Authors
The 2019 Carifesta XIV line-up of writers, speakers, and performers in themed events.
Alexandra Stewart
Writer and Spoken Word Artist
Aliyyah Eniath
Author of The Yard
Andre Bagoo
Author of 'The Undiscovered Country'
Angelique V. Nixon
Writer | Artist | Teacher | Scholar | Activist | Poet
Anthony Joseph
Poet | Novelist | Musician
Attillah Springer
Writer and activist
Barbara Jenkins
Award-winning author
Breanne McIvor
Author of Here There Are Monsters
Brian London
Calypsonian
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry
Deneka Thomas
Spoken word poet
Earl Lovelace
Critically-acclaimed Trinidadian writer
Elisha Efua Bartels
Writer | Performer | Director
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Author of 'Stick No Bills'
Gabrielle Hosein
Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI St. Augustine
Gerard Besson
Historian, writer, and founder of Paria Publishing
Hadassah K. Williams
Writer featured in the anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean
Ian Randle
Publisher
Idrees Saleem
VERSES Bocas poetry slam champion 2014
Ira Mathur
Journalist and writer
John Robert Lee
Author of 'Pierrot'
Judy Raymond
Author of Beryl McBurnie
June Aming
Trinidadian writer shortlisted for Small Axe competition 2014
Keith Jardim
Author of Near Open Water
Kendel Hippolyte
Poet, playwright and director
Kevin Adonis Browne
Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize
Kevin Jared Hosein
Winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Lance Dowrich
2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize winner
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Author of 'Home Home'
Michael Anthony
Caribbean author and historian
Muli Amaye
Author of A House With No Angels
Patti-Anne Ali
Writer, Director, Actor
Paul Keens-Douglas
Actor, author, and storyteller
Stella Chong Sing
Writer in We Mark Your Memory
Vashti Bowlah
Author of Sugarcane Valley
Vladimir Lucien
Author of 'Sounding Ground', winner of the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize
