🏆 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)

#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize

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

#OCMBocasPrize #bocas2025 @tinhouse.bsky.social

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.
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize
@tinhouse.bsky.social

1/2 With great excitement we announce the winners of the poetry, fiction, and nonfiction categories of the 2026 #OCMBocasPrize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Details at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/

🏆Congratulations to the winner of the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Tessa McWatt!🏆
She has won the 16th annual award for her book, The Snag: A Mother, a Forest, and Wild Grief.
#bocas2026 #OCMBocasPrize

As excitement builds in the lead up to the announcement of this year’s recipient of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, we are treated in today’s Trinidad and Tobago Express to an excerpt from the winner of the Fiction category: Ibis, by @justinhayneswriter.com
#bocas2026 #OCMBocasPrize

🖋️📚💙 #bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize #Haiti "A novel by Haitian-Canadian-American author Myriam J.A. Chancy has won the award for best Caribbean book of the past year." Village Weavers by
Myriam J.A. Chancy

333 pages • first pub 2024

📣The 2026 #OCMBocasPrize for Caribbean Literature is now open for submissions!
🏆Now in its sixteenth year, the OCM Bocas Prize celebrates books of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by writers of Caribbean birth or citizenship.
🔗Full guidelines at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/
#bocas2026

The announcement of this year’s recipient of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is days away, and today we are treated in the Express to a second excerpt from the winner of the Nonfiction category: The Snag: A Mother, a Forest, and Wild Grief, by Tessa McWatt
#bocas2026 #OCMBocasPrize

Prof Tessa McWatt, a professor of creative writing in our School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, has received the OCM Bocas Prize, the leading international award for Caribbean writing, for her memoir 'The Snag: A Mother, a Forest, and Wild Grief.'

#OCMBocasPrize #CreativeWriting

📣 Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight territories have been shortlisted for the 2026 #OCMBocasPrize for Caribbean Literature in three categories:
www.bocaslitfest.com/2026/02/28/f...

🙏Sponsored by One Caribbean Media and administered by the Bocas Lit Fest.
#bocas2026

Always Coming Home, a big night of words & music celebrating 15 years of the #OCMBocasPrize, was a homecoming indeed, featuring staged readings brought to life through drama by @urbanfolktales.bsky.social, and an energetic performance by 3Canal.
More photos: facebook.com/media/set/?v...
#bocas2025

1/2 📣Meet the judges of 2026's OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature!📣
⭐Chief Judge: Margaret Busby
⭐Poetry: Raymond Antrobus (Chair), Lauren K. Alleyne, & Tanya Shirley
The 2026 #OCMBocasPrize is sponsored by One Caribbean Media #OneCaribbeanMedia #bocas2026 .../2

2/2📣Meet the judges of 2026's OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature!📣
⭐Fiction: Kelly Baker Josephs (Chair), Anjula Gogia, & Kevin Jared Hosein
⭐Nonfiction: Alison Donnell (chair), Richard Charan, & Oneka LaBennet
The #OCMBocasPrize is sponsored by #OneCaribbeanMedia #bocas2026

One week ahead of the announcement of this year’s recipient of the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, we are treated in today’s Express to an excerpt from the winner of the Nonfiction category: The Snag: A Mother, a Forest, and Wild Grief, by Tessa McWatt
#bocas2026 #OCMBocasPrize

"We have seen our regional talents bring glory to our islands and nations!"

Dawn Thomas, CEO,
One Caribbean Media, channels an effusive energy as she reaffirms One Caribbean Media's dedication to the #OCMBocasPrize -- it has not wavered since 2011, she says with deep pride.

#bocas2025

The 2027 #OCMBocasPrize for Caribbean Literature is open for submissions!
🏆Now in its 17th year, the OCM Bocas Prize celebrates books of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by writers of Caribbean birth or citizenship.
🔗Full guidelines: bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/
#bocas2026