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A new generation of talented writers in all genres will be in the spotlight at the 2023 NGC Bocas Lit Fest. Running from April 28-30 and based at the National Library in downtown Port of Spain, the annual festival – now in its 13th year – returns to an in-person format, with a programme of

Article by Social Share Port of Spain – The Trinidadian-born poet, Desiree Seebaran, Saturday won the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP), defeating entrants from seven other Caribbean countries for the region’s only prize for emerging writers. St Lucia-born poet Canisia Lubrin won the One Caribbean Media (OCM) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Lubrin’s “The Dyzgraphxst”, a book-length poem published by Penguin Random House Canada, was announced the ...

. Trinidad and Tobago poet Desiree Seebaran has won the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP), the region’s only prize for emerging writers. In the third and final year of the Prize, dedicated to the advancement of new Caribbean voices, Seebaran won out over the other two shortlisted poets, Akhim Alexis and Jay T. John. All three are Trinbagonians. The prize offers an opportunity to advance a current work in progress.   In the official announcement during the Winne...

Deane among 10 Caribbean writers vying for top prize Article by The 2021 long list for the region’s only prize for emerging writers, the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP), has been announced by the Bocas Lit Fest. Of the ten writers who have been longlisted for the third and last edition of the Johnson and Amoy Achong Prize, eight of them are from Trinidad and Tobago, one from Guyana and one from Barbados, the previous award-winning Linda Deane. This unique aw...

8 Trinidad and Tobago writers on Bocas longlist Amanda Choo Quan last years winner of the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP). - THE 2021 longlist for the region’s only prize for emerging writers, the Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize (JAAWP), has been announced by the Bocas Lit Fest. Of the ten writers longlisted for the third and last edition of the prize, eight are from Trinidad and Tobago. This unique award is dedicated to advancing the work of an emergi...