Kei Miller

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Biography

Kei Miller, Jamaican born poet, novelist, essayist and blogger won the 2014 OCM Bocas non-fiction Prize and his Augustown, is the fiction winner of the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for fiction. His The Cartographer Tries to Map A Way to Zion won the 2014 Forward Prize for the best poetry collection and was shortlisted in a Costa Book Award.

Awards

2014 Forward Prizes for Best Collection Winner, 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Nonfiction Winner, 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Overall Winner, 2018 Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence in Arts & Letters, Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence, Forward Prizes for Poetry, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

Years Attended

2012, 2012 Adult's Festival Participant, 2014, 2014 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015, 2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2017, 2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2018, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant

Kei Miller

Author
Jamaica
Events Featuring Kei Miller
2022
Winners' Row
Festival Programme Event
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2022
BackChat 2022: Embracing Power, Making Change: Celebrating Caribbean LGBTQI+ Stories
Festival Programme Event
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Online
2022
Kei Miller | Bios And Bookmarks Season 7
Bios And Bookmarks Event
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Facebook Live
2019
Thursday Noir
Carifesta Event
Readings Event
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Grand Market
2018
Secret Lives: Inspired by the archives
Big Ideas, Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Discussion Event
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Old Fire Station
2018
Tribute: The legacies of Wayne Brown
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Discussion Event
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AV Room
2018
Secret Lives: Why literary archives matter
Big Ideas, Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
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Old Fire Station
2017
Untold Jamaica
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2017
Poetry Forward: celebrating the vitality of contemporary Caribbean poetry
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Readings Event
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Kaiso Blues Cafe
2017
Lit: On Fleek
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Open Mic Event
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Euphoria Lounge
2015
Writing in tongues
Big Ideas, Festival Programme, Lost and Found Event
Discussion Event
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Old Fire Station
2015
Poetry: where it begins
Festival Programme Event
Workshop Event
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2nd Floor Seminar Room
2015
Take Two: Landscapes of poetry
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2014
Celebrating the 2014 winners
Festival Programme, OCM Bocas Prize Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2014
To dub or not to dub
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
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AV Room
2012
Anxieties of influence: postcolonial writing and literary tradition
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
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Old Fire Station
2012
Kei Miller and Mervyn Morris
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2012
Form and freedom
Festival Programme Event
Workshop Event
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1st Floor Seminar Room
2012
Sharon Leach and Kei Miller
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
AV Room
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