#Spain recognizes three #Trinis for distinguished service in the energy and culture sectors
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📷 Mariela Bruzual
#bocas2025 Embajada de España en Trinidad y Tobago - Embassy of Spain to T&T Trinidad Express Newspapers T&T Guardian
🧵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.
#bocas2025
Trying to find the perfect gift for the aspiring writer in your life? How about a Bocas Academy offering:
✍Jumpstart January - a month of writing prompts
📝‘Write It for the Eye: an intro to visual poetry
✍‘The Funny Thing Is…’ - Writing humour and satire
Info at academy.bocaslitfest.com
#bocas2025
3/3 Salene, we had a great time on Heartbeat Radio 104.1 FM! Thank you for helping get the word out about the value in investing in proven ways to support Caribbean writers and readers. See you soon, at The Writers Centre.
#bocas2025 #CaribbeanWriters #ReadCaribbean #CaribbeanVoices
5/5 The Tween Tales masterclasses were run under the Bocas Academy umbrella and sponsored by the Wainwright Foundation.
#bocas2025 #bocasacademy #TweenTales
Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre!
🎵Xmas Couch Jam with John Hussain, 07 Dec 11 am
📷Trini Christmas Tales Open Mic, 13 Dec 4.30 pm
📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club, 14 Dec 4-6 pm
☕Books & Brews with Jeannine A. Cook, 20 Dec 3-4pm
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
#bocas2025 @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
🎄It’s almost time!🎄'Not Another Christmas Market' happens this Sat 15 Nov, featuring 🎁unique gifts, crafts,📚books, food, drinks and live music 🎶 to get you in the festive spirit! There’s so much to choose from for your loved ones, or for yourself!
📍14 Alcazar St., St.Clair
🆓FREE ENTRY
#bocas2025
8/8 Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Writers Centre. We look forward to celebrating more @peepaltreepress.bsky.social titles for years to come.
More: facebook.com/media/set/?v...
#bocas2025 #PeepalTreeRubyJubilee
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.
#Bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress
Happening in November at #TheWritersCentre!
🗣Celebrating Peepal Tree Press for their 40th anniversary
🎁Not Another Christmas Market
📖Books & Brews: Sarah Beckett
🍽Spice Pals Cookbook Club
📚Sleepy Cat Book Club
☕Art of Coffee & Ink tattoo pop-up by Kim Kong
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
#bocas2025
"Lauren Francis-Sharma’s fiction spans continents and centuries — from a small village on Trinidad’s North Coast to 18th-century Montana to post-apartheid South Africa — yet always circles back to questions of identity, justice, and forgiveness.” More: guardian.co.tt/article/insi...
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📣November’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, upcoming events and workshops, awards & prizes, and October’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social! Enjoy: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...
#bocas2025
BYOBB is quickly shaping up to be a community favourite! Readers & writers came together at #TheWritersCentre to share what they’ve been reading & celebrate Calypso History Month with producer Judith Laird & soca artist, songwriter & bandleaderNadia Batson. facebook.com/share/p/14Lk...
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In the best way, emotions ran high on Tuesday evening at The Writers Centre as Lauren Francis-Sharma read from Casualties of Truth, and discussed its themes (abuses of history & the costs of revenge) with Breanne Mc Ivor.
More: www.facebook.com/media/set?va...
#bocas2025
@groveatlantic.bsky.social
2/2 We're celebrating #PeepalTreesRubyJubilee with James Christopher Aboud, @abagoo.bsky.social, @dboodoofortune.bsky.social, #JVijayMaharaj, and #Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
🗓 Sat 08 Nov 🕥5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
#bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress
📣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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Thanks to all who joined us for a memorable two-part evening celebrating International Creole Month:
‘Palé palé-ou: Why our Patois heritage matters’ — a Big Ideas conversation, & a screening of 'Aliker' at the Alliance Française of T&T. More photos: facebook.com/media/set/?s...
#bocas2025 #aftt2025
Storybooks open worlds of imagination for our little ones. We had a 'full verandah' at The Writers Centre for October's Family Reading Circle featuring children’s book author Sonja Dumas, and hosted with Let's Read TT.
More at: facebook.com/share/p/1LcQ...
#bocas2025
@paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
Join us on 25 Oct for a 2-part evening celebrating International Creole Month!
🕠5.00 pm, The Writers Centre - Palé palé-ou: Why our Patois heritage matters
🕠6.30 pm, The Alliance Française - 📽Film screening: Aliker
📍14 & 17 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
Free! RSVP bit.ly/BLF-ICM
#bocas2025 #aftt2025
📣 Lauren Francis-Sharma is coming to The Writers Centre! Join us for readings from her novel, Casualties of Truth, and a conversation with Breanne Mc Ivor.
🗓️Tues 28 Oct 🕠5.30 pm
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
🆓 FREE; open to all #bocas2025
@groveatlantic.bsky.social @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
Join us for the Family Reading Circle for a morning of fun & interactive reading with Sonja Dumas, author of Avocado & Zaboca!
📚Sat 25 Oct
🕙10 am - 12 noon
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
🆓Ideal for children, 7 years old & younger, with a parent or guardian
#bocas2025
@paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
🔔Save the date! The Writer's Centre's 'Not Another Christmas Market' returns on Sat 15 Nov!
🛍We're doing Christmas shopping our way with🎁unique gifts, crafts,📚books, food, drinks & live music to get you in the festive spirit!🎶
📍14 Alcazar Street, St.Clair
#bocas2025 @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
🏆Publishers and authors! The first deadline approaches!🏆
📚Books published between 1 Jan and 31 Oct, 2025, must be delivered to the Bocas Lit Fest by 7 Nov, 2025.
Submission guidelines for the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature at: bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/
#bocas2025 #OCMBocasPrize2026
2/2 🍷Bring a bottle of your favourite beverage too (we'll provide ice & glasses) or patronise the Sleepy Cat Cafe for treats, coffee & tea. ☕
🛍 @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social will be open too!
📖It’s going to be an informal evening of conversation, books and beverages.
#bocas2025 #byobb
Join us for the Family Reading Circle for a morning of fun & interactive reading with Sonja Dumas, author of Avocado & Zaboca!
📚 Sat 25 Oct
🕙 10 am to 12 noon
📍14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
🆓Ideal for children, 7 yrs and younger, with a parent or guardian
#bocas2025 @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
Join us on 25 Oct for a two-part evening celebrating International Creole Month!
🕠5.00 pm, The Writers Centre - Palé palé-ou: Why our Patois heritage matters (discussion)
🕠6.30 pm, The Alliance Française - 📽A special film screening
Free to attend! Register at bit.ly/BLF-ICM
#bocas2025 #aftt2025
📣October’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, news of awards/prizes and workshops, and September’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social!
Read the Bulletin at: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc...
#bocas2025
October at #TheWritersCentre!
🎵John Hussain
🖼Vision Board Workshop
🍽Spice Pals Cookbook Club
👪Family Reading Circle
☕Scarlett Ibis James
🗣Big Ideas: Int'l Creole Month
📚Sleepy Cat Book Club
🗣Lauren Francis-Sharma
📚BYOBB Social: National Calypso Month
#bocas2025 @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social
Reading together as a family is the first step towards developing a lifelong habit of reading. We had a “full verandah” at The Writers Centre for September's Family Reading Circle, with both little ones and grownups getting excited about books.
More: www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
#bocas2025
3/3 Whether you’re penning an epic long-form poem about a soucouyant, or drafting a dystopian novel set in downtown Port of Spain in the year 3000, you’ll receive writing prompts, guided exercises and intuitive feedback designed to make your work soar!
#bocas2025 #bocasacademy
