The old saying claims “there’s no place like home” — but “home” isn’t always a straightforward matter in recent fiction by Ryan Bachoo, Kavita Ganness, and V. Ramsamooj Gosine. Hosted by @Vindhar Suraj.
Day 3 at #bocas2025 Full album at facebook.com/media/set?va...
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#bocas2025 Day 3 featured Voices of Home, a showcase of recently published books by T&T authors Joel Frederick, Ayana K.S.L. John, Otancia Noel, and Ved Valmiki! Full album at: facebook.com/media/set?va...
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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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#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with: @jallenpaisant.bsky.social, Erna Brodber, Lawrence Scott, Anthony Vahni Capildeo; Lovelace at 90 film screenings; and more! Full album: facebook.com/media/set?va...
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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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#bocas2025's stage included Festival staples: the Ole Mas Competition and Extempo Debate. Entrants portrayed their interpretation of #AlwaysComingHome. More photos at: facebook.com/media/set/?van

Bocas Lit Fest’s signature Stand & Deliver open mic events were fully subscribed at the Festival this year, with 20+ writers stepping up to the mic to share their work. Well done to each of you! More photos at: facebook.com/media/set/?v...
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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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🌏 Streaming live today, Saturday, on our YouTube channel! For those unable to attend in person, the Festival livestream will bring you all events in the Old Fire Station! bocaslitfest.com/programme/li...
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Two days down; two to go. It’s Day 3 of the 2025 Bocas Lit Fest, and while still buzzing from the excitement of Day 2, we’re eagerly anticipating the events of today! Author panels, Open Mic, Showcases, Ole Mas, Extempo, and our 2025 Awards Ceremony!
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Watch: #bocas2025's Big Ideas discussion panel: The Politics of “Home”, with
Roberta Clarke, Richard Lynch, and Kellie Magnus, chaired by Nicholas Laughlin:
youtube.com/live/mGDPSAl...
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Full house for We Lit's Spotlight with Olive Senior, in conversation with Amílcar Peter Sanatan. Watch at youtube.com/live/rTbBuU0...
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Welcome all, to the 15th edition of the Bocas Lit Fest. Watch live at:
www.youtube.com/live/oDLWCcq...
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#bocas2025 workshop: This Earth, This Sea: Writing Through the Natural World, with @jallenpaisant.bsky.social and @alycia.bsky.social, earlier today at NALIS.
#alwayscominghome #writingworkshop @britishcouncil.bsky.social

It’s happening! Day 1 of the 2025 Bocas Lit Fest is here and we’re starting off with a writing workshop and two celebratory events! With 50 events over 4 days and 100+ writers, speakers & performers, what’s on your must-see list?👉 bocaslitfest.com/programme
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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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Heading to Trinidad & Tobago today for the @bocaslitfest.. am excited!
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#ReadCaribbean
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The Politics of “Home” | How do contemporary geopolitics — and the agendas of global leaders — redefine “home” for ordinary people? Join us for our Big Ideas panel with Roberta Clarke, Richard Lynch, and Kellie Magnus.
Chaired by Nicholas Laughlin.
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📣The 2025 Bocas Lit Fest opens with a landmark celebration of the life & work of T&T’s literary giant, Earl Lovelace — and, wherever you are, you can be a part of it from the comfort of your home! 🖥 Watch Live, on Thurs 1 May, 6.30 pm, via youtube.com/bocaslitfest!
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Bring the little ones to the Bocas Storytime Open Fun House! Featuring fun and entertaining Bocas Storytime video shorts of stories written by children of T&T.
(Attendees of the Adult Festival are welcome to leave their children, ages four & over, at this all-day event.)
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Let’s celebrate young authors with the “First Words” Young Writers’ Showcase; featuring Caiden Francis, Isabel Mc Collin, Andre Lucio, and Jorel Ferguson in conversation with mentor Alake Pilgrim. More at: www.bocaslitfest.com/events/first...
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Bring the little ones to the #FamilyReadingCircle, Festival Edition, an interactive read-aloud session featuring popular children’s authors!
Hosted with Let's Read TT, this FREE event is open to the all and designed for children 7 years and under with parent/caregiver
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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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Own a rare piece of festival history and support the future of Caribbean literature! This year’s commemorative poster features ‘Reader Close to Palms (2022)’ — a striking painting by acclaimed Trinidadian artist #CheLovelace.
Details at: bocaslitfest.com/product/fest...
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Ideas meet costumes and performance in #bocas2025's Ole Mas Competition! Register at bocaslitfest.com?ff_landing=26 to portray your interpretation of #AlwaysComingHome and join us as two of T&T’s wittiest calypsonians, Black Sage and Dion Diaz, face off in the ever-popular Extempo Debate!

Join us for the launch of Project Fusion Junction, a transnational multimedia collaboration with teens from T&T, Jamaica, and Northern Ireland.
Featuring Kevan Calliste and an exciting Extempo session.
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@britishcouncil.bsky.social #fightingwordsni #JamaicaBookFestival

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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How has the work of Earl Lovelace shaped subsequent generations of Caribbean authors? Join us for 'The Books That Made Me: Lovelace Special Edition' with Lisa Allen-Agostini, Marlon James, and Anthony Joseph, in conversation with Gabrielle Hosein.
#bocas2025 #alwayscominghome #EarlLovelace

Join us for Always Coming Home, a big night of words and music celebrating 15 years of the OCM Bocas Prize, featuring staged readings brought to life through drama and music by @urbanfolktales.bsky.social and a performance by 3Canal.
$100 at the door; no advance tickets.
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New climate justice book to launch at Bocas Lit Fest Writ­ing For Our Lives, a new an­thol­o­gy com­mis­sioned by The Crop­per Foun­da­tion and pub­lished by Peekash Press, will make its in­ter­na­tion­al de­but at this year’s Bo­cas Lit Fest on May 3 a...

"Through works that range from the dystopian to the folkloric, set in the Caribbean’s past, present, and future, [we're moving] the discussion beyond the science and statistics to show the unequal impacts of this crisis." guardian.co.tt/article/new-...
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