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Book cover for “Like a Tree Walking” by Vahni Capildeo, featuring a scarlet ibis against a pink background, as seen in the December 2021 Bocas Book Bulletin.

Bocas Book Bulletin: December 2021

December 7, 2021

Poster for The Write Away poetry series by Gocas Lit Fes, sponsored by the Scotiabank Foundation.

Introducing The Write Away! Poetry Series

November 30, 2021

The award-winning book When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten shown beside a portrait of the author.

“Mangoes” wins the Children’s Book Prize!

November 28, 2021

Limited time offer: 15% off Friends of Bocas annual subscription!

November 19, 2021

Call for submissions for “Unstitching Silence,” a fiction and poetry anthology by Peekash Press about gender-based violence, due 15 January 2022.

Call for submissions to a fiction and poetry anthology to be published by Peekash Press

November 19, 2021

Book cover for “Sanctuaries of Invention” by Jennifer Rahim, featured in the November 2021 Bocas Book Bulletin.

Bocas Book Bulletin: November 2021

November 12, 2021

Applications are open for the 2022 Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowship for early-career Caribbean poets and prose writers. Apply by 6 December 2021 at bocaslitfest.com.

Call for applications: Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowships 2022

November 6, 2021

A young boy sitting behind metal bars, looking down at an open book in a photograph by David Ryan for T&T Newsday.

Young writer David Ryan featured in the T&T Newsday!

November 5, 2021

Shortlist for the 2021 Bocas Lit Fest Children’s Book Prize, including “When Life Gives You Mangoes,” “Chaos in Castries,” and “A Different Me A Better You,” preceding the 2022 Children’s Book Prize.

Children’s Book Prize 2021 Shortlist Announced!

November 5, 2021

Event invitation for an intimate chat with author Celeste Mohammed, hosted by Friends of Bocas Lit Fest on 24 October 2021.

You’re invited to an intimate chat with Celeste Mohammed!

October 18, 2021