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Book cover for The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant, featured in the April 2025 Bocas Book Bulletin, showing a figure on a tree stump surrounded by colourful tropical plants and flowers.

Bocas Book Bulletin: April 2025

April 8, 2025

The novel Village Weavers by Myriam J.A. Chancy is the overall winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.

Three authors compete for 2025 OCM Bocas Prize

April 6, 2025

Poster for the 2025 Bocas Lit Fest, 1–4 May, centred on the theme “Always Coming Home” as the festival programme for the event.

15th Bocas Lit Fest Is “Always Coming Home”

March 26, 2025

2025 Bocas Swanzy Award honours Journal of West Indian Literature

March 25, 2025

A graphic announcing the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature shortlists, displaying covers for 12 books from the literary award.

Fifteen authors compete for Caribbean’s biggest book prize

March 16, 2025

Book cover for “Unstitching Silence”, a March 2025 anthology of fiction and poetry by Caribbean writers on gender-based violence, featuring an illustration of two figures.

Bocas Book Bulletin: March 2025

March 1, 2025

Book cover for Kipling Plass by Berkley Wendell Semple, featuring a young person with a hat, a clock, a radio, a sugarcane stalk, and a small boat, as highlighted in the February 2025 Bocas Book Bulletin.

Bocas Book Bulletin: February 2025

February 6, 2025

Book cover of “How to Be Unmothered: A Trinidadian Memoir” by Camille U. Adams, featuring a silhouette filled with photographic fragments of faces and palm trees, a January 2025 Bocas Book Bulletin pick.

Bocas Book Bulletin: January 2025

January 1, 2025

Book cover for the award-winning Jamaican literature memoir “How to Say Babylon” by Safiya Sinclair, featuring a hand holding yellow scissors near black dreadlocks on a green background.

Jamaican Safiya Sinclair wins OCM Bocas Prize

September 10, 2024

Event flyer for a book signing of Passiontide by Monique Roffey on 28 June, 3:30–5:30 pm at The Writers’ Centre, St Clair.

Author Roffey signs Passiontide at The Writers Centre

June 23, 2024