In 1962, in the midst of the Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama, a literary conference erupted. Writers from Scotland, England, the United States, Germany, and India put on such spirited debates, the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference refers to that first meeting as “”the infamous Writers’ Conference of 1962”. To commemorate fifty years of exciting exchanges about words, books, and ideas, the EWWC took its show on the road in 2012 and 2013. The NGC Bocas Lit Fest was one of fourteen sites around the world hosting EWWC events, and our panel of international writers considered the theme Should Literature Be Political?