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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 City of Dreadful Night
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
Chadd Cumberbatch
Colette Jones-Chin
D.J. Simmons
Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
Winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry
Daryll Goodchild
Deneka Thomas
Spoken word poet
Dwight Thompson
Earl Lovelace
Trinidadian novelist, playwright, and short story writer
Elisha Efua Bartels
writer, teacher, performer and director
Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Author and Professor of French literature and Creative Writing
Esther Phillips
Frank McField
Gabrielle Hosein
Lecturer and Head of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, UWI
Gabrielle Mohamed
Gerard Besson
Historian, writer, and founder of Paria Publishing
H.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
Award-winning freelance journalist
James Christopher Aboud
John Robert Lee
St. Lucian writer
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 Browne
photographer | poet | archivist
Kevin Jared Hosein
Winner of the 2018 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Lance Dowrich
winner of the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Lisa Allen-Agostini
Author & Writing workshop facilitator
Michael Anthony
Caribbean author and historian
Muli Amaye
Author of A House With No Angels
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Patti-Anne Ali
Writer, Director, Actor
Paul Keens-Douglas
Actor, author, and storyteller
Robert Edison Sandiford
Ruel Johnson
Scott Ting-A-Kee
Seth Sylvester
Stella Chong Sing
Writer in We Mark Your Memory
Tamara Groeneveldt
Vanessa Croft-Thompson
Vashti Bowlah
Author of Sugarcane Valley
Vladimir Lucien
Winner of the 2015 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Willi Chen
Yvonne Weekes
Zahra Gordon