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
Met Premee Mohamed, Karen Lord panel led by How to Say #Bocas2024 at this year's Bocas Lit Fest 🖋📚.
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Got my once yearly photo with Brandon O'Brien!!!
I also got to meet Premee Mohamed, woohoo!!!
Lovely #bocas2024 !!
At the #bocas2024 Bocas Lit Fest all day for #fantasticfriday ! Couldn't miss it!!!
Currently at a Take Two panel featuring Premee Mohamed Karen Lord How to Say #Bocas2024
With free seminars for early-career authors, a New Voices Showcase, a Big Idea discussion, a Fantastic Friday programme of Caribbean fantasy, folklore and speculative writing, and a big night of words & music, the volume is turned up on our adult Festival today! #bocas2024
I don't know what you are doing with your Sunday but you should just go on and watch this conversation between Gab Hosein and Christina Sharpe. The live just finish but scroll back and catch it from the start. #bocas2024 youtube.com/watch?v=BiHSJU…
#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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Busy Sunday so skating in to almost the end of this Edwidge Danticat panel. Here it is happening live. You can scroll back and get it from the start! youtube.com/watch?v=K54yNB… #bocas2024
“‘You must be kidding me.’ I say, although I know she is not kidding and I am also not surprised. I say, ‘I see you.’ she says, ‘I know.’” Christina Sharpe Ordinary Notes
captures moments of pure tenderness from Ordinary Notes.
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At #bocas2024 and already in tears at the panel Quarrelling With History with Christina Sharpe (In the Wake, Ordinary Notes), Karen Lord (The Blue, Beautiful World), and Myriam J.A. Chancy (Harvesting Haiti), moderated by D. Alissa Trotz
🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @safiyasinclair!🏆
She has won the 14th annual award for How to Say Babylon: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster / 4th Estate Books
Sponsored by One Caribbean Media
#OCMBocasPrize2024 #bocas2024 #OneCaribbeanMedia
“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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Loved this panel with R.S.A. Garcia On Mastodon/Bluesky as rsagarcia and Zalika Reid-Benta, moderated by Breanne Mc Ivor about modern takes on Caribbean folklore at Bocas Lit Fest #bocas2024
Karen Lord shares scenes of love and loss both familiar and fantastic from her book (The Blue, Beautiful World, longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction) in a conversation with Premee Mohamed. Watch Fantastic Friday: Take Two: youtube.com/watch?v=86FG1A…
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'I was still being asked the same questions: Why should we care? What is wrong with Haiti? And my response was always, what's wrong [is] that they don't know.'
@myriamjachancy talks about confronting ignorance —and apathy.
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@myriamjachancy talks about confronting ignorance —and apathy.
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@myriamjachancy talks about confronting ignorance —and apathy.
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Celebrating the 25th anniversary of 'At the Full and Change of the Moon' the landmark novel by #DionneBrand ! #bocas2024 conrad parris #elishaefuabartels , #MandisaGranderson BigBlackBox
It’s Day 3 of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest featuring poetry and short story to novel workshops, eight One on One, Take Two interviews & showcases, a special film screening, a Big Idea discussion, and the ever-popular Ole Mas Competition and Extempo Debate!
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Day 3 of #bocas2024
It's been bustling! Got a seat in the Edwidge Danticat panel before the seats ran out!
Taking in the Bocas Breakthrough Fellows readings, which are awesome so far!
Mama look at books!
I had such an awesome time at Bocas Lit Fest 2024!!!
I went to a lot of panels, bought a LOT of books, met a lot of people I only see once a year or for the first time and had a time! Can't wait for next year!
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After a night of awards, dancing & celebrating, Day 4 of the 2024 NGC Bocas Lit Fest is here! Join us for highly anticipated book launches, six author panels, film screenings, workshops, big Idea discussions, & the First Citizens National Poetry Slam Grand Slam!
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