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Lisa Allen-Agostini

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Biography

Lisa Allen-Agostini is a writer and editor from Trinidad and Tobago. Her books include The Bread the Devil Knead (Myriad, 2021); the young adult novels Home Home (Papillote Press, 2018; Delacourte Press, 2020), a finalist for the CODE Burt Award for Caribbean YA Literature, and The Chalice Project (Macmillan Caribbean, 2008); and the collection of poems Swallowing the Sky (Cane Arrow Press, 2015). She co-edited the short fiction collection Trinidad Noir (Akashic Books, 2008), and voiced the audible.com audiobook version of her story in the collection “Pot Luck”. A journalist, she has worked for all three Trinidad and Tobago national newspapers. She has been awarded as a journalist, fiction writer and poet and her work is widely published.

Awards

2017 CODE Burt Award for Caribbean Young Adult Literature Finalist

Years Attended

2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016 Children’s Festival Participant, 2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2019 Children’s Festival Storyteller, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2021 Featured Speaker, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Lisa Allen-Agostini

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Lisa Allen-Agostini
2025
The Books That Made Me: Lovelace Special Edition
Festival Programme Event
Fiction Event
Event Date: May 4, 2025 @ 2:30 pm
Old Fire Station
2025
Take Two: Lisa Allen-Agostini and Kai Thomas
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Take Two Event
Event Date: May 2, 2025 @ 3:00 pm
Old Fire Station
2023
You Got Jokes, with Lisa Allen-Agostini
NGC Bocas Youth Fest Event
Workshop Event
Event Date: October 20, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
DCFA Building, Lecture Room 2
2023
NGC Bocas Youth Career Fair
NGC Bocas Youth Fest Event
Career Fair Event
Event Date: October 20, 2023 @ 10:00 am
DCFA Building, Lecture Room 3
2023
Get Creative! Writing Workshops Series with Lisa Allen Agostini | Fiction
JB Fernandes Memorial Trust, NGC Bocas Youth Fest, We Lit, Workshops Event
Workshop Event
Event Date: August 18, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Online - Zoom
2023
Get Creative! Writing Workshops Series with Lisa Allen Agostini | Non-fiction
JB Fernandes Memorial Trust, NGC Bocas Youth Fest, We Lit, Workshops Event
Workshop Event
Event Date: August 17, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Online - Zoom
2023
Get Creative! Writing Workshops Series with Lisa Allen Agostini | Poetry
JB Fernandes Memorial Trust, NGC Bocas Youth Fest, We Lit, Workshops Event
Workshop Event
Event Date: August 16, 2023 @ 4:00 pm
Online - Zoom
2023
Sons of the Soil: Selvon Meets Stalin
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Performance Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Big Black Box
2022
Voices of history, Part One
Season of Independence Event
Event Date: September 8, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
2021
Love Is War: Lisa Allen-Agostini & Cherie Jones
Festival Programme Event
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