Below is our complete A-Z directory of participants who have taken part in the NGC Bocas Lit Fest over the years. If you wish to explore participants by year attended, awards won or their role within the festivals, please visit this page.
- A-dZiko Simba Gegele
- A. L. Dawn French
- Aalon Bullard
- Aaron Duncan
- Aaron Kamugisha
- Aarti Gosine
- Abigail Parry
- Achy Obejas
- Adalber Salas Hernández
- Adam Andrews
- Adam Lowe
- Afua Hirsch
- Agyei Archer
- Aija Jerome
- Aisha Acres
- Akhim Alexis
- Akilah Jaramogi
- Al Ramsawak
- Alake Pilgrim
- Alana-Marie Gopaul
- Aleah Charlemagne
- Alecia McKenzie
- Alette Liz Williams
- Alex de Verteuil
- Alex Wheatle
- Alexander Girvan
- Alexandra Stewart
- Alexandria Douglas
- Alexia Arthurs
- Alianna Grant
- Alisa Gomez
- Alison Donnell
- Alissa Trotz
- Aliyyah Eniath
- Allan Guthrie
- Alscess Lewis-Brown
- Alvin Daniell
- Alyssa Jackson
- AM . ALI
- Amanda Alcántara
- Amanda Choo Quan
- Amanda Hernández
- Amanda Smyth
- Amanda T. McIntyre
- Ambika Jadoonanan
- Amílcar Sanatan
- Ana Portnoy Brimmer
- Anderson Patrick
- Andil Gosine
- André Alexis
- Andre Bagoo
- Andrea Stuart
- Andrew Fitt
- Andrew Menacett
- Andy Johnson
- Andy Knight
- Anella Shillingford
- Angela Laquis-Sobrian
- Angelique V. Nixon
- Angelo Bissessarsingh
- Anita Chandradath Singh
- Anita Sethi
- Ann-Margaret Lim
- Anna Levi
- Annalee Davis
- Anne Walmsley
- Anthony de Verteuil
- Anthony Joseph
- Anthony N. Sabga III
- Anthony Wall
- Anton Nimblett
- Antonia MacDonald-Smythe
- Anu Lakhan
- Aonghas MacNeacail
- Apphia Barton
- Ararimeh Aiyejina
- Ardene Sirjoo
- Ariana Herbert
- Arielle John
- Ark Ramsay
- Arnold Ward
- Aryana Mohammed
- Asha Javeed
- Ashmita Simran Ramoutar
- Attillah Springer
- Audrey Brown
- Auntie Thea
- Austin Clarke
- Avion Crooks
- Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
- Ayesha Harruna Attah
- Ayodhya Ouditt
- Ayrïd Chandler
- Barbara Jenkins
- Barbara Lalla
- Baroness Susan Greenfield
- Barry Goldblatt
- Basdeo Panday
- Basil Ince
- Basil Reid
- Baz Dreisinger
- Beena Ramdeen
- Bernardine Evaristo
- Betty Peter
- Beverley-Ann Scott
- Beverly Scobie
- Bhaskar Sunkara
- Bhoendradatt Tewarie
- Black Sage
- Blake Morrison
- Boyd Tonkin
- Brandon Butcher
- Brandon Mc Ivor
- Brandon O’Brien
- Breanne McIvor
- Brenda Hughes
- Brendon O’Brien
- Brian Benoit
- Brian Boyce
- Brian London
- Brian Samuel
- Bridget Brereton
- Brinsley Samaroo
- Britt McHugh
- Britta Rajkumar
- Bruce Cayonne
- Camille Hernández-Ramdwar
- Canisia Lubrin
- Carla Parris
- Carol Mitchell
- Carole Boyce Davies
- Carolina Arrieta Castillo
- Caroline Mackenzie
- Carolyn Ali
- Carolyn Cooper
- Carolyn S. Seereeram-Harnanan
- Caron Asgarali
- Caryl Phillips
- Cecil Browne
- Cecilia Salazar
- Cecily Alexander
- Celeste Mohammed
- Celeste Rita Baker
- Celia A. Sorhaindo
- Chadd Cumberbatch
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
- Charlene Joseph-Holmes
- Che Lovelace
- Che Rodriguez
- Chelsea Cree
- Cherie Jones
- Cheryl Bowles
- Chika Unigwe
- Chike Pilgrim
- Chioke Jude Herbert
- Chloe Garner
- Chris Baball
- Chris Dolan
- Chrisette Benjamin
- Christina Sharpe
- Christine Norton
- Christopher Laird
- Cindy Allman
- Claire Adam
- Claire Armitstead
- Clare Alexander
- Claudia de Verteuil
- Cleyvis Natera
- Colette Jones-Chin
- Colin Bootman
- Colin Grant
- Colin Robinson
- Colleen Selvon-Rampersad
- Colleen Smith Dennis
- Conrad Parris
- Corine La Font
- Coryn Anaya Clarke
- Courttia Newland
- Curdella Forbes
- Cyril Dabydeen
- D. E. Ambrose
- D.J. Simmons
- Daena De Souza Viscuña
- Damian Whiskey
- Danez Smith
- Daniel Hahn
- Daniel J. O’Brien
- Daniel José Older
- Daniel Ryan
- Daniela Tramacere
- Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné
- Danielle Delon
- Danielle Fraser
- Danielle Gianetti
- Danielle Legros Georges
- Danielle Parkinson
- Danielle Y.C. McClean
- Dara E Healy
- Dara Wilkinson-Bobb
- Daria Roberts
- Daria-Ann Martineau
- Darin Gibson
- Darlington Henry
- Daryll Goodchild
- David Abdulah
- David Chariandy
- David Codling
- David Dabydeen
- David Edgecombe
- David Furlonge
- David McDermott Hughes
- David Roberts
- David Ryan
- David Sammy
- Debbie Goodman
- Debbie Jacob
- Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel
- Deborah John
- Deborah Lee Matthews
- Deneka Thomas
- Denise Mina
- Derek Walcott, OBE
- Derrick Sharbodie
- Derron Sandy
- Derry Sandy
- Deryck Murray
- Désha A. Osborne
- Desiree C. Bailey
- Desiree Seebaran
- Desryn T. A. Collins
- Dex Gomez
- DH Gibbs
- Dharmbodh Westmaas
- Diana Evans
- Diana McCaulay
- Dion Carrington
- Dion Michael Diaz
- Dionne Brand
- Dixie Ann Archer-McBain
- Dominique Friday
- Dominique Le Gendre
- Donna Hemans
- Dr. Justin Ram
- Dr. Keith Rowley
- Dr. Patricia Saunders
- Dragonzilla
- Dwight Thompson
- Dylan Kerrigan
- Earl Lovelace
- Edward Baugh
- Edwidge Danticat
- Eintou Pearl Springer
- Eleanor Catton
- Elena Molchanova
- Eliot Weinberger
- Elise Dillsworth
- Elisha Efua Bartels
- Elizabeth J. Jones
- Elizabeth Montano
- Elizabeth Solomon
- Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
- Ellah Allfrey
- Elspeth Duncan
- Emma D’Costa
- Eric Lewis
- Eric Maitrejean
- Erna Brodber
- Errol Sitahal
- Esbeth Callender-Braithwaite
- Esther Figueroa
- Esther Phillips
- Evelyn O’Callaghan
- Everard J. McBain Jr
- Everard McBain
- Fabien M. Thomas
- Farouk Jr.
- Fazeer Mohammed
- Fedon Honore
- Felene Cayetano
- Felicia Chang
- Felix Edinborough
- Florenz Webbe Maxwell
- Francis Lovell
- Frank Birbalsingh
- Frank McField
- Frank Wynne
- Franka Philip
- Fred D’Aguiar
- Freetown Collective
- Funso Aiyejina
- Gabrielle Hosein
- Gabrielle Mohamed
- Gabrielle Murray
- Gail Morong
- Gaiutra Bahadur
- Garfield Ellis
- Garvin Tafari Parsons
- Gary Hector
- Gary Younge
- Gavin Luke
- Geeta Ramsingh
- Gemma Robinson
- Gene Lawrence
- Geoffrey MacLean
- Geoffrey Philp
- George Lamming
- Georgia Popplewell
- Gerard Besson
- Gerda Stevenson
- Gerelle Forbes
- Geron Ruiz
- Gilberte O’Sullivan
- Gillian Goddard
- Gillian Lucky
- Gillian Moor
- Gillian Royes
- Gillian Slovo
- Giselle Rampaul
- Gleanne Purcell-Brown
- Glenda-Rose Nassoma Layne
- Glenroy Taitt
- Gloriann Sacha Antonetty Lebrón
- Godfrey P. Smith
- Gordon Rohlehr
- Grace Achoy
- Grace Aneiza Ali
- Grace Nichols
- Greer Jones-Woodham
- Gregory Sloane-Seale
- Gregory Thompson
- Gustavo Barrera Calderón
- H[ubert] Nigel Thomas
- Hadassah K. Williams
- Hannah Lowe
- Harmony Farrell
- Harold Smart
- Hasani Taylor
- Hazel Manning
- Hazel McShine
- Hazel Simmons-McDonald
- Heather Cateau
- Heather Rodney Diaz
- Helen Batson
- Helen Drayton
- Hilary Copeland
- Hon. Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders
- Honor Ford-Smith
- Ian F. Ali
- Ian McDonald
- Ian Randle
- Ian Robertson
- Ibrahim Ahmad
- Idrees Saleem
- Iezora Edwards
- Ifeona Fulani
- Imam Baksh
- Ingrid Persaud
- Ira Mathur
- Irvine Welsh
- Isaac Price
- Isabelle Baafi
- Ishion Hutchinson
- Isoke Efia Edwards
- Ivette Romero
- Ivory Kelly
- Ivy Higgins
- J. Vijay Maharaj
- J.A. Lovelock
- Jackie Hinkson
- Jacob Ross
- Jacqueline Bishop
- Jacqueline Huggins
- Jacqueline Laguardia
- Jade Drakes
- Jaime Lee Loy
- James Aboud
- Jan Carson
- Jan Westmaas
- Jane Bryce
- Janet Smyth
- Janet Steel
- Janilla Carrington
- Janine Mendes-Franco
- Janique Dennis – Prescott
- Jannine Horsford
- Jásher De Gannes
- Jason Allen-Paisant
- Jason Williams
- Javaughn Forde
- Javier Carbajosa
- Jay T. John
- Jayron ‘DJ Rawkus’ Remy
- Jeanelle Clarke
- Jeanelle Frontin
- Jeanne Mason
- Jeannine Remy
- Jennifer Rahim
- Jennifer Thomas-Straker
- Jenny Green
- Jeremy Poynting
- Jerome Teelucksingh
- Jeunanne Alkins
- Jevon Tull
- Jherane Patmore
- Jhonn Young
- Jillian Carreira
- Jimmy October
- Jo-Anne Ferreira
- Joan Dayal
- Joan Osborne
- Joanne Hillhouse
- Joanne V. Gabbin
- Jocelyne Guilbault
- Joel Philip
- Johan Chuckaree
- John Agard
- John Cowley
- John L. Williams
- John O. Stewart
- John Robert Lee
- Johnny Stollmeyer
- Johnny Temple
- Jorge Franco Ramos
- Jorge Thielen-Armand
- José Serulle
- Joseph O’Neil
- Josh Hansraj
- Joshua Lue Chee Kong
- Josse Franco
- Judith Theodore
- Judy Raymond
- Julian Rogers
- Julie Morton
- June Aming
- June Soomer
- Kahaya Sooklalsingh
- Kai-De Alexis
- Kaie Kellough
- Kamarsha Sylvester
- Kamau Brathwaite
- Kamila Shamsie
- Karen Lord
- Karen McCarthy Woolf
- Katelin Sultan
- Katherine Agyemaa Agard
- Katia D. Ulysse
- Kaveh Akbar
- Kei Miller
- Keir Roopnarine
- Keith Gray
- Keith Jardim
- Kellie Magnus
- Kelly Baker Josephs
- Kemuel Pascall
- Ken Jaikaransingh
- Ken Ramchand
- Kendel Hippolyte
- Kenneth ‘Ken’ Gordon
- Kenneth Suratt
- Kenny Philips
- Kenroy Mulraine
- Kenyon Farrow
- Keon Francis
- Keron Niles
- Keron Niles
- Kerry Young
- Kervisha Cordice
- Kess the Illusionist
- Kevan Calliste
- Kevin Adonis Browne
- Kevin Baldeosingh
- Kevin Jared Hosein
- Keziah Gopaul
- Khamara-Lani Tarradath
- Ki Millard
- Kim Johnson
- Kim Robinson-Walcott
- Kirk Budhooram
- Kishan Kumarsingh
- Kizzy Ruiz
- Kleon McPherson
- Krystal A. Sital
- Kumar Mahabir
- Kurt Allen
- Kurtis Gross
- Kwame Dawes
- Kwame Ryan
- Kwame Weekes
- Kwynn Johnson
- Kya Pereira
- Kyle “Skeeto” Amos
- Kyle Hernandez
- Kyle Noel
- Kyriah Martinez
- L. A. Wanliss
- L. Renée
- Lady Syntax
- Lalonde Ochoa
- Lance Dowrich
- Lasana M. Sekou
- Laura Escayg
- Lauren Francis-Sharma
- Lauren K. Alleyne
- Laurence Breiner
- Lawerence Arjoon
- Lawrence Scott
- Legna Rodríguez Iglesias
- Leone Ross
- Lesley-Ann Brown
- Let’s Read TT
- Lexington Wilks
- Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Lisa Allen-Agostini
- Lisa Ghany
- Lisa Henry
- Lisa Outar
- Liseanne Martin-Subero
- Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
- Loretta Collins Klobah
- Lorna Goodison
- Lorraine Nero
- Lorraine Nero
- Lou Lyons
- Louis Lee Sing
- Lucy Hannah
- Luke Daniels
- Luke Neima
- Lylah Persad
- Lynette Seebaran-Suite
- Lynn Joseph
- M. James Cooper
- Mac Donald Dixon
- Madeline Coopsammy
- Maisy Card
- Majeed Karim
- Makyba Breezie
- Malachi McIntosh
- Malaika Adero
- Malika Booker
- Malka Older
- Mandisa Granderson
- Mandisa Pantin
- Marcia Douglas
- Marcus Millette
- Mareeka Dookie
- Margaret Busby
- Marge Blackman
- Maria Grau Perejoan
- Maria Nunes
- Mariano Brown
- Mariel Brown
- Marielle Forbes
- Marina Salandy-Brown
- Marina Warner
- Marion Bethel
- Marjorie Thorpe
- Mark Loquan
- Mark Lyndersay
- Mark Raymond
- Mark Wilson
- Marla Dukharan
- Marlene Attzs
- Marlene Daut
- Marlon James
- Marsha Gomes-McKie
- Marsha Pearce
- Marsha Riley
- Martin Daly
- Marva Newton
- Mary Cuffy
- Maryam Mallam
- Mayra Santos-Febres
- Melanie Archer
- Melissa Doughty
- Melissa Matthews
- Mere Taito
- Merissa Aguilleira
- Merle Hodge
- Mervyn Morris
- Mervyn Taylor
- Michael A. Bucknor
- Michael Anthony
- Michael Cherrie
- Michael Cozier
- Michael Dash
- Michael Kelleher
- Michael Logie
- Michael Magee
- Michael Mooleedhar
- Michelene Adams
- Miguel Browne
- Mila Smith
- Miscellaneous Authors
- Mishael Henry
- Monique Roffey
- Moriah Wong Chong
- Motilal Boodoosingh
- Muhammad Muwakil
- Muli Amaye
- Murdina Wright
- Myriam Chancy
- Myron B
- N.G. Peltier
- Nabeel Ishmael
- Nadella Oya
- Nadifa Mohamed
- Nadine McNeil
- Nadja Nabbie
- Naila Baynes
- Nailah Folami Imoja
- Nalo Hopkinson
- Nancy Morejón
- Naomi Jackson
- Natacha Jones
- Natalee Legore
- Natalie Edgecombe
- Natasha Carlow
- Nathalie Taghaboni
- Nazma Muller
- Neala Bhagwansingh
- Néhémy Pierre Dahomey
- Nehilet Blackman
- Neil Bissoondath
- Nell Leyshon
- Nestor Sullivan
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- Nicha Selvon-Ramkissoon
- Nicholas Galt
- Nicholas Gilbert
- Nicholas Laughlin
- Nick Makoha
- Nickolai Salcedo
- Nicola Ramsaran
- Nicolas Sosa
- Nicole Cecilia Delgado
- Nicole Dennis-Benn
- Nicole Roberts
- Nicole Sealey
- Nicolette Bethel
- Nigel Campbell
- Nigel Scott
- Nikeisha Jones
- Nikki Crosby
- Nnamdi Hodge
- NoViolet Bulawayo
- Okera Duncan
- Olive Senior
- Olufunmilayo Oyesanya-Ryan
- Omar Mohammed
- Omardath Maharaj
- Omare Asson
- Omari Joseph
- Oonya Kempadoo
- Opal Palmer Adisa
- Oprah Francis
- Orly Marley
- Osei Blake
- Otávio Maia Chelotti
- P. Djèlí Clark
- P.J. Patterson
- Pablo Neruda
- Padraig Regan
- Pamela Mordecai
- Pankaj Mishra
- Patience Agbabi
- Patricia J Adams
- Patricia Mohammed
- Patricia Saunders
- Patti-Anne Ali
- Paul Keens-Douglas
- Paula David
- Paula Gopee-Scoon
- Paula Lindo
- Paula Williams Madison
- Pauliana “Pauls” Padmore
- Pauline Melville
- Penelope Spencer
- Perspective the Entertainer
- Peter Kimani
- Peter Straus
- Philip Nanton
- Phillip Simon
- Polly Pattullo
- Portia Subran
- Princess Lewis
- Prithiviraj Bahadursingh
- Professor John Agard
- R.S.A. Garcia
- Rabindranath Maharaj
- Rachel Manley
- Rachel Pickering
- Rahul Bhattacharya
- Rajiv Mohabir
- Rajiv Ramkhalawan
- Ralph Maraj
- Ramabai Espinet
- Ramesh Deosaran
- Rawiya Hosein
- Raymond Antrobus
- Raymond Ramcharitar
- Reanna Edwards Paul
- Rebekah Daniel
- Reea Rodney
- Regina Dumas
- Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Rhoda Bharath
- Rhoma Spencer
- Ria Julien
- Ricardo Bharath Hernandez
- Richard Drayton
- Richard Fung
- Richard Georges
- Ricqcolia Phillip
- Rikki Jai
- Rita Leone
- Rivka Galchen
- Robert Antoni
- Robert Edison Sandiford
- Robin Kirkley
- Roderick “Chuck” Gordon
- Roger Robinson
- Rol-J Williams
- Roland Gulliver
- Roland Watson-Grant
- Romesh Gunesekera
- Ronald Cummings
- Ronald Harford
- Ronaldo Katwaroo
- Ronaldo Mohammed
- Rori Heffes-Doon
- Rosamond S. King
- Roslyn Carrington
- Roslyn Williams-George
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips
- Roy Cape
- RSA Garcia
- Rubadiri Victor
- Rudolph Ottley
- Rudylynn De Four Roberts
- Ruel Johnson
- Rupert Roopnaraine
- Ruth Borthwick
- Ruth Osman
- Ryan Assiu
- Ryan Durgasingh
- Saajid Hosein
- Sabrina Ramnanan
- Sadé Walker
- Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
- Safiya Sinclair
- Samantha Thornhill
- Samiya Bashir
- Sandra Pouchet Paquet
- Sarah Beckett
- Sarah Dass
- Sarah Inglefield
- Sarah Prince
- Sarah White
- Satnarayan (“Sat”) Maharaj
- Satnarine Balkaransingh
- Savitri (Savi) Naipaul Akal
- Schuyler Esprit
- Scott Ting-A-Kee
- Sean Samad
- Sean Taegar
- Selena Mohammed
- Selwyn R. Cudjoe
- Senator the Hon. Raziah Ahmed
- Seth Sylvester
- Shahidha Bari
- Shakaila Forbes-Bell
- Shakirah Bourne
- Shane Book
- Shane John
- Shani Mootoo
- Shania Martin
- Shara Mccallum
- Sharda Patasar
- Sharifa Ali-Abdullah
- Sharlan Bailey
- Sharma Taylor
- Sharon Jorcil-James
- Sharon Leach
- Sharon Millar
- Sheena Kamal
- Sheetal Daswani
- Shimiah Lewis
- Shineque Saunders
- Shivanee Ramlochan
- Shruti Debi
- Shynel Brizan
- Silvio Torres-Saillant
- Simon Browne
- Simone Dalton
- Simone Leid
- Sofia Chote
- Sonia Farmer
- Sonja Dumas
- Sophie Jai
- Steffanie Edward
- Stella Chong Sing
- Stephanie Bowry
- Stephanie Kanhai
- Stephanie Ramlogan
- Stephen Brown
- Stephen Connolly
- Stephen Narain
- Stephen Stuempfle
- Stephon Felmine
- Sterling Henderson
- Sterling Kent aka Gamma Ghost
- Steve Jones
- Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Sufia Giza Amenwahsu
- Summer Edward
- Sunity Maharaj
- Sushiela Nasta
- Sylvan Joseph
- Tafar Chia Lewis
- Tamara Groeneveldt
- Tamara Lewis
- Tamara Lowe
- Tamika Gibson
- Tanya Batson-Savage
- Tanya Shirley
- Teju Cole
- Tessa McWatt
- Tessa Pascall
- Thackwray “Dax” Driver
- Thea Lise Broome
- Thelma Perkins
- Theresa Awai
- Tiffanie Drayton
- Tiphanie Yanique
- Tishani Doshi
- Tobias S. Buckell
- Tony Hall
- Tracey Baptiste
- Tracy Assing
- Treldon Layne
- Tricia Chin
- Tristan Walker
- Tsarrio Millard
- Ty N. Batson
- Urayoán Noel
- Vahni Capildeo
- Valerie Taylor
- Vanda Radzik
- Vanessa Croft-Thompson
- Vanessa Salazar
- Vashti Bowlah
- Vaughn T. Stanford
- Verena Boodoosingh
- Verna Allette Wilkins
- Vianney-Marie Williams
- Vic Susanna Surajdeen
- Vicki-Ann Assevero
- Vishawn Gosyne
- Vivek Narayanan
- Viviana Prado-Núñez
- Vladimir Lucien
- Wade Mark
- Wandeka Gayle
- Warren Le Platte
- Wendell Manwarren
- Wendy Yawching
- Wesley Gibbings
- Willi Chen
- Winston “Gypsy” Peters
- Winston Trotman
- Xhaiden Darius
- Yolanda T. Marshall
- Yuri Herrera
- Yvonne Weekes
- Zahra Gordon
- Zakiya ‘Griot’ Gill
- Zalika Reid-Benta
- Zee Edgell
- Ziggy Marley