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Bocas in the Press

Each time our festival is mentioned within the press, we document it here. If you find an article that you think should be added, please let us know! 2024  Former lecturer Dr Rahim’s first novel to be launched at UWI. Loop News. 05 January 2024. https://tt.loopnews.com/content/former-uwi-lecturer-dr-rahims-final-novel-be-launched-uwi Jennifer Rahim’s final novel ‘Goodbye Bay’ to be launched

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2020 Festival Coverage

Our 10-year Commemorative Poster by the artist Jackie Hinkson

100 numbered, signed copies of this collectible 2020 festival poster are available! Marking 10 years of the Bocas Lit Fest, our anniversary poster depicts Jackie Hinkson’s specially commissioned drawing of the iconic Old Fire Station in downtown Port of Spain, buttressed by the National Library, the home of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. About the

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Conrad Parris

Conrad Parris is an actor, voice talent and media personality with over 20 years experience. He started his career on stage with the Trinidad Theatre Workshop in 1995 with the New Actors Programme, helmed by Bernard Hazell. While there, he made his debut in Immortelle Theatre Company’s production of “Santa Claus, Mixed Nuts and Fruitcake”;

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Awards

Richard Georges wins the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize

A poetry collection that presents us with the aftermath of 2017’s catastrophic Hurricane Irma, taking us way beyond the ruins left by the storm, has now taken home the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Epiphaneia, by Trinidad-born, British Virgin Islands–resident Richard Georges, is the third book of poetry to win the most prestigious

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NGC Bocas Lit Fest Survival Kit #1
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Announcing Survival Kit #1

As people across Trinidad and Tobago and around the world adapt to the COVID-19 “lockdown”, many have turned to books, music, and films to occupy their homebound hours. All of us at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest believe it’s vital to keep our imaginations nourished and healthy in these anxious times. So we’re pleased to

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Awards

Announcing the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize Shortlist

Books by three writers spanning the region and its diasporas have been shortlisted for the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Internationally considered the leading literary award for Caribbean writers, the OCM Bocas Prize recognises books in three genre categories — poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction — published by

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2019 Festival Coverage

The 2019 OCM Bocas Prize Shortlist

Books by three writers from Trinidad and Tobago have made the shortlist for the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. This is the first time in the history of the prize, first awarded in 2011, that writers from a single Caribbean country have won all three genre categories, forming

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James Aboud

James Christopher Aboud is a poet and a lawyer.  His book “Lagahoo Poems” (Peepal Tree Press) was awarded the inaugural James Rodway Poetry Prize, offered by Derek Walcott’s Rat Island Foundation in 2004.  He has also published “The Stone Rose” (Paria Publishers) and been included in various regional and international literary journals and anthologies. He studied

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Canisia Lubrin

Canisia Lubrin’s books include Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst. Lubrin’s work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Derek Walcott Prize, the Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Stars prize, and others. Also a finalist for the Trillium Award for Poetry and

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2018 Festival Coverage

T&T’s Jennifer Rahim wins OCM Bocas Prize

Curfew Chronicles, a collection of linked short stories by writer Jennifer Rahim of Trinidad and Tobago, has been named the winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the most prestigious international award for Caribbean writing. Evelyn O’Callaghan, chair of the fiction judges of the prize, made the announcement at a ceremony on

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