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Poster for the 2022 FCNPS Grand Slam featuring portraits of poets, event details for 9 October at Naparima Bowl, and a list of participating poets.

First Citizens National Poetry Slam Finals Returns to The Stage!

September 21, 2022

Book cover for The Stranger Who Was Myself by Barbara Jenkins, featuring a woman’s portrait and a small inset photo of a couple, as seen in the September 2022 Bocas Book Bulletin.

Bocas Book Bulletin: September 2022

September 1, 2022

2023 OCM BOCAS PRIZE OPENS FOR submissions

August 22, 2022

Poster for the Bocas Lit Fest Season of Independence event, running from 31 August to 24 September to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Trinidad and Tobago’s independence.

Bocas launches “Season of Independence”

August 21, 2022

Book cover for “Love the Dark Days” by Ira Mathur, featuring a decorative flower arrangement and a blurb by Monique Roffey, highlighted in the August 2022 Bocas Book Bulletin.

Bocas Book Bulletin: August 2022

August 3, 2022

Black-and-white portrait of a man in a suit and tie holding a cigarette to his lips, an image reminiscent of those found in 100 Caribbean books.

100 Caribbean Books podcast: Kevin Jared Hosein on No Pain Like This Body

July 15, 2022

George Lamming

Remembering George Lamming on Caribbean Literature Day

July 12, 2022

Book cover for “Zo and the Forest of Secrets” by Alake Pilgrim, showing a girl in a dense forest with glowing eyes in the foliage, featured in the July 2022 Bocas Book Bulletin.

Bocas Book Bulletin: July 2022

July 6, 2022

Poster for the First Citizens National Poetry Slam themed “A Season of Change”, featuring the logos of Bocas Lit Fest and FCPS 10 for the national slam.

20 POETS MAKE NATIONAL SLAM CUT

July 4, 2022

Five people standing in a row in front of branded banners, two of whom are holding small white gift boxes of Write Away educational toys.

WRITE AWAY! MAKES LEARNING FUN

June 26, 2022