Baroness Susan Greenfield
Baroness Susan Greenfield, is a leading British scientist, writer and broadcaster and a Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College. Her research explores how the 21st century environment affects brain development, a subject explored in her latest book Mind Change: How digital technologies are leaving their mark on our brains.
Kenneth ‘Ken’ Gordon
Kenneth ‘Ken’ Gordon, former broadcaster, media entrepreneur, captain of industry, senator, Chairman of the West Indies Cricket Board and Chairman of the Integrity Commision, Trinidad and Tobago, his 1999 memoir, Getting it Write: Winning Caribbean Press Freedom, was published by Ian Randle Publishers.
Danielle Delon
Danielle Delon, Director of the NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest, is an author, editor and publisher. Her books include Bridges of Trinidad and Tobago: Side to Side and The Letters of Margaret Mann.
Jo-Anne Ferreira
Jo-Anne Ferreira, is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. Her research interests include the history of Portuguese language and culture in the Caribbean and South American French Creole varieties (Trinidadian, Venezuela and Brazilian).
Alvin Daniell
Alvin Daniell, is the composer of several Trinidad and Tobago hit calypsos, an arts television presenter and well known adjudicator of calypso, steelpan and singing competitions throughout the Caribbean.
Carolyn Cooper
Carolyn Cooper, Professor Emerita, UWI, Mona, Jamaica. She is the author of two influential books on Jamaican popular culture, Sound Clash (2004) and Noises in the Blood (1993), and the editor of Global Reggae (2012). She is a broadcaster, Jamaica Gleaner columnist and chaired the non-fiction panel of the OCM Bocas Prize 2015.
Austin Clarke
Austin Clarke, Barbados born, Canada based, is a celebrated novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Rogers Communication Writers Trust Prize, the W.O. Mitchell Prize Giller Prize for fiction, the Trillium Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Best Book Award for Canada and the Caribbean region and the Commonwealth Writers […]
Roy Cape
Roy Cape, born in Trinidad in 1942, is an internationally renowned calypso and soca musician and bandleader. He has toured widely, played on hundreds of recordings, and released eight albums with his band Roy Cape All Stars. He is co-author of his biography, Roy Cape: A Life on the Calypso and Soca Bandstand.
Tobias S. Buckell
Born in the Caribbean, Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times bestselling and World Fantasy Award-winning author. His novels and almost one hundred stories have been translated into nineteen different languages. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. He […]
Bridget Brereton
Bridget Brereton is Professor Emerita of history at UWI, St. Augustine, and author of Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad and A History of Modern Trinidad, among other books. She was chair of the non-fiction judging panel for the inaugural OCM Bocas Prize in 2011, and again in 2020.
Laurence Breiner
Laurence Breiner is Professor of English at Boston University. Author of An Introduction to West Indian Poetry and Black Yeats: Eric Roach and the Politics of Caribbean Poetry as well as numerous articles and reviews on Caribbean literature, he is currently working on Jamaican performance poetry. He chaired the poetry panel of the 2020 OCM […]
Shane Book
Shane Book, Canadian poet and filmmaker of Trinidadian descent, is a graduate of New York University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award. His most recent poetry collection is Congotronics.
Rhoda Bharath
Rhoda Bharath is a Trinidadian writer, teacher, and political and cultural blogger. Her debut book The Ten Day’s Executive and Other Stories was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2015.
Edward Baugh
Edward Baugh, is Professor Emeritus of English, UWI, Mona. His scholarly and critical publications on West Indian literature include: Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision (Longman, 1978), Derek Walcott (Cambridge, 2006) and Frank Collymore: a Biography (Ian Randle, 2009). His three collections of poetry include, most recently, Black Sand: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree, 2013). Based at the Cave […]
Funso Aiyejina
Funso Aiyejina is the former Deputy Festival Director of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest and a former member of the board of directors of the Bocas Lit Fest. He is the former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine and now Professor Emeritus. He is […]
Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi, British poet of Nigerian parentage, celebrates the written and spoken word. Her fourth collection, Telling Tales (Canongate, 2014), an exhilarating, multicultural remix of The Canterbury Tales, is shortlisted for the 2014 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. She is a member of the poetry panel of the OCM Bocas Prize 2015.
Clare Alexander
Clare Alexander, is an eminent British literary agent and former publisher. In 1995, she was the editor of the winners of the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize and the Whitbread prize, the first editor ever to achieve this hat trick. The recipient of many awards as a literary agent and publisher, she chairs the fiction […]