Right here is an announcement from the 2023 NGC Bocas Lit Fest group letting us know that this annual literary competition’s occasions—operating from Friday, April 28 to Sunday, April 30—can be obtainable through livestream. See full program at www.bocaslitfest.com.
The NGC Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago’s annual literary competition, returns this weekend, with a programme of occasions operating from Friday 28 to Sunday 30 April. After three years of internet hosting a digital, on-line competition, the programme is again to an in-person format, primarily based in Port of Spain — however audiences elsewhere received’t be overlooked.
The competition livestream — obtainable on the NGC Bocas Lit Fest web site in addition to YouTube and Fb — will make occasions on the principle stage accessible for viewers wherever, with no tickets or registration required. The livestream programme is out there at www.bocaslitfest.com/competition/reside, with periods kicking off on Friday 28 April from 10 am TT time (AST).
“We all know many literature lovers throughout the Caribbean and world wide bought accustomed to becoming a member of the competition on-line through the three-year COVID interval,” says NGC Bocas Lit Fest competition director Nicholas Laughlin. “That was the most effective factor about shifting to a digital format — having the ability to take the programme to viewers in all places. Now that we’re again to an in-person format, we are able to’t go away that worldwide viewers behind.”
As at all times, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest will supply a programme that’s world in scope, however with a particular Caribbean focus. Among the many authors within the 2023 lineup are Bernardine Evaristo, 2019 Booker Prize winner; the long-lasting Jamaican dub poet and musician Linton Kwesi Johnson, talking about his new e book of essays, Time Come; and Trinidad-born poet Anthony Joseph, winner of the 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize.
Viewers may even get to listen to from Caribbean-based authors of internationally revealed novels, a part of a era of writers profitable main books offers whereas primarily based at house — equivalent to T&T’s Kevin Jared Hosein (Hungry Ghosts) and Breanne Mc Ivor (The God of Good Seems), Jamaica’s Sharma Taylor (What a Mom’s Love Don’t Train You), and Cherie Jones of Barbados (How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her Home).
Poets are within the combine as properly — the competition livestream viewers can stay up for readings that includes UK-based Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant (Self-Portrait as Othello), Barbadian British Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa (Cane, Corn & Gully), US-based Trinidadian Desiree C. Bailey (What Noise In opposition to the Cane), and Kittitian-British Adam Lowe (Patterflash).
And the announcement ceremony for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize — probably the most coveted award for Caribbean writers — may even be streamed. Tune in to listen to which of the three style class winners — Anthony Joseph for poetry, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo for fiction, or Ira Mathur for non-fiction — will take the general prize and the money award of US$10,000.
The complete programme for the 2023 NGC Bocas Lit Fest is on-line at www.bocaslitfest.com.