Fresh Milk Barbados recently announced the winners of the inaugural Bocas Lit Fest Scholarship. Congratulations to Bajan winners Cyndi Celeste and Connor Harris. Read more below, and see more details at Fresh Milkand Bocas Lit Fest.
Fresh Milk is deeply pleased to share the results of our inaugural Bocas Lit Fest Scholarship, which has been made possible with the generous support of Peter Lewis as part of our 2026 Slow Reading Programme. This programme serves to activate Fresh Milk’s Colleen Lewis Reading Room (CLRR), and commemorate Colleen Lewis’s legacy on the 20th anniversary of her passing. We are delighted to announce that the inaugural Bocas Lit Fest Scholarship has been awarded to Cyndi Celeste and Connor Harris!
The Bocas Lit Fest Scholarship was designed with three principal desires in mind:
- A programme designed by and for artists, writers, and cultural workers with the goal of drawing strength from, and consolidating an awareness across linguistic regions and generations.
- A programme that exalts the civic function of the arts and art research by bridging cultural practices with the social contexts to which they are responding, as well as addressing the practical needs of doing this work.
- A programme that activates and facilitates exchange of existing work, thought, and feeling between Barbadians and, more broadly, Caribbean people, in order to digest and counteract the prevailing sense of isolation and/or apathy our economic and social condition can perpetuate.
The Bocas Lit Fest — held annually in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago — represents the most significant literary event in the Anglo-Caribbean. Held this year from April 30th to May 3rd, it generates a period of crucial enrichment, exchange and celebration for our region’s cultural sector. We determined sponsored attendance of this festival for a Bajan writer to be a necessary element of the Slow Reading Programme, in order to take part in the world-building activities and tools that literature, arts and archiving generate, helping to foster the imagination required to navigate the nuances of the Caribbean.
Read more at https://freshmilkbarbados.com/2026/05/06/announcing-the-inaugural-bocas-lit-fest-scholarship/
Fresh Milk Barbados recently announced the winners of the inaugural Bocas Lit Fest Scholarship. Congratulations to Bajan winners Cyndi Celeste and Connor Harris. Read more below, and see more details at Fresh Milkand Bocas Lit Fest. Fresh Milk is deeply pleased to share the results of our inaugural Bocas Lit Fest Scholarship, which has been made possible with the generous support of Peter
