Roslyn Carrington
Roslyn Carrington is a freelance writer and novelist based in Trinidad. She publishes literary novels under her own name and romance novels under the name Simona Taylor.
Kerry Young
Kerry Young, a British writer born in Jamaica to a Chinese father and mother of mixed Chinese-African heritage, is the author of Pao (2011), Gloria (2013) and Show Me a Mountain (2016). https://www.kerryyoung.co.uk/
Heather Rodney Diaz
Heather Rodney Diaz is a Trinidadian author of romance fiction. Her debut novel Island Pursuits (2012) was published by Crimson Romance.
Elise Dillsworth
Literary agent Elise Dillsworth set up her agency in 2012. She represents literary and general fiction and non-fiction. Her authors have won, been longlisted and shortlisted for numerous prizes including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Caine Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Dublin Literary Award, the OCM Bocas Prize […]
Anthony de Verteuil
Anthony de Verteuil, C.S.Sp., is the former principal of St. Mary’s College, a historian, and a renowned academic who has produced several books on the history of Trinidad and Tobago.
Al Ramsawak
Al Ramsawak has written over 300 children’s stories. He is also an artist, folklorist and recipient of the Media Award 1997 for the best television documentary, the President’s Humming Bird Silver Medal Award 2004 for folklore/culture, and is the story time columnist for the Sunday Guardian newspaper in the Sun Shine children’s magazine
Shruti Debi
Shruti Debi is a literary agent with Aitken Alexander Associates, based in New Delhi.
Sharon Leach
Sharon Leach is a Jamaican writer and editor of the Jamaica Observer’s “Bookends” section. She is the author of the short fiction collection What You Can’t Tell Him (2006), and Love it When You Come, Hate it When You Go.
Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson is a writer and cultural researcher and author of The Illustrated Story of Pan (2011). He was a research fellow at the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and winner of a 2011 Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Award for Excellence.
Joseph O’Neil
Joseph O’Neill is an Irish novelist based in New York City. His novels include Netherland (2008), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Georgia Popplewell
Georgia Popplewell is a writer/editor and media producer and managing director of the international citizen media project Global Voices. She has worked in independent media since 1989. She started her career at the pioneering Trinidad and Tobago television production company Banyan and has worked on productions such as the Nickelodeon TV series Gullah Gullah Island, […]
Chika Unigwe
Chika Unigwe is a Nigerian writer based in Belgium. She writes in both Dutch and English. Her novel, On Black Sisters’ Street, was published in 2009.
Anita Sethi
Anita Sethi was born in Manchester, UK and is author of the acclaimed book, I Belong Here: a Journey Along the Backbone of Britain (Bloomsbury). I Belong Here has been described as “a magnificent and redemptive achievement” by The Bookseller, “a memoir of rare power” by the Guardian, and “an amazing odyssey: inspiring, powerful, encouraging and incredibly brave” by the Independent. The Sunday Times review wrote: “punchier and more […]
Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas is the Cuban-American author of The Tower of the Antilles, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award, among other honours. Her novels include Ruins and Days of Awe, which was a Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year. Her poetry chapbook, This is What Happened in Our Other Life, was both a […]
Zee Edgell
Zee Edgell was a Belizean writer. Her first novel, Beka Lamb, won the Fawcett Society Book Prize in 1982. She won the Canute Brodhurst Prize for her short story, My Uncle Theophilus, published in the Caribbean Writer, 1999.
Teju Cole
Teju Cole is a novelist, photographer, critic, curator, and the author of five books. He was the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine from 2015 until 2019. His novel, Open City, was featured on numerous book of the year lists and won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York City Book Award for Fiction, […]
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is professor emeritus of genetics at University College London, author of several popular science books and winner of the Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal Society. He presented the 2012 NGC Bocas Lit Fest Big Idea Lecture from his book Darwin’s Island (2009).
Satnarayan (“Sat”) Maharaj
Satnarayan (“Sat”) Maharaj was a religious and cultural leader in Trinidad and Tobago. He was the Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, the major Hindu organisation in the multi-ethnic society. A controversial and often criticized figure, Sat was also hailed as a champion of Hindus and Indians in the country and has been […]
Sarah White
Sarah White, joint recipient of the 2013 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award with her late husband John La Rose, started life as a science historian and worked for fifteen years as the Soviet Science consultant to the New Scientist magazine. In 1966 she and her partner, the late Trinidadian poet and activist John La Rose, founded New Beacon Books, the […]
Ruth Borthwick
Ruth Borthwick was the Chief Executive of Arvon, the leading UK charitable organisation promoting creative writing. She is former Head of Literature and Talks at the Southbank Centre, London.
Rupert Roopnaraine
Rupert Roopnaraine is a Guyanese writer, art critic, filmmaker, former cricketer, and political leader of the WPA. His essay collection The Sky’s Wild Noise is the winner of the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction.
Roland Watson-Grant
Roland Watson-Grant is a Jamaican writer, advertising copywriter and creative director. He started his literary career by writing thirty-second short stories for radio and television in Jamaica and in 2011 he was awarded the Lightship International Literary Prize in England. Sketcher is his debut novel.
Roland Gulliver
Roland Gulliver is the Director of the Toronto International Festival of Authors, taking up the position in February 2020. He is one of the leading international figures in the literature sector with over 12 years’ experience at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where he was Associate Director. His programming explores the potential of the live […]
Robert Antoni
Robert Antoni was born in the US of Trinidadian parents and grew up in the Bahamas. His first novel, Divina Trace (Quartet, 1991) received the Commonwealth Writers Prize. His other books are Blessed is the Fruit (Faber), My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales (Faber), Carnival (Faber), which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2006, and As […]
Rivka Galchen
Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer. Her novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008) won the William J. Saroyan International Prize. In 2010 the New Yorker named her one of the 20 best American writers under 40.
Richard Drayton
Richard Drayton is a Guyana-born historian and currently Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London. He is author of Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the “Improvement” of the World (Yale University Press, 2000). He was the chair of the non-fiction judges for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize.
Ralph Maraj
Ralph Maraj is a former politician, Cabinet minister and teacher, and also a playwright and actor, having distinguished himself in the lead role of the film Bim.
Rahul Bhattacharya
Rahul Bhattacharya is an Indian writer. His first book, Pundits in Pakistan (2005), won the Vodaphone Crossword Book Award, and his novel The Sly Company of People Who Care (2011) was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra is an Indian literary and political essayist whose writing has been widely anthologized. He has published several books, including From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia (featured at the 2013 NGC Bocas Lit Fest). He is a recipient of the 2014 Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction. https://www.pankajmishra.com/
Opal Palmer Adisa
Opal Palmer Adisa has 20 published books to her credit, and her poetry, stories, essays and articles on a wide range of subjects have been collected in over 400 journals, anthologies and other publications. She just completed the authorized children’s picture book of Portia Simpson Miller, the first female Prime Minister of Jamaica, entitled Portia […]