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by Apphia Barton, #bocas2018 Youth Blogger You do not. You cannot. Abort mission. “You’re home, you’re in the right place, these are your people, this...

08 May 2018

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#bocas2018 Youth Blog: One-on-One with Alex Wheatle

by Joziann Lewis, #bocas2018 Youth Blogger When you hear the name Alex Wheatle, what comes to mind? Prior to the one-on-one seminar which I was...

02 May 2018

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2018 Grand Slam Winner

Deneka Thomas is the new champion of the First Citizens National Poetry Slam and the winner of fifty thousand dollars, courtesy title sponsor First Citizens....

02 May 2018

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#bocas2018 Youth Vlog: Interview with Imam Baksh

Welcome to our #bocas2018 post-festival coverage! Here’s a vlog from one of our 2018 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Youth Bloggers, Saajid Hosein. He’s interviewing Guyanese...

02 May 2018

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T&T’s Jennifer Rahim wins OCM Bocas Prize

Curfew Chronicles, a collection of linked short stories by writer Jennifer Rahim of Trinidad and Tobago, has been named the winner of the 2018 OCM...

24 Apr 2018

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Culture at the festival!

Trinidad and Tobago’s traditional art forms are centre stage at the 5-day 2018 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, registering an intensified investment in local cultural arts....

21 Apr 2018

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Drama at the festival

The Suffrage of Elvira and The Black Jacobins get dramatic treatment at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest! VS Naipaul’s classic political satire Suffrage of Elvira was...