The audition results are in! From a fierce competition between 129 brilliant and brave poets, 33 will be moving on to the semi-finals of the VERSES Bocas Poetry Slam… Congratulations to the top 33! :divider: VERSES BOCAS POETRY SLAM SEMI-FINALISTS (in alphabetical order) :2col: Akile Wallace Alexandra Stewart Alphieshe Guishard Ariana Herbert Askala George Brandon O’Brien Brendon
Haven’t made it to a Bocas Lit Fest event yet? Maybe you’re wondering what it’s all about? Check out this interview with our Founder and Director, Marina Salandy Brown, done in 2013 by Janine Mendes-Franco for Global Voices: The festival is a great event but it also only one aspect, albeit an important one, of the Bocas project.
Last year’s OCM Bocas non-fiction prize winner, Kei Miller, discusses his newest poetry collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet Press, 2014), at a Commonwealth Writers podcast talk that covers the cross-sections in humour and culture through a creative writing lens. “So The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion is very
Exclusive Publishing Deals Offered to Caribbean Publishers through the Burt Award Programme! The Burt Award for Caribbean Literature is an annual literary award and readership initiative that aims to provide engaging and culturally-relevant books for young people across the Caribbean. The Burt Award is open to published books, unpublished manuscripts, and previously self-published books, and will be given to three English-language literary works
Auditions for the annual VERSES BOCAS POETRY SLAM are here again! The Bocas Lit Fest is proud to partner with First Citizens and the 2 Cents Movement to present the biggest spoken word competition of 2015. Our 2014 slam had a $10,000 prize and was witnessed by a sold out audience at the Central Bank Auditorium in Port of
Announcing the publication of Musical Youth by Joanne C. Hillhouse, the second place winner of the 2014 Burt Award for Caribbean Literature, published by Caribbean Reads. The manuscript of Musical Youth was awarded second place in the inaugural Burt Award for Caribbean Literature. Caribbean publishers were invited to bid on the publication rights for this award-winning
Join us for an exciting weekend of events, 8-9 November at SAPA, San Fernando. Click here for more info on the NGC Bocas Lit Fest South 2014
Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 November @ The UTT Campus, SAPA, San Fernando. A weekend of celebration and exploration… The 2-day South festival opens at 10:30am on Saturday 8 November with a tribute to the life and work of San Fernando son, Samuel Selvon. To mark the 20th anniversary of his death, popular actors Errol
The 2 Cents Movement poets as they start the 2014-2015 Courts Bocas Speak Out Secondary Schools Tour. The Tour includes 50 secondary schools nationwide and culminates in March 2015 with Trinidad and Tobago’s only Spoken Word Intercol competition.
Robert Antoni, 2014 winner of the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature; 2012 winner, Earl Lovelace; and Kei Miller, 2014 non-fiction winner, were among a group of eight writers invited to showcase Caribbean writing in the Swiss alpine town of Bellinzona last weekend. The annual Babel Festival of Literature and Translation put the spotlight on
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