Anthony Joseph launched his biographical novel “Kitch” with a stellar performance at the 2018 NGC Bocas Lit Fest. This August, the UK-based, TT writer and performance poet returns to deliver the literary headliner for CARIFESTA XIV. In an expanded presentation of that memorable production, Joseph will read from his critically acclaimed fictionalised biography on Sunday
The much-anticipated 2020 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize is open for submissions in the non-fiction genre. This is the second round of the pan-Caribbean developmental award for emerging writers. The Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize, managed by The Bocas Lit Fest in Trinidad and Tobago and Arvon in the UK, is
Trinidadian Jeanelle Frontin has been named winner of this year’s CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature. Frontin, a debut author, received the first prize of $10,000 CAD for her self-published book The Unmarked Girl at a special event for students on the second day of the 2019 NGC Bocas Lit Fest (May 1-5)
A special programme of events at the 2019 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, presented in partnership with the British Council How does literature break through the social barriers that separate nations and cultures? In a time of renewed and urgent international anxiety about borders, immigration, refugees, and national sovereignty — all of which affect Caribbean nations
In the last few years a whole new generation of Caribbean writers have been making their debut, published in the USA, Britain and in the Caribbean. At this year’s annual national literary festival, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the diversity and richness of Caribbean writing through the voices of new and established authors will be
CODE and the Bocas Lit Fest have announced the finalists for the 6th CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature which recognizes excellent, engaging and culturally-relevant books in English for youth aged 12-18, written by Caribbean authors. The international jury, chaired by publisher Ian Randle and administered by The Bocas Lit Fest, has selected
Books by three writers from Trinidad and Tobago have made the shortlist for the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. This is the first time in the history of the prize, first awarded in 2011, that writers from a single Caribbean country have won all three genre categories, forming
Fifteen performance poets have advanced to the final round of the 2019 First Citizens National Poetry Slam (FCNPS), dubbed the ‘microphone throne’. On Sunday 5 May, they will take on defending national champion Deneka Thomas at NAPA in the closing event of the 9th NGC Bocas Lit Fest. It is the third consecutive year that
The 2019 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award is to be presented to IAN RANDLE O.D., B.A. (Hons); MSc, LL.D. (Hon), Chairman of Ian Randle Publishers Limited, the 26-year old company which he founded in 1990 as the Caribbean’s first commercial scholarly publishing company. Since 1990, Ian Randle Publishers has published dozens of titles by Caribbean and
Nine books by writers from four Caribbean countries have been announced on the longlist for the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Widely recognised as the leading literary award for Caribbean writers, the Prize recognises books in three genre categories — poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction — published by
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