Desiree Seebaran

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Biography

Desiree Seebaran is a Trinidadian writer and editor. She is an alum of the Cropper Foundation Residential Workshop for Writers (2010) and the inaugural Moko Magazine Poetry Masterclass (2018). Her work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Small Axe Literary Competition (poetry) and the 2017 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contest. Her poem ‘Picong’ won the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for poetry. She is a finalist for the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.

Awards

2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry Winner, Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize

Years Attended

2014, 2014 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015, 2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant

Desiree Seebaran

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Desiree Seebaran
2024
Take Three
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2023
New Talent Showcase + Stand and Deliver: Part 1
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Open Mic, Performance, Poetry Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 12:30 pm
Abercromby Street Arcade
2021
Winners’ Row
Festival Programme Event
Event Date:
2020
Home and away: new short fiction by Zalika Reid-Benta and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Online
2020
Revolution time
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Online
2020
Readers Wanted: Readings on TTT
Festival Programme, Online Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
TTT
2019
Take Two: Muli Amaye (A House with No Angels) and Geoffrey Philp (Garvey’s Ghost)
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2015
Small Axe Literary Competition showcase
Festival Programme, New Talent, Words Alive Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
1st Floor Seminar Room
2014
Who’s Next?
Festival Programme, Who’s Next? Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station