More Than A Literary Festival

Shivanee Ramlochan

Author, Poet
Trinidad & Tobago

Bio

Trinidadian poet, critic, and book blogger. Her 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

Forward Prizes for Poetry2017 Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection Shortlist

Years Attended

2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2015 South 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
Festival Programme Event
Poetry Event
April 28, 2023
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
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