On Sunday, April 28, Queen’s Hall will be ablaze with high-powered poetry performances for the 2024 First Citizens National Poetry Slam. A pool of 80 auditionees was whittled down to 16 through semifinal rounds at the Central Bank Auditorium on March 23 and 24, all vying for the coveted title of Grand Slam Champion. The
There is a week in October each year when a particular subset of readers — Caribbean or otherwise — hold their breaths hoping to hear a particular writer’s name. The reason is the annual announcement of the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the writer is Dionne Brand, who many readers and scholars
A stellar array of acclaimed authors will be in the lineup at the 2024 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, alongside debut and budding writers of all genres. Trinidad and Tobago’s annual festival of books and writers, which is also the Anglophone Caribbean’s biggest annual literary event, launched its upcoming programme today. Running from Thursday 25 to
Milestone anniversaries of two groundbreaking Caribbean novels are among the highlights of the upcoming 2024 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, with special events on the first two nights of the annual festival. Spirits in the Dark, the debut novel by Vincentian-Canadian writer H. Nigel Thomas, will be in the spotlight on Thursday 25 April, as the
“What we think of as unimaginable is simply real life for others, both far away and on our very doorstep,” says Karen Lord. The Barbadian author, whose latest novel The Blue, Beautiful World was recently longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction, will be part of a special lineup of events at the 2024 NGC
In May 2022, when Geetanjali Shree’s novel Tomb of Sand was named the winner of that year’s International Booker Prize, it made history. It was the first novel written in a South Asian language to win the prestigious award, and Shree was the first writer from India to take home the accolade —sibling to the
Two of Trinidad and Tobago’s literary icons will star at the 2024 NGC Bocas Lit Fest — but posthumously, with the launch of much-anticipated new books. On Sunday 28 April, the programme for the Anglophone Caribbean’s biggest literary festival will include special launch events for a new memoir by the late Prof. Gordon Rohlehr, who
Welcome to the latest installment of the Bocas Book Bulletin, a monthly roundup of Caribbean literary news, curated by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival, and published in the Sunday Express. New Releases Set in Trinidad, Palmyra (Friesen Press), shortlisted for the 2023 Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction, is Karen
Books by authors from the US Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and Jamaica have won the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction categories of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media, owner of the Trinidad and Tobago Express newspaper, TV6, and the OCM radio network.
Writers Nicole Sealey, Kevin Jared Hosein, and Safiya Sinclair will now compete for the overall Prize, considered the most prestigious award for Caribbean writing. In its 14th consecutive year, the OCM Bocas Prize recognises the best books published by authors of Caribbean birth or citizenship annually.
Historian Dr. Claudius Fergus, retired Senior Lecturer at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, launched his latest book, Against Toleration: Britain’s Persecution of the Spiritual Baptists, at the Central Bank Auditorium on Wednesday, 27 March 2024. The book launch, held in partnership with the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, was a celebration of scholarship and a call to action for a more inclusive Caribbean society.
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