The NGC Bocas Lit Fest’s South+Central Weekend: Part One
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2014 Bocas Lit fest blogger T’is the season for literary merriment once more, friends! In truth, for stalwart book lovers, it’s always... Read More
Fiction – Oonya Kempadoo and Lawrence Scott
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. The driving question that prompted novelist Lawrence Scott towards writing Light Falling on Bamboo was this: “What was... Read More
New Talent Showcase – Shivanee Ramlochan
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. Well. This is weird, right? When I asked Nicholas Laughlin, the Festival Programme director, how blogging... Read More
Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference – A National Literature?
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. Fifty years ago, a dynamic series of talks on literature emerged in Edinburgh. A gathering of... Read More
One on One – Irvine Welsh
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. Margaret Thatcher, Scottish writer Irvine Welsh joked, ought to be heralded as the uncredited ghostwriter of... Read More
One on One – Olive Senior
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. Nary a free seat could be scrounged at Olive Senior’s packed Old Fire Station one on... Read More
New Talent Showcase – Sonia Farmer
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. Bahamian poet Sonia Farmer, the second of this year’s New Talent Showcase writers, shared readings from... Read More
One on One – Marina Warner
by Shivanee Ramlochan, 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger. “I needed to write this book, because I had to find out what I had worshipped,”... Read More