the NGC Bocas Lit Fest is back with A festival of “change”
“Four Days to Change the World” is the promise of the 2022 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual festival of words, stories, and ideas, which launches its upcoming virtual programme today. This is the twelfth year of the festival, the largest annual literary event in the Anglophone Caribbean — also its eleventh year […]
Announcing the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize shortlist
Three books, two of them by first-time authors, have been shortlisted for the twelfth annual OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Debut authors Jason Allen-Paisant, a Jamaican based in the UK, and Trinidadian Celeste Mohammed are joined on the list by Kei Miller, a former winner of the OCM Bocas Prize, considered the most prestigious […]
It’s time to STAND AND DELIVER!
Calling all Caribbean writers of all genres – it’s that time again! Submit your work to be a part of our 2022 festival and our “season of change” under any of the following themes: Let’s Change The World This Story has Never Been Told The Time is Now Your work will be featured during one […]
Bios & Bookmarks is back with “A Change Is Gonna Come”
A wind of change is blowing, and the NGC Bocas Lit Fest’s popular author interview series Bios & Bookmarks will explore the theme when the newest season opens on 17 March, 2022. Titled “A Change is Gonna Come” — after US singer Sam Cooke’s 1964 classic, an unofficial anthem of the Civil Rights Movement — […]