Sterling Henderson
Sterling Henderson is a well known journalist with over 15 years experience. His life experience, which includes living in New York, Jamaica and TT, leads to the launch of his debut album When Soca Full Meh Mouth.
Kumar Mahabir
Dr Kumar Mahabir is an Assistant Professor at the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT). He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Florida and his BA and M.Phil. degrees in Literatures in English from UWI, St Augustine. Mahabir is the author of twelve (12) books including two national bestsellers Caribbean East Indian Recipes and Medicinal and Edible Plants. His most […]
M. James Cooper
M James Cooper was born in Trinidad & Tobago. A graduate of Temple University with a B.A. in English Education & African Studies, his writing can be found in Moko Magazine & Black Issues. His collection Tomorrow, Please God: The Seven Narratives, is described as African centered, steeped in Caribbean folklore & cultural narrative styles.
Amanda T. McIntyre
Amanda T. McIntyre is a feminist writer, pan-Africanist, cultural activist and co-director of Caribbean feminist group WOMANTRA. Her most recently published work includes the short stories Rainy Season, and Petite Careme, published in Womanspeak; Journal of Writing and Art by Caribbean Women.
Shakirah Bourne
Shakirah Bourne, Barbadian writer and filmmaker, is a 2018 CODE Burt Award Finalist. Her self-published collection of stories In Time of Need won the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Excellence in Literary Fiction. Her newest manuscript won the Prime Minister’s Award at the Frank Collymore Literary Awards. Her film adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s […]
Elizabeth J. Jones
Elizabeth J. Jones has published history books and numerous articles about Bermuda. Her short story The Ceremony appears in the Peekash publication New Worlds Old Ways, an anthology of speculative fiction, edited by Karen Lord. Her first YA novel A Dark Iris is a finalist for the 2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult Caribbean […]
Loretta Collins Klobah
Loretta Collins Klobah’s first book The Twelve Foot Neon Woman received the 2011 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize in the Forward Prize series. Her second book Ricantations (Peepal Tree Press, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a National Poetry Day selection. It was longlisted for […]
Freetown Collective
At the centre of Freetown Collective are Muhammad Muwakil and Lou Lyons; poets, lyricists and musicians. Joined onstage by the distinct voices and harmonies of three young women, often affectionately referred to as “the Trinity” or “the Freetown Lionesses”, the group’s motto is “a whole world to change.” Freetown uses music to bridge the gap […]
Helen Batson
Helen Williams Batson, pen-name ‘Khadine’ is a Theatre Practitioner, Actress, Performance Writer, Storyteller and Educator. Ms. Williams Batson is the Founder & Artistic Director of OMACA, formerly ‘Livewire’ a Children’s Performing & Developmental Company, with the projected goal statement, ‘producing gems.’ In 2017 Helen Williams Batson made her debut in her premiere solo performance ‘Shades […]
Kess the Illusionist
Majeed Karim
Majeed Karim is a 19 year old Junior Performance Poet with The 2 Cents Movement. He works with the organization Create Future Good and is also a member of the creative group 6Geng, founded in St. George’s College by him and his friends.
Aisha Acres
Aisha Acres is the founder of Connect the Dots, a consulting agency specialising in business strategy development and financial literacy education. The Money Adventures of Mike Murray and Friends is her first publication.
Kyle Hernandez
Kyle Hernandez is a creatively maladjusted writer and performer. He holds a BA in Theatre Arts (first class honors) and is the winner of The Motif Poetry Slam in Edinburgh, Scotland. Hernandez has leveraged his experience as a poet and award winning actor to write and direct productions all over the Caribbean. His published work […]
Everard McBain
Everard is a freelance graphic designer who operates under the brand GemGfx. He provides award winning graphic design support for several companies both locally and abroad. His most recent noteworthy design was the winning brand for the Tobago Clean Green Safe Serene campaign. He has been in love with drawing, comics and animation since he was a child. When […]
DH Gibbs
Hailing from her native Trinidad and Tobago, Author, Illustrator, and lifelong bibliophile D.H. Gibbs found a way to blend her creative abilities with her love of the written word. From her early days, she spent many waking moments crafting tales, honing her graphic design skills, or dreaming up elaborate vacation plans to satisfy her love […]
Jade Drakes
Jade Drakes is a Trinidadian jeweller with a fondness for all things craft and animal, especially the dog. She studied Metalsmithing and Theatre at Slippery Rock University, where she learned to work with animal horn and bone under Professor Robert J. Bruya – ‘The Road Kill King’. She went on to study Bench Jewellery and […]
Shara Mccallum
From Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry, published in the US and UK: Madwoman (longlisted for the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize), The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems, This Strange Land, Song of Thieves, and The Water Between Us. Her poems have appeared widely in the US, Europe, the […]
Tracey Baptiste
Tracey Baptiste is the New York Times bestselling author of MINECRAFT: THE CRASH and the popular JUMBIES series, including THE JUMBIES, RISE OF THE JUMBIES, and THE JUMBIE GOD’S REVENGE. Her recent books include LOOKING FOR A JUMBIE, AFRICAN ICONS: TEN PEOPLE WHO SHAPED HISTORY and BECAUSE CLAUDETTE. She teaches in the MFA program at […]
Janet Smyth
Janet has over 20 years of experience working with book festivals and cultural organisations including the Edinburgh International Book Festival and National Galleries Scotland. She now works as a freelance programmer and consultant with Bath Children’s Lit Fest, International Literature Festival Dublin, Toronto International Festival of Authors and the Boswell Book Festival.
Alex Wheatle
Alex Wheatle MBE is a British novelist of Jamaican heritage. His first novel Brixton Rock appeared in 1999, he won the London Arts Board Writers Prize in 2000. His debut YA novel Liccle Bit (2015) was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal. Crongton Knights, the 2016 follow-up novel won the Guardian’s Children’s fiction award, the Renaissance Quiz Writers’ Choice […]
Mervyn Taylor
Mervyn Taylor is a Trinidad-born poet who works in visual art. He has taught at the New School and in the New York City public school system and is the author of six books of poetry, including No Back Door (2010), which received the Paterson Award for Literary Excellence, The Waving Gallery (2014) Voices Carry […]
Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison has received many honours, including a 2018 Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction, Jamaica’s Musgrave Medal (1999), and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (1987). She is Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan, where she was the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afro American Studies. Her many books include her Collected Poems, […]
Erna Brodber
Erna Brodber, activist, scholar, and writer is a 2017 winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize. She has also won a Prince Claus Award (2006), Jamaica’s Musgrave Medal (1999), and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (1989). Her latest novel is Nothing’s Mat (2014).
Muli Amaye
Muli Amaye is the author of A House With No Angels (Crocus, 2019). Her short fiction is published in many anthologies and journals. She is the Coordinator of the MFA Creative Writing Programme at The University of The West Indies, Trinidad. She has taught creative writing in education and the community for over 20 years. […]
Nicholas Laughlin
Nicholas Laughlin is festival and programme director of the Bocas Lit Fest and the former editor of Caribbean Beat and The Caribbean Review of Books. He has published two books of poems,The Strange Years of My Life (2015) and Enemy Luck (2019), and a book of genre-fluid “microtexts”, Bird Machine (2024). He is editor of […]
Derron Sandy
Derron Sandy is a Trinbagonian spoken word poet, and the 2021 First Citizens National Poetry Slam champion. He was longlisted for the Bocas Lit Fest’s Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize in 2021. He is artistic director of youth spoken word and theatre organisations the 2Cents Movement and the Quays Foundation. His debut chapbook […]
Katia D. Ulysse
Katia D. Ulysse is a Haiti-born fiction writer whose short stories, essays, and Pushcart Prize–nominated poetry appear in numerous literary journals and anthologies. She has taught in Baltimore public schools and served as Goucher College’s Spring 2017 Kratz Writer in Residence. Drifting is her short story collection. Mouths Don’t Speak is her latest novel.
Bhoendradatt Tewarie
Bhoendradatt Tewarie is a former Minister of Planning and the Economy in the government of Trinidad and Tobago, and former Principal of the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. He is a Naipaul scholar.
Mere Taito
Mere Taito is from the Polynesian island of Rotuma near Fiji. Her work appears in several Pacific Island anthologies and New Zealand literary journals. Her poem The quickest way to trap a folktale, which addresses Rotuman intellectual property and ownership, was recently published in Manifesto Aetearoa, an anthology of political poetry. She now lives in […]
Nestor Sullivan
Nestor Sullivan, MA Carnival Studies, is former Captain and Manager of Pamberi Steel Orchestra, Chairman Eastern Region and VP & Public Relations Officer of the Steelband Association (Pan Trinbago), and Operations Manager of T&T National Steel Orchestra. He has played in and arranged steelbands tours in Europe, Asia, the UK and USA, and speaks internationally […]