The Bocas Lit Fest and the Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA) have launched a new initiative to promote literacy through literature in a special series of readings by local authors. Some of Trinidad and Tobago’s best writers are visiting adult literacy classes to read from their books and to talk to literacy students about the books
CODE’s 2016 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature is now open for submissions Eligible books and manuscripts must be received at the office of the Bocas Lit Fest by 31 October 2015. In its third year, the Award, established by Canadian education NGO CODE with the generous support of the Literary Prizes Foundation and in partnership
The Verses Bocas Poetry Slam top three perform at True Talk, No Lie On Wednesday 27 May, the regular open mic event True Talk, No Lie features the Top 3 Poets from the Verses Bocas Poetry Slam: Akile Wallace, Derron Sandy, and Kleon McPherson. If you missed the epic spoken word competition finale on May 3 at the 2015 NGC
The second year of winners of a unique literary award that provides thousands of youth across the Caribbean region each year with access to exciting new titles were announced on May 1st. The 2015 award ceremony for CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, recognizing outstanding literary works for young adults written by Caribbean authors, was
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2015 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger “Now, you concoct your own geography: to roads that should have shrivelled into primitive paths of red dirt, that should’ve stained your shoes, led you to the squat satisfaction of some zinc-roofed hut. You should’ve felt the loneliness of all the night’s windowsills, the fleeting interest
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2015 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Blogger “As I walk through a bazaar on the beach where vendors sell fruits, fried fish, fragrant oils, calabashes, hemp dresses, natural juices, a woman walks out of the waves: “I must read your palms, O woman of magic.” She pulls me down into the sand, sits
Poets from three Caribbean countries in the running for region’s leading emerging writers’ award The judges for the 2015 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize have announced a shortlist of five, chosen from among the ten previously longlisted writers. The leading Caribbean award for emerging writers will be awarded this year in the field of poetry.
Call for submissions of students’ work inspired by Caribbean literature Send us your best work for an exhibition to be mounted at the National Library during the NGC Bocas Lit Fest 2015 The exhibition will display original, creative work by young people aged 12 – 18 inspired by their readings of the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature
At last week’s exciting finals of the Courts Bocas Secondary Schools Spoken Word Intercol competition, Michael Logie of St. Augustine Secondary School, had to pull out all the stops to beat his rivals for the top prize. The 18-year old’s poem, The Birds, The Trees and I, wowed the judges with its rhyme, up-to-the minute
The leading Caribbean literary award for young adult literature, CODE’s Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, will go to one of three shortlisted writers from Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The writers are in the running for valuable cash prizes and a publishing deal with a Caribbean publisher that will see 7,500 copies of their
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