Nicholas Laughlin

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Biography

Nicholas Laughlin is festival and programme director of the Bocas Lit Fest and the former editor of Caribbean Beat and The Caribbean Review of Books. He has published two books of poems,The Strange Years of My Life (2015) and Enemy Luck (2019), and a book of genre-fluid “microtexts”, Bird Machine (2024). He is editor of a collection of early essays by C.L.R. James, Letters from London (2003); a revised and expanded edition of V.S. Naipaul’s family correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son (2009); and the anthology So Many Islands (2018). He is co-director of Alice Yard, a contemporary art collective based in Port of Spain.

Years Attended

2011, 2011 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2012, 2012 Adult's Festival Participant, 2013, 2013 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2014, 2014 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2014 South Festival Participant, 2015, 2015 Bocas Abroad Participant, 2018, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Bocas UK Tour, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2026 Adult's Festival Participant

Nicholas Laughlin

Author, Author/Speaker
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Nicholas Laughlin
2026
2026 Festival Welcome
Festival Programme Event
Presentation Event
Event Date: May 1, 2026 @ 10:00 am
Old Fire Station
2025
Big Ideas: The Politics of "Home"
Festival Programme Event
Big Ideas Event
Event Date: May 2, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Old Fire Station
2024
Welcome to the Festival!
Festival Programme Event
Social Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2023
The Swanzy Diaries
Festival Programme Event
Book Launch Event
Event Date: April 30, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
AV Room
2023
2023 Festival Welcome
Festival Programme Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 10:00 am
Old Fire Station
2022
Winners' Row
Festival Programme Event
Event Date:
2020
How We Remember: Reflections on the 175th anniversary of Indian Arrival Day in TT
Festival Programme, Online Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Facebook Live
2019
Reading beyond boundaries
Big Ideas, Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2018
Take Two: Adalber Salas Hernández and Michael Kelleher
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2018
An Island State Of Mind: So Many Islands
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2015
Not That Caribbean: New Writing from the Antilles
Bocas Abroad, Miami Book Fair Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Miami Book Fair
2015
Voices of the Caribbean: New Poetry
Bocas Abroad, Miami Book Fair Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Miami Book Fair
2014
A reading by Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw, chaired by Nicholas Laughlin
Bocas South Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
SAPA
2014
Tanya Shirley in conversation with Nicholas Laughlin
Bocas South Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
SAPA
2014
Bringing the Past to Life
Bocas South Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
SAPA
2014
A Midwinter’s Tale, dir. Kenneth Branagh
Festival Programme Event
Film Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2014
Private Romeo, dir. Alan Brown
Festival Programme Event
Film Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2014
Shakespeare, our contemporary
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2014
Hamlet, dir. Kenneth Branagh
Festival Programme Event
Film Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2014
A.J. Seymour at 100
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2013
“The unity is submarine”
CaribLit, Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2013
Ian McDonald in conversation with Nicholas Laughlin
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2013
Teju Cole in conversation with Nicholas Laughlin
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2012
Kei Miller and Mervyn Morris
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2012
Andre Bagoo and Vahni Capildeo
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2012
Anne Walmsley on Caribbean publishing in the 1970s
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2012
What is Caribbean art?: why we need art history
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2011
India Up Close: A Candid Look at the Subcontinent
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2011
Marlon James and Tiphanie Yanique
Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2011
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down: How to Write a Book Review
Festival Programme Event
Workshop Event
Event Date:
2nd Floor Seminar Room
A Zoom-style grid of six writers during an NGC Bocas Lit Fest event, with names labelled under each participant as they discuss a reading list for Indian Arrival Day.
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