights activist

Publishing consultant

Midnight Robber

Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry

Library Conservator | Head of the Preservation and Conservation (PAC) Laboratory

New England Poetry Club’s 2016 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize Winner | Boston’s second poet laureate

2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize Winner

Journalist | Librarian

Spoken word poet

Spoken word poet

2013 Man Booker Prize Winner

2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature Finalist

Activist | Scholar | 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize Winner

Chair of the non-fiction judges for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize

Deputy Festival Director, NGC Bocas Lit Fest | Nigerian prize-winning writer based in Trinidad

2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean Literature Finalist

Commonwealth Short Story Prize Winner

Award-winning freelance journalist

Author of Tell No-One About This

Edinburgh International Book Festival Children & Education Programme Director

Fullbright fellow | Lecturer

2018 OCM Bocas Prize Winner, Fiction

Founder and Managing Editor of the UK publishing house Peepal Tree Press

Professor of English at James Madison University

Musician

Author of Beryl McBurnie

Goucher College’s Spring 2017 Kratz Writer in Residence

Multi award-winning poet

2017 OCM Bocas Prize Winner, Fiction

Author of Near Open Water

Editor of sx salon

Professor Emeritus of West Indian literature | Literary critic

Winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Assistant Professor UTT | Author

Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center

Author & Writing workshop facilitator

Multi award-winning author

Librarian

Author of Tomorrow, Please God: The Seven Narratives

Photographer | Producer

Award-winning documentary filmmaker | Director of SAVANT Ltd

Founder and Director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest

Honorary Founding Director of the Music Literacy Trust  

Poet | Visual artist

Director of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale

2013 OCM Bocas Prize Winner

Author of A House With No Angels

2018 Extempo Champion

Chairman Eastern Region and VP & Public Relations Officer of the Steelband Association (Pan Trinbago) | Operations Manager of T&T National Steel Orchestra

Programme director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest

Author of Frontiers of the Caribbean

Award winning British-Jamaican poet

Caribbean writer | Political and cultural blogger

Co-editor of Moko

Sri Lanka-born, British writer | Short-listed for the Booker Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize

Assistant Professor at the Academy of the Arts

Past President and Fellow of the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects

Author of The Naipauls of Nepaul Street

2018 Burt Award Finalist

2018 OCM Bocas Prize Winner, Poetry

Representative of the United Nations Development Programme for T&T

Award-winning author

Trinidadian poet, critic, and book blogger

Bahamian writer | Founder of Poinciana Paper Press

Executive Director of the Society for Ethnomusicology

Journalist

Managing Director of the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies | Senior Career Journalist

Founding Editor of Wasafiri: Magazine of International Contemporary Writing

Young adult and children's author

Writer | Editor | Filmmaker

Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize | Chair of the poetry judges for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize.

International lawyer | Social entrepreneur

2017 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature Winner