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Kyle Hernandez is the 2023 winner of the First Citizens National Poetry Slam (FCNPS), the popular spoken word championship. He triumphed over 14 finalists to take the prize of $50,000, sponsored by First Citizens. Performing before a sold-out audience at the Central Bank Auditorium, Port of Spain, on April 30, Hernandez wooed the judges with

DR GABRIELLE JAMELA HOSEIN OVER THE weekend, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest gathered more than 100 novelists, short-story writers, biographers and poets to exuberantly celebrate books. There was a glittering wealth of writing from the Caribbean, and from TT. In-person or online, one could hear readings from recent publications and backstories from this generation of

“The sharp pain knifed up my left side, sliced across my heart and, as I screamed, my chest seemed to blow apart. I bolted up from the bed feeling that I had been shot. And there, standing in the shadows, for the third time in a week, was a black-robed figure pointing a bony finger

Nothing is ordinary or predictable in Brian Samuel’s autobiography Song for My Father. With the exception of Phil Knight’s memoir Shoe Dog, I can’t recall any book I’ve read in this genre that is so laugh-aloud funny. But Samuel’s story is one up on Knight’s for its ability to tackle serious, uncomfortable topics through humour.

Our warmest congratulations to Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, who won the award for the NGC Bocas Lit Fest’s outstanding Caribbean book of the past year for her first novel When We Were Birds. T&T Loop News reports: For the second time in a row, a debut writer from Trinidad and Tobago has won the award for…

Ulster Tatler is a lifestyle and society magazine based in Northern Ireland which was founded in 1966. Established in 1966, the Ulster Tatler is now Northern Irelands longest established and most widely read monthly. It has coverage of events in the Northern Ireland social calendar as well as local fashions. The tone of the magazine is very much to look of the positive side to life in Northern Ireland.

Here is an announcement from the 2023 NGC Bocas Lit Fest team letting us know that this annual literary festival’s events—running from Friday, April 28 to Sunday, April 30—will be available via livestream. See full program at www.bocaslitfest.com. The NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary festival, returns this weekend, with a programme…

Organisers of the Monty Lit Fest were forced to hunt for a new venue for their headliner after they quickly sold out.

The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.

Life writing – in books ranging from memoirs to family histories – is set to be a major focus at this year’s NGC Bocas Lit Fest, with readings and discussions featuring a fascinating line-up of Trinidad and Tobago authors. A rapidly growing, popular genre with locally-based writers, life writing records real-life personal and community stories.