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Denver's premier independent creative-writing institution, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, announced its new location this week, a brand-new building at 39th and York streets, just off the new greenway bordering the Clayton and Cole neighborhoods. Lighthouse had previously done business — and offered important literary contributions to the city and state — at various historic sites. Early on, the group founded in 1997 operated out of the Thomas Hornsby Ferril House, named for Colorado’s first poet laureate. Most recently, the nonprofit has been based in the equally historic Milheim House...

More reading, and even more listening: How the pandemic has affected literature in Bhutan Two lockdowns in the mountain kingdom have not blocked the effort to get more people to read. Bhutan Echoes festival: A reading session with Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck. | Bhutan Echoes Drukyul Festival In the Kingdom of Bhutan, where Covid-19 is relatively well controlled, every new episode of the pandemic still leaves us wondering what’s next. Two nationwide lockdowns have disrupted the easy life in a country of 750,000 people. The pandemic has caused social and econo...

In its diverse subjects and themes, in the broad dispersal of both writers and readers, Caribbean literature has a global sweep. Two generations ago, Jamaican poet Louise Bennett-Coverley wrote about Caribbean people “colonising in reverse” —and, indeed, contemporary Caribbean authors have helped shift and broaden the focus of the international literary world, changing the conversation in every way. Raising the international profile of Caribbean authors and building a broader readership for Caribbean writing outside the region has been a key objective of the Bocas Lit Fest for ...

Colonising literature in reverse Canadian-Guyanese writer Tessa McWatt, author of Shame on Me. - The following is a recap by the Bocas Lit Fest of the events it held despite this pandemic year. In its diverse subjects and themes, in the broad dispersal of both writers and readers, Caribbean literature has a global sweep. Two generations ago, the Jamaican poet Louise Bennett-Coverley wrote about Caribbean people “colonising in reverse” — and, indeed, contemporary Caribbean authors have helped shift and broaden the focus of the international literary world, changing the conversation in e...

[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Janine Mendes-Franco ( Global Voices) writes about Marina Salandy-Brown’s contributions to the arts and literary world, especially in the Anglophone Caribbean, and her recent recognition as Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and as recipient of Chile’s inaugural Ferdinand Magellan Award for Innovation. For the last 10 years, Marina Salandy-Brown has been expanding the scope and reach of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest (named for its title sponsor, the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago), now wide...