Shivanee Ramlochan
Trinidadian poet, critic, and book blogger
Biography
Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, critic, and book blogger. Her first book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 People’s Choice T&T Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Shivanee was shortlisted for the 2018 Bridport Prize for Poetry. “The Red Thread Cycle”, from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry (second-place), and is on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas.
Find Shivanee’s work online at www.novelniche.net, shivaneeramlochan.com, @novelniche.
All events with Shivanee Ramlochan
Peekash Presents
30 Apr 2015
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
De Nu Pub, French Street, Woodbrook
Brave new worlds: how fantasy can fix reality
01 May 2015
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Old Fire Station
NGC Bocas Lit Fest South 2015
11 Oct 2015
12:00 pm - 9:00 pm
San Fernando Hill
Wide Sargasso Sea at 50
28 Apr 2016
10:30 am - 11:30 am
AV Room
One-on-one with Kamila Shamsie
28 Apr 2016
4:00 pm-5:00 pm
Old Fire Station
One-on-one With Dionne Brand
29 Apr 2016
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Old Fire Station
Poetry Forward: celebrating the vitality of contemporary Caribbean poetry
27 Apr 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Kaiso Blues Café, 85 Woodford Street
Caribbean poetry’s new wave
30 Apr 2017
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Old Fire Station
After Dark: An intimate encounter with Monique Roffey and Shivanee Ramlochan
18 Apr 2018
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Bocas Lit Fest Writers’ Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
Book Launch: Tito, by Marcelo Simonetti
23 Apr 2018
6:00 pm
Bocas Lit Fest Writers’ Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
Book Launch: In a World of Their Own: Carnival Dreamers & Makers, Photographs by Maria Nunes
24 Apr 2018
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Big Black Box, 33 Murray Street, Woodbrook
First Time Authors
25 Apr 2018
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
AV Room
Workshop: Writers First
25 Apr 2018
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
AV Room
Film: Pacific Voices
26 Apr 2018
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
AV Room
Salon: In conversation with Barbara Lalla
28 Apr 2018
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
2nd Floor Seminar Room
Take Two: Let poems blaze
29 Apr 2018
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Old Fire Station
Film: Pacific Voices
29 Apr 2018
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
AV Room
Poetry Masterclass Workshop (Part 1)
11 Nov 2018
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
Poetry Masterclass Workshop (Part 2)
18 Nov 2018
9:30 am - 12:30 pm
The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
Cropper Foundation at 20
04 May 2019
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
AV Room
Take Two: Claire Adam (Golden Child) and Alexia Arthurs (How to Love a Jamaican)
04 May 2019
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Old Fire Station
Take Two: Nick Makoha (Kingdom of Gravity) and Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné (Doe Songs)
04 May 2019
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Old Fire Station
Reading beyond boundaries
05 May 2019
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Old Fire Station
Take Two: Nicole Sealey and Forward Prize winner Danez Smith
05 May 2019
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Old Fire Station