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Trinidad has a great literary festival every year, did you know?
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April 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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💐Congratulations @myriamjachancy.bsky.social!

Winner 🏆2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Fiction!

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April 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Concepts of “arrival” and “survival” are celebrated and interrogated in the latest books by @drbrowne.bsky.social (A Sense of Arrival) and @alexispauline.bsky.social (Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde).
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@dukepress.bsky.social @fsgbooks.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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June’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, news of awards and prizes, and May’s bestsellers at Paper Based Bookshop: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...
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June 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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"Precise rereadings and brilliant seeing" characterise Salvage: Readings From the Wreck by Dionne Brand, Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature in the nonfiction category, introduced by the Judging Chair of the panel, Rinaldo Walcott.
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May 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social! 🏆

She has won the 15th annual award for her book, Village Weavers (@tinhouse.bsky.social)

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May 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Heralding her as a "master weaver", Erna Brodber, Chief Judge, announces the winner of the 2025 OCM Prize for Caribbean Literature, Village Weavers
by @myriamjachancy.bsky.social

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May 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Thanking her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, the market women of Haiti, and the enduring spirit of Haiti itself, @myriamjachancy.bsky.social accepts the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
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May 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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"Depth of precision and openness of sound" are hallmarks of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature winner in the poetry category, Polkadot Wounds (@carcanet.bsky.social) by @anthonyvahni.bsky.social, introduced by Chair of the Poetry Judges, @alexispauline.bsky.social

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May 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Poets Anthony Vahni Capildeo (Polkadot Wounds, winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry) and Lawrence Scott (Looking for Cazabon) explore journeys through landscapes of memory, history and longing. Hosted by @michaelkelleher.bsky.social
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April 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Am looking forward to this! Hope to see some of you there..
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bocaslitfest.bsky.social Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · Apr 13
In her new novel A House for Miss Pauline, @dmccaulay.bsky.social brings to life a 99-year-old Jamaican woman whose house in rural Mason Hall conceals many secrets — from the distant and the not-too-distant past.
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April 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Poets @abagoo.bsky.social (Midnight Bestiaries) and Linzey Corridon (West of West Indian) explore questions of public & private, human & animal, & the concurrent dangers & delights of intimacy in their new books.
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April 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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I’ll be joining @bocaslitfest.bsky.social ‘s 40th anniversary celebration of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social this week, reading from a Peepal Tree title that is especially meaningful to me. Which book shall I read from? There’s only one way to find out. Come on down.

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November 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Thanks to everyone who filled The Writers Centre last evening to hear acclaimed writer #ShaniMootoo read from and discuss her latest collection of poetry, #OhWitnessDey! with Angelique V. Nixon. More photos at: facebook.com/media/set/?v...
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June 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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1st time holding this new anthology of Caribbean voices on climate - WRITING FOR OUR LIVES. I was co editor with the amazing @novelniche.bsky.social I'm at the @bocaslitfest.bsky.social in Trinidad & Tobago where it will be launched at 3.30pm today.
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May 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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📣The pioneering publishing house @peepaltreepress.bsky.social turns 40 in 2025! Join us on Sat 8th Nov to celebrate with a special readings from five Peepal Tree authors: James Christopher Aboud, Andre Bagoo, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, J. Vijay Maharaj, and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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📣The 15th edition of the Bocas Lit Fest, T&T’s annual festival of books & writers, starts tomorrow!
50 events over 4 days with more than 100 (local & visiting) writers, speakers & performers.
👉Visit bocaslitfest.com/programme to check out what's in store!
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April 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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🧵1/2 ✨️Happy Holidays from the Bocas Lit Fest Team! ✨️

🙌We've had an incredibly busy and equally amazing 2025, full of words, stories, and ideas. 🙏Thank you for being an integral part of our story.

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December 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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CAISO's high-octane BackChat is back, featuring an incredible lineup including Lesley-Ann Wanliss, alexispauline.bsky.social, @westofwestindian.bsky.social, abagoo.bsky.social, Angelique V. Nixon, Daniel Blaze, @dennyspeaks.bsky.social, earth, @novelniche.bsky.social, and Tamara Ali.
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April 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with @myriamjachancy.bsky.social, Wendell Berkley Semple, @justinhayneswriter.com, and more!
Full album: facebook.com/media/set?va...
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May 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The excitement is real! Join us on Sat 3 May as @myriamjachancy.bsky.social explores connections and disconnections across lines of class and family, and talks about Village Weavers with Denise deCaires.
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tinhouse.bsky.social Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · Apr 22
🌻Coming next week in paperback!🌻

Village Weavers by @myriamjachancy.bsky.social!

The Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction!

🌻Read more & preorder: bit.ly/VillageWeave...

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April 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with: @westofwestindian.bsky.social, @abagoo.bsky.social, Yvonne Weekes, Anthony Joseph, and more! Full album at: facebook.com/media/set?va...
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May 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Own a rare piece of Festival history and support the future of Caribbean literature! bocaslitfest.com/festival-art/
In celebration of our 15th year, special limited-edition art posters and works of art are being made available as tribute to Caribbean creativity, literature, and art.
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April 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Streaming live!
@dmccaulay.bsky.social talks about her new novel 'A House for Miss Pauline' with Cindy Allman:
youtube.com/live/5fYr_Xu...
@dialoguepublishing.bsky.social
@algonquinbooks.bsky.social
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May 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Join us at the 2025 Awards Ceremony! Be there for the exciting moment when the overall winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is announced, and witness the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award being presented to the @jwilonline.bsky.social! Doors open at 6 pm!
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April 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM