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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…