CODE is proud to announce the finalists for its third annual Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, which recognizes outstanding writing for young adults by Caribbean authors. Six finalists were selected from among 60 submissions of published books and unpublished manuscripts. The 2016 shortlisted titles are: The Demise of the Queen’s College Adventure Club by Imam
Nine writers, ranging from the celebrated to the newly emerging, have been named on the longlist for the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. The Prize longlist, announced by the judges on 6 March, 2016, includes three genre categories: books of poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction. The poetry category
Students from 20 secondary schools will compete this Friday, 4th March, for a place in the finals of this year’s Courts Bocas Speak Out Intercol. Only 12 competitors will go through to the final next week Friday, 11th March. The winner will be the Courts Bocas 2016 Secondary Schools Spoken Word champion. The exciting championship
The 33 semi-finalists were chosen from the 140 spoken word artists who auditioned for the First Citizens National Poetry Slam 2016. Don’t miss the spectacular semi-finals on Sunday 13 March & Sunday 20 March at 5:30pm, Daaga Auditorium, UWI, St. Augustine. Call (868) 775-3343 to order tickets. The First Citizens National Poetry Slam (formerly known as the VERSES Bocas
Calling all spoken word artists! You are hereby challenged to enter the biggest poetry slam in the Caribbean: The First Citizens National Poetry Slam (formerly: Verses Bocas Poetry Slam). Auditions will be held on 13 & 14 February from 9am – 5pm at the National Library (NALIS), Port of Spain. Details about the exciting prizes, the rules
It’s just about three months until the start of the 2016 festival, which runs from 27 April to 1 May in Port of Spain. Our team has been hard at work on this year’s programme, and as we begin to count down to those five exciting days, we want to make sure all our friends and festival regulars have the dates marked in their calendars. In the coming months we’ll be sharing more information about our
It was a Caribbean first. Nine editors from all over the region travelled to Guyana for a free, weeklong, intensive, residential fiction editing workshop. Led by Jeremy Poynting of Peepal Tree Press (UK) and Johnny Temple of Akashic Books (USA), the two largest publishers of Caribbean literature, last week’s workshop was part of an on-going
From the Green Antilles: A showcase of new writing from across the Caribbean is a free public event on Thursday 21 January in Georgetown, Guyana that offers the rare opportunity to hear readings by nine regional writers. It will feature fiction and poetry readings by Tanya Batson-Savage (Jamaica), Felene Cayetano (Belize), Richard Georges (British Virgin
An evening of poetry with Loretta Collins Klobah, Andre Bagoo, and Shivanee Ramlochan Hosted by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. Monday 11 January, 2016, 7 pm, at Alice Yard. Loretta Collins Klobah, author of The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman, is visiting Trinidad for the first time since winning the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry in 2012.
by Barbara Jenkins Sangre Grande Library on a Wednesday afternoon, the day after the Tuesday Divali holiday, and traffic from Port of Spain is so light you can be excused for thinking that Trinidad has not only adopted but extended the Spanish ‘Puente’ whereby a public holiday falling near a weekend is bridged by having
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