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🗓️ Sun 12 May
🕗 8 pm
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The latest instalment of the Bocas Book Bulletin is out!
Featuring new releases by regional authors, news of upcoming events, awards and submission calls, and April’s bestsellers at Paper Based Bookshop
Check it out at: bocaslitfest.com/2024/05/05/boc…

“Only at Bocas you’ll find #DionneBrand & 3canal on the same stage!” A memorable night of words & music at BigBlackBox celebrating the 25th anniversary of ‘At the Full and Change of the Moon’ facebook.com/media/set/?set…
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Photos from Day 2 of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest are up! New Voices & New Talent Showcases; Fantastic Friday panels on Caribbean fantasy, folklore & speculative writing; Stand & Deliver; and a discussion on the future of newspapers: facebook.com/media/set/?set…
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'Caribbean literature has continued to emerge through these ladies as a powerful platform for post-colonial studies, addressing themes of identity, resistance, and cultural resilience.'  #bocas2024 Edwidge Danticat Safiya Sinclair Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧 Marchelle Farrell
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“I have to be able to walk the streets, I have to be able to smell the air, I have to be able to hear the roosters. I have to be able to immerse myself. Sometimes its from memories, sometimes it’s from going back.' Edwidge Danticat #bocas2024 T&T Newsday #Haiti newsday.co.tt/2024/05/04/edw…

'...Geetanjali Shree’s playful tone & exuberant wordplay result in a book that is engaging, funny, and utterly original, at the same time as being an urgent & timely protest against the destructive impact of borders & boundaries...' T&T Guardian #bocas2024 guardian.co.tt/article/intern…

'This oral tradition didn’t draw from one culture, it came from a multiplicity of cultures – not only the tone and the words, but the manner of telling the story...” - #RabindranathMaharaj .
More by Paula Lindo for T&T Newsday newsday.co.tt/2024/05/03/hos…

'A lot of our cadences, how we think, the bacchanalism on this soil, it lends itself to storytelling, in my view.” - Kevin Jared Hosein
More by Paula Lindo for T&T Newsday newsday.co.tt/2024/05/03/hos…

We celebrated the 30th anniversary of ‘Spirits in the Dark’ by Vincentian-Canadian H. Nigel Thomas, who discussed Caribbean-Canadian #LGBTQ + issues in an intimate, far-ranging conversation with
Angelique V. Nixon at #bocas2024 . More photos at facebook.com/bocaslitfest/p… HComm - POS, T&T

Thank you to the Bocas Lit Fest team for an amazing festival this year! Congrats also to my genius sister Nicole Sealey, and fiction winner Kevin Jared Hosein for the gift of their books in the world. I’m happy cyaan done to represent Jamaica in everything I do. Thank you so much! 🇯🇲✨

Last weekend, HOW TO SAY BABYLON won the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, given by my hero Edwidge Danticat. Everything I write is for the Caribbean, so this award means everything to me. Thank you so much to the Bocas Lit Fest judges for this incredible honour! 🇯🇲💚☀️✨

Thank you Bocas Lit Fest! Great time meeting new writers, catching up, talking about life and all things literary with Anthony Joseph, Kayo Chingonyi, Jeremy Poynting Peepal Tree Press, Shivanee Ramlochan and the Bocas Breakthrough Fellows. Great to see and hear Edwidge Danticat too.

“As a novelist, if you are faithful to that body and you are true to the characters that you write and think about, then it will be alright, even if it is not in the beginning.” Dionne Brand #bocas2024
newsday.co.tt/2024/04/30/aut… T&T Newsday emceesquared Disa conrad parris

For the love of literature. #bocas2024 Festival highlights:
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One Caribbean Media First Citizens NALIS

'Verses tore through issues of parenting, gang violence, systemic inequalities, West Indies cricket, corruption, and gender-based violence among other subjects.' First Citizens National Poetry Slam #bocas2024 newsday.co.tt/2024/04/29/the…
First Citizens T&T Newsday #the99percent