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
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For the love of literature. #bocas2024 Festival highlights:
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'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

'When I finished with the book I had been working on for five or six years, Son of Grace, the biography of Sir Frank Worrell, I emerged into a world that seemed to be a constant flurry of interactions.' - Author Vaneisa Baksh wired868.com/2024/04/27/van…

The Booker Prizes Tomb of Sand with the author Geetanjali Shree winner of the 2022 international booker prize for literature in Trinidad for the Bocas Lit Fest She was a thorough delight to interview and her book unlike anything I’ve read .
Tilted Axis The Booker Prizes 📚🇹🇹🇮🇳

#EdwidgeDanticat : says there is much more to Haiti than its political hardships, and encourages people to 'read Haitian literature, support the Haitian arts & keep an open mind about what was happening and the full complexity of the situation.' #bocas2024
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'AMID a falling consumption of traditional media, owing to several factors, one local columnist has suggested a special tool to help retain readership/viewership – empathy.' - Mark Lyndersay at #bocas2024 on the future of printed newspapers.

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Day 2 Bocas Lit Fest was full of magic realism.
GeetanjaliShree Carol Mitchell CarolineMackenzie

#bocas2024 was EVERYTHING!!!
Thank you Bocas Lit Fest! 🙌🏾

(All hail Litfests!)
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…At left 🇹🇹🇨🇦 author Rabindranath Maharaj and at right 🇹🇹 Prof Emeritus of English and the father of Caribbean Literary Criticism Kenneth Ramchand.
At Bocas Lit Fest I got to walk amongst giants.
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

A festival set to song (Dreadlocks).
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Mr. Rawkus gimme a meggie at Bocas Lit Fest last night

Dionne Brand Bocas Lit Fest: 'Art's work is to make life good...I don't make the kind of art to soothe anybody because I don't think that's the purpose of art. I think the purpose of art is to wake you up, ask you what is going on here...what are we doing.' youtube.com/watch?v=0n_zBZ…

Canisia Lubrin at Bocas Lit Fest: 'I want to hear the music of the insight', youtube.com/watch?v=-lD8bC…

Bocas Lit Fest Ordinary Notes So grateful to finally hear this brilliant and beautiful mind IRL. 💓✨