Running from April 25 to 28, NGC Bocas Lit Fest—now in its 14th year—includes over 150 authors, speakers, and performers, in a packed schedule of events. The festival will be based at the National Library in downtown Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, with satellite venues around the city.
As part of the literary festivities, the 2024 Bocas Henry Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service to Caribbean Letters will be conferred to Arif Ali, Guyanese-British founder of Hansib Publications.
A stellar array of acclaimed authors will be in the lineup at the 2024 NGC Bocas Lit Fest, alongside debut and budding writers of all genres.
Trinidad and Tobago’s annual festival of books and writers, which is also the Anglophone Caribbean’s biggest annual literary event, launched its upcoming programme today. [. . .]
The packed programme, with events for adults, teens, and children, was formally launched at a media event [in March] at the National Library, attended by authors and performers alongside festival sponsors and partners, including representatives of 2024 title sponsor The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC).
Festival and Programme Director Nicholas Laughlin emphasised the NGC Bocas Lit Fest’s focus on amplifying the work of Caribbean writers to a local and global audience. “Making a space for Caribbean stories and voices—here at home and in the world at large—is at the very core of our mission, our ethos, our passion, and our everyday work at the Bocas Lit Fest,” he said. “It’s what we do at the festival, and it’s why from the beginning we’ve worked so assiduously to seek out and develop new writing talent and instigate opportunities for our writers.” [. . .]
Click here for the 2024 NGC Bocas Lit Fest programme
Click here for the 2024 NGC Children’s Bocas Lit Fest programme
Click here to find out more about Arif Ali and the Bocas Henry Swanzy Award
For more information, see https://www.bocaslitfest.com/2024/03/20/announcing-the-2024-ngc-bocas-lit-fest-programme-the-2024-bocas-henry-swanzy-awardee/
Running from April 25 to 28, NGC Bocas Lit Fest—now in its 14th year—includes over 150 authors, speakers, and performers, in a packed schedule of events. The festival will be based at the National Library in downtown Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, with satellite venues around the city. As part of the literary festivities,
