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Shivanee Ramlochan

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Biography

Shivanee Ramlochan’s first book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 People’s Choice T&T Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Shivanee was shortlisted for the 2018 Bridport Prize for Poetry. “The Red Thread Cycle”, from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry, and was on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Find her work online at www.novelniche.net, shivaneeramlochan.com, @novelniche

Awards

2017 Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Shortlist, Forward Prizes for Poetry

Years Attended

2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015 South Festival Participant, 2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016 South Festival Participant, 2017 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Adult's Festival Participant, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Bocas UK Tour, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Shivanee Ramlochan

Author, Poet
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Shivanee Ramlochan
2025
BOOK LAUNCH: The Cropper Foundation presents Writing For Our Lives
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Life Stories, Poetry Event
Event Date: May 3, 2025 @ 3:30 pm
Old Fire Station
2025
Take Two: Anu Lakhan and Alycia Pirmohamed
Festival Programme Event
Poetry, Take Two Event
Event Date: May 4, 2025 @ 1:30 pm
Old Fire Station
2025
BackChat: Queer Resilience: Celebrating Caribbean LGBTQI+ Voices, hosted by CAISO: Sex & Gender Justice
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Performance, Poetry Event
Event Date: May 1, 2025 @ 9:00 pm
Kaiso Blues Cafe
2023
Tales of Root, Silk & Bone
NGC Bocas Youth Fest Event
Fiction, Poetry Event
Event Date: October 21, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
DCFA Building, Lecture Room 1
2023
Take Three: Desiree C. Bailey, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa and Samantha Thornhill
Festival Programme Event
Poetry Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 3:00 pm
Old Fire Station
2022
Bocas UK Tour 2022
Bocas UK Tour Event
Event Date: October 26, 2022 @ 8:00 am
United Kingdom
2022
A World Made of Stories
Festival Programme Event
Event Date:
2022
BackChat 2022: Embracing Power, Making Change: Celebrating Caribbean LGBTQI+ Stories
Festival Programme Event
Event Date:
Online
2021
Cereus Blooms At Night At 25
Festival Programme Event
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