More Than A Literary Festival

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NGC Bocas Lit Fest
28 - 30 April 2023

Apr 30 2023
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
1st Floor Seminar Room

Festival Schedule

Workshop

Interested in writing short stories? Struggling to know where to start? Belfast-based writer Jan Carson will guide you through the basics of writing imaginative and engaging short fiction, focusing on key themes such as developing ideas, writing believable characters and convincing dialogue, plot, structure, pacing, and concision.

Apr 30 2023
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Old Fire Station

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Fiction

Matters of the heart and of the creative spirit are the driving forces behind the latest novels by Sarah Dass (When the Vibe Is Right), N.G. Peltier (Don’t Go Baking My Heart), and Ayesha Harruna Attah (Zainab Takes New York). Hosted by Cindy Allman. With special thanks to the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative

N.G. Peltier
Apr 30 2023
10:00 am - 11:00 am
AV Room

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Awards

Scholar, former director of the Miami Caribbean Writers Summer Institute, Anthurium founder, and 2023 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award winner Sandra Pouchet Paquet discusses her life in and around literature with Patricia Saunders and Ronald Cummings.

Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Patricia Saunders
Apr 30 2023
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
AV Room

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Life Writing

In their new memoirs, Ira Mathur (Love the Dark Days, winner of the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction), Brian Samuel (A Song for My Father), and Simone Dalton (winner of the 2020 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Prize) tell stories of family and ancestry that range across oceans and continents. Hosted by Paula Lindo  

Paula Lindo
Simone Dalton
Apr 30 2023
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Abercromby Street Arcade

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Fiction,Performance,Poetry

It’s a two-part, laid-back, high energy celebration of T&T’s emerging writing talent! Our New Talent Showcase spotlights up and coming authors Jay T. John, Jannine Horsford, and Rajiv Ramkhalawan, followed by our signature open mic event. Want to share your work in our Stand & Deliver open mic? Sign up here!

Jannine Horsford
Apr 30 2023
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
AV Room

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Book Launch

The newly published Selected Diaries and Writings of Henry Swanzy offer an intimate self-portrait of the Irish-born BBC Caribbean Voices editor who played a crucial role in the development of Caribbean writers and writing in the 1940s.

Stephen Connolly
Lisa Outar
Kelly Baker Josephs
Apr 30 2023
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Old Fire Station

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Poetry

The performance of the self, the unpredictability of the body, and the intensity of queer desire animate new poetry collections by Andre Bagoo (Narcissus), Adam Lowe (Patterflash), and Padraig Regan (Some Integrity), hosted by Brandon O’Brien. In partnership with the British Council and the Belfast International Arts Festival.

Brandon O'Brien
Apr 30 2023
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
AV Room

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Performance

Dramatised excerpts from Sam Selvon’s Ways of Sunlight, and the launch of the “Ways of Sunlight” writing competition. Featuring Chelsea Ramjit, David Bereaux, Esther-Marie Jones, Jarod Baptiste, Keda Tempro, and Roderick “Chucky” Gordon Presented by the EU-funded Global Climate Change Alliance+

Apr 30 2023
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Old Fire Station

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Fiction,Poetry

In Sonnets for Albert, winner of the 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize, Anthony Joseph offers a moving portrait of the bonds and barriers between father and son. He talks about his books and ideas with Amílcar Sanatan.

Apr 30 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Old Fire Station

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Book Launch

Harold Sonny Ladoo, who died tragically in 1973 at the age of just 28, is one of the most mysterious yet consequential writers produced by T&T.

Kevin Jared Hosein
Apr 30 2023
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
AV Room

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Life Writing

Three memoirists from T&T share books about eventful careers, ranging from the conference room to the airplane cockpit. With Ronald Harford (Nil Illegitimi Carborundum), Angela Laquis-Sobrian (Breaking Free) and Wendy Yawching (The Courage to Fly), chaired by Franka Philip.

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