2025 Festival Schedule
What creative instruments does nature give us, to shape and reflect on the world we inhabit? Guide your environmentally informed writing, in any genre, to its next level in the company of two celebrated and award-winning UK-based poets and nonfiction writers. In partnership with the British Council.
2025 Festival Schedule
A special interactive workshop for teen poets! Poetry is a direct line to the human head and heart, whether written for the page or for performance. Guyana Prize-winning author Berkley Wendell Semple will help bring your drafts soaring to life, ready to express your verses as only you can. Requires registration via schools. In partnership […]
2025 Festival Schedule
A special interactive workshop for teen writers! Nailah Folami Imoja, winner of Barbados’s 2025 Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Competition, reads from her YA novel Jamaica’s Exam, followed by a hands-on session exploring how to turn the adventures and frustrations of teenage life into a literary narrative. Writing is a great tool for figuring yourself out! […]
2025 Festival Schedule
A special interactive workshop for teen fiction writers! A strong short story has the power to open worlds of imagination, to spark lively debates — so how do you get your own prose out of the starting block? Justin Haynes, the author of the new novel Ibis, shares pathways to harnessing your fiction’s ultimate powers. […]
2025 Festival Schedule
What responsibilities do we have to key figures, living or dead, as we strive to capture their essence? What about when the subject is our own selves? Nicholas Boggs, author of the hotly-anticipated biography Baldwin: A Love Story, guides you through the art of writing real lives, and turning the dry facts and dates of […]
2025 Festival Schedule
If you were going to name the world anew, how would you do it? The late Guyanese poet Martin Carter longed for freedom to write a “happier alphabet”. Come and create individual and collective alphabets of freedom with the award-winning poet Anthony Vahni Capildeo, author of Polkadot Wounds. Explore alphabet sequence forms like the abecedarian. […]
2025 Festival Schedule
Whether recent or ancient, the past keeps a profound hold on our writing lives. Join Trinidadian-Canadian Kai Thomas, author of the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize-winning novel In the Upper Country, in tackling the thorny sites of memory that inform short stories and novels in progress, and learn how to use the literary imagination […]
FAQs
When do you have workshops?
The Bocas Lit Fest now offers writing workshops throughout the year, not only during the annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest. Our in-person workshops are held at The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair, and our online workshops are facilitated via Zoom. To attend a workshop, you must book a ticket via our website and make advance payment. This page is updated whenever a new workshop opens for registration.
Who can register for a workshop?
Anyone! We programme a range of workshops, from general “getting started” writing workshops to advanced masterclasses with one-on-one feedback. Each workshop blurb will include specific details so you can decide if it’s the right development opportunity for you. We listen to participant feedback received in our workshop evaluations to book future in-demand workshops. Please feel free to contact us to request a workshop!
How do I know my registration form was submitted successfully?
An auto-email response is generated for every completed registration and sent to the email address you provided on the registration form. If you do not see an auto-response in your inbox, please check your spam/junk mail folders. If you have paid for the workshop on registration by credit card, then you will receive the workshop meeting link and login information immediately by email. If you have opted to pay by bank transfer, then we will wait on proof of payment before emailing the workshop information.
How can I pay for my workshop ticket(s)?
Each registration form lists payment options and deadlines. When completing registration, you are required to indicate your preferred method of payment. We have a few payment options:
- Advance Bank Deposit or Online Transfer payable to Bocas Lit Fest via Republic Bank Ltd: Account Number 180484065001. You are required to email a copy of the deposit/transfer receipt to: [email protected]
- Credit card payment via WiPay Caribbean online merchant services.
- If you would like to pay with cash or cheque, then you can make an appointment to come into The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair to make payment.
Is my workshop fee payment refundable?
All workshop fee payments are non-refundable and due in advance of the workshop/event dates. Registration tickets are not valid without accompanying proof of payment.
What does a registration Waiting List mean?
This means that our workshop has reached capacity and your registration attempt has been assigned to a waiting list. Once the payment deadline for registrations has elapsed, remaining workshop spaces are offered to the waiting list and are confirmed via receipts of fee payment on a first-come, first-served basis. You will be notified via email of space availability and /or phone call.
What does my workshop reservation or ticket look like?
Each registration is assigned a unique ticket number and barcode which is auto-generated and sent to your email address. In cases where this is not applicable, you will receive a simple email confirmation.