How can creative writing help spread awareness about the critical issue of climate justice? Writing For Our Lives, an anthology on climate justice featuring 18 Caribbean writers offers multiple answers. newsday.co.tt/2025/09/11/w... @ttnewsday.bsky.social #bocas2025

📣#BocasAcademy’s Sept-Nov offerings: ✍ Workshop: Writing From the Archive 🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Writin... ✍ Masterclass: Reimagining the Future through Speculative Writing 🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Reimag... 🎙Performance Workshop: Page to Stage 🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Perfor... #bocas2025

"Integrating local arts into literacy instruction makes learning culturally relevant and meaningful, fostering a stronger connection between children’s home and school experiences." - Mary Cuffy, storyteller and children's book author, for @ttnewsday.bsky.social newsday.co.tt/2025/09/07/r...

📣September’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, news of awards/prizes, upcoming events, and August’s bestsellers at @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social! trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... #bocas2025

Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre! 🗣 Writing For Our Lives 🍽 Spice Pals Cooking Club 👪 Family Reading Circle 🎤 First Words Young Writers Showcase ☕ Books & Brews: Race, Class and Nationalism in the 21st Century 📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club 📍14 Alcazar St., St. Clair #bocas2025

CSEC and CAPE students! Meet your exam prep dream team: Mrs Joseph-Holmes & Mrs Mathison. Sign up now for FREE lessons for Form 5 English A & B and Form 6 Communication & Caribbean Studies. 🔗https://www.bocaslitfest.com/we-lit-2025/ Sponsored by The JB Fernandes Memorial Trust. #bocas2025 #welit2025

Join us on Sat 13 Sept for readings from Writing For Our Lives, a C'bean #climatejustice anthology. 🗣 Contributors Portia Subran, Amanda T. McIntyre & Judy Raymond will share their prose and poetry, then join in a wide-ranging discussion with Omar Mohammed. #bocas2025

Last evening's BYOBB (Bring Your Own Book & Bottle) event at The Writers Centre was one for the books! We shared books we're excited about and engaged in a lively discussion with author and cultural researcher Kim Johnson We're already looking forward to the next BYOBB! #bocas2025 #byobb

📣Calling all next-year exam students! Register now for We Lit lessons.💻Weekly Zoom sessions for Form 5 English A & B and Form 6 Communication & Caribbean Studies. Register:🔗https://www.bocaslitfest.com/we-lit-2025/ Sponsored by The JB Fernandes Memorial Trust. 📚 #bocas2025 #welit2025 #CAPE #CSEC

📣 Our popular BYOBB (Bring Your Own Book & Bottle) series is back, FREE & open to all. 📖Walk with the book you’ve been reading or bring your favourite & tell us about it. 📖Join us for an informal evening of conversation, books & beverages! 🕠 5.30pm📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair .../2

“Children have higher academic success and greater chances in life when they regularly read stories or novels outside of school. “Adult input and home environment are essential in the early teaching of reading and to foster a love of reading.” newsday.co.tt/2025/08/24/t... @ttnewsday.bsky.social

Guided by spoken word poets/educators Deneka Thomas & Javaughn Forde, 8 students participated in the #WeLit MIC CHECK! hybrid workshop series on finding your voice through spoken word. Well done, Teens! We look forward to seeing you on stage! More info at: facebook.com/share/p/17AB... #bocas2025

1/2 📣 Our popular BYOBB (Bring Your Own Book & Bottle) series is back and we’re celebrating T&T’s Independence with author and cultural researcher Kim Johnson. 📖Join us on 28 Aug for an informal evening of conversation, books & beverages! 🕠 5.30pm📍The Writers Centre .../2

Thanks to all who came by with the little ones last Saturday for a morning of books at our Family Reading Circle, which featured authors Miranda Dookran and Stacy-Ann Julien. Watch this space for news of the next Family Reading Circle at The Writers Centre! #bocas2025 #letsreadtt

Shout out to participants of the #BocasAcademy's workshop, Crafting Zines 101, who attended Alice Yard + SPEC*'s UN|FOLD mini-publications fair with zines of their own. Big thanks to facilitator Kriston Chen. Well done, zinesters! Check the vibe: youtu.be/XQN4VxNTXp0?... #zinemakers #DIYpublishing

Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre! 👪 Family Reading Circle ☕ Books & Brews: Stuart W. Ramon-Fortuné 📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club 📚 The return of BYOBB 🛍 10% off on selected titles every week at Paper Based Bookshop 📍14 Alcazar St., St. Clair #bocas2025

1/3 We join the national community in mourning the loss of Independent Senator and National Council of Indian Culture (NCIC) president Deoroop Teemal, who died at his St Augustine home on 3 August. .../2 Photo: Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago

📣The 2026 #OCMBocasPrize for Caribbean Literature is now open for submissions! 🏆Now in its sixteenth year, the OCM Bocas Prize celebrates books of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction by writers of Caribbean birth or citizenship. 🔗Full guidelines at bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/ #bocas2026

August’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, news of awards/prizes, upcoming events and workshops, and July’s bestsellers at Paper Based Bookshop: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... #bocas2025 @faberbooks.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @peepaltreepress.bsky.social

We have a double-feature for the next #FamilyReadingCircle, with authors Miranda Dookran and Stacy-Ann Juilen. Bring the little ones for a morning of fun with books! 📚Sat 16 Aug 🕙10 am 📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair 🆓 Ideal for children 7 & under, with parent/guardian #bocas2025

Thanks to all who joined us at The Writers Centre for a lovely evening with @amandasmythstories.bsky.social, author of Look at You, who discussed her new novel-in-stories with Shivanee Ramlochan. More at: facebook.com/share/p/15wa... #bocas2025 @novelniche.bsky.social @peepaltreepress.bsky.social

We are thrilled to share news of UN|FOLD: a #zinemakers + #DIYpublishers meetup hosted by Alice Yard + SPEC* 🗓Sat 9 Aug 🕓4-8 pm 📍Granderson Lab, 24 Erthig Road, Belmont If you are a zinemaker/writer/artist with a DIY publishing project you’d like to share, send an email to [email protected]

📣 Teens, are you passionate about storytelling through words, illustrations, and music? Ever dreamed about creating a graphic novel? 🙌 #ProjectFusionJunction is looking for 15 teens from T&T to be part of an amazing project! 🔗 bocaslitfest.com/project-fusi... #bocas2025 @britishcouncil.bsky.social

We transformed #TheWritersCentre into a zine studio for #BocasAcademy’s Crafting Zines 101. Guided by Kriston Chen, participants learned multiple folding options, were introduced to the Risograph, and created their very own zines! More photos at: facebook.com/bocaslitfest... #bocas2025

We had so much fun at Saturday's Family Reading Circle with Dr Afiya Gaspard, author of the children’s book ‘Meet the World Inside of You’. Watch this space for news of our next Family Reading Circle, hosted in collaboration with Let's Read TT. More: www.facebook.com/bocaslitfest... #bocas2025

1/8 We are sad to hear of the death, on 12 July, of Anne Walmsley — editor, publisher, historian and writer, archivist, recipient of the 2018 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters, and a generous friend to many Caribbean writers and artists. .../2

Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre! 🍽 Spice Pals Cook Book Club 👪 Family Reading Circle 📝 #BocasAcademy: Crafting Zines 101 with Kriston Chen 📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club 🗣 Amanda Smyth, reading & discussion 🛍 Paper Based Bookshop's sale on business books 📍14 Alcazar St., St. Clair #bocas2025

July’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, news of awards/prizes, upcoming events and workshops, and June’s bestsellers at Paper Based Bookshop. Read at trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... #bocas2025

📣Calling all students (ages 12-18)! Sign up for #WeLit’s MIC CHECK! — a hybrid workshop series on finding your voice through #spokenword: bocaslitfest.com/we-lit-2025 🎤Learn performance basics and develop the confidence to enter The Bocas Spoken Word Intercol 2025. #bocas2025 #welit2025

Join us for the next Family Reading Circle, featuring Dr Afiya Gaspard, author of 'Meet the World Inside of You', an educational children's book with a twist! 🗓 Saturday 19 July 📍14 Alcazar St., St. Clair 🆓 Ideal for children 7 and under, with parent/guardian #bocas2025

We're excited to welcome #AmandaSmyth to The Writers Centre to share from her new novel-in-stories, Look at You' and discuss the book with Shivanee Ramlochan. 🗓️Sat 26 July 🕠5.30 pm 📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair ✨FREE and open to all! #bocas2025 @peepaltreepress.bsky.social

Sign up for #BocasAcademy’s upcoming masterclass with celebrated contemporary novelist/short story writer and award-winning author #KevinJaredHosein, and bring your most challenging drafts soaring to life. 📝For more info, visit 🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Master... #bocas2025 #writingmasterclass

Explore the art and craft of the zine – a small, handmade, DIY paper project, made for distribution without profit – with the guidance of graphic designer and imagination activator Kriston Chen. 📝For more info, visit: 🔗 islandetickets.com/event/Crafti... #bocas2025 #bocasacademy #zinemaking

The Bocas Lit Fest has received the keys to the city! His Worship Alderman Chinua Alleyne, Mayor of Port of Spain, presented the honour for “excellence and dedication to our community” to our Founder & President Marina Salandy-Brown. More at: vibes.trinidadexpress.com/kitchener/ki... #bocas2025

This weekend, we took our beloved Family Reading Circle to St. Helena! Children’s book author Charisse J. Broome launched her second book, and with Suzette Cadiz of Let's Read TT, read to a group of eager little listeners, their parents & grands. More: www.facebook.com/share/p/1G9X... #bocas2025

Thanks to everyone who filled The Writers Centre last evening to hear acclaimed writer #ShaniMootoo read from and discuss her latest collection of poetry, #OhWitnessDey! with Angelique V. Nixon. More photos at: facebook.com/media/set/?v... #bocas2025 @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Our Family Reading Circle is coming to St. Helena, featuring children’s book author Charisse J. Broome! 📚 Sat 28 June 🕙 10 am to 12 noon 📍St Helena Community Library 🆓 Free and ideal for children 7 years & younger with a parent/guardian. Hosted with Let's Read TT #bocas2025

"The poetry, the ideas, the song of Oh Witness Dey! could only have come out of my enduring passion for TT. It is, therefore, an immense privilege to read from it to its perfect audience at The Writers Centre." @ttnewsday.bsky.social newsday.co.tt/2025/06/15/s... @bookhugpress.bsky.social

Join us as acclaimed writer Shani Mootoo reads from and discusses her latest collection of poetry, Oh Witness Dey! with Angelique V. Nixon. 🗓️24 June🕠5.30 pm 📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar St., St. Clair ✨ FREE and open to all! @bookhugpress.bsky.social

June’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, news of awards and prizes, and May’s bestsellers at Paper Based Bookshop: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... #bocas2025 @papillotepress.bsky.social @carcanet.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social

On the heels of #bocas2025, CEO Jean-Claude Cournand attended the Calabash Literary Festival, rounding off a month that celebrated Caribbean authors and our literary community. "Calabash 2025 was an incredible experience! Massive congratulations to the Calabash team on another successful festival!"

We’re thrilled to feature the first stop on the #CBLFcaravan, a re-imagining of our annual Children's Storytelling Caravan, now enhanced with creative workshops for Primary School children and teachers, as we take the festival experience nationwide. More: facebook.com/media/set?va...

Body in North America, spirit in the Caribbean. Always coming home. Thank you @bocaslitfest.bsky.social 🥹

The old saying claims “there’s no place like home” — but “home” isn’t always a straightforward matter in recent fiction by Ryan Bachoo, Kavita Ganness, and V. Ramsamooj Gosine. Hosted by @Vindhar Suraj. Day 3 at #bocas2025 Full album at facebook.com/media/set?va... #alwayscominghome

#bocas2025 Day 3 featured Voices of Home, a showcase of recently published books by T&T authors Joel Frederick, Ayana K.S.L. John, Otancia Noel, and Ved Valmiki! Full album at: facebook.com/media/set?va... #alwayscominghome

#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with: @westofwestindian.bsky.social, @abagoo.bsky.social, Yvonne Weekes, Anthony Joseph, and more! Full album at: facebook.com/media/set?va... #alwayscominghome

#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with: @jallenpaisant.bsky.social, Erna Brodber, Lawrence Scott, Anthony Vahni Capildeo; Lovelace at 90 film screenings; and more! Full album: facebook.com/media/set?va... #alwayscominghome

#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with @myriamjachancy.bsky.social, Wendell Berkley Semple, @justinhayneswriter.com, and more! Full album: facebook.com/media/set?va... #alwayscominghome

Always Coming Home, a big night of words & music celebrating 15 years of the #OCMBocasPrize, was a homecoming indeed, featuring staged readings brought to life through drama by @urbanfolktales.bsky.social, and an energetic performance by 3Canal. More photos: facebook.com/media/set/?v... #bocas2025

May’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! With new Caribbean releases, news of awards and prizes, and April’s bestsellers at Paper Based Bookshop: trinidadexpress.com/features/loc... More Bocas Book Bulletins at: www.bocaslitfest.com/book-bulletin/ #bocas2025