Nicholas Laughlin (festival and programme director)
Sponsor
National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC)
Website
www.bocaslitfest.com
The NGC Bocas Lit Fest is the Trinidad and Tobago literary festival that takes place annually during the last weekend of April in Port of Spain. Inaugurated in 2011,[1] it is the first major literary festival in the southern Caribbean[2] and largest literary festival in the Anglophone Caribbean.[3][4][5] A registered non-profit company, the festival has as its title sponsor the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago (NGC).[6] Other sponsors and partners include First Citizens Bank, One Caribbean Media (OCM), who sponsor the associated OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, CODE (sponsors of the Burt Award), and the Commonwealth Foundation.[7][8]
The NGC Bocas Lit Fest also works in collaboration with other international festivals and initiatives, and has hosted events showcasing Caribbean writing talent in New York,[9] at the Brooklyn Book Fair,[10][11] the Harlem Book Fair[12][13] and elsewhere in the US. In 2012, Bocas partnered with the Edinburgh World Writers Conference as part of a lineup of 14 countries delivering a multinational series of talks marking the 50th anniversary of the five-day meeting of "an impressive, sensational and sometimes scandalous group of writers" at the first Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama.[14] The Bocas Lit Fest was described by Claire Armitstead of The Guardian as "expansive in its cultural reach, reflecting a region that has responded to its own colonisation over the centuries by seeding its people to every continent".[15]
^"The Bocas Lit Fest: The Trinidad and Tobago Literary Festival", Repeating Islands, February 2011.
^"3 shortlisted for Bocas Prize", UWI Today, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, April 2011.
^"NGC Bocas Lit Fest Debate on TV6 today", Trinidad Express Newspapers, 22 April 2012.
^Carolyn Cooper, "T&T Lit Fest Puts Us to Shame", Jamaica Gleaner, 8 May 2011.
^"NGC Bocas Lit Fest Debate on TV6 today", Tun Up TV.
^Iana Seales, "Lit Fest opens up to non-English writers", Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, 19 March 2015.
^"NGC Bocas Lit Fest launched at NALIS", Loop, 19 March 2015.
^"Our Sponsors", NGC Bocas Lit Fest.
^Mark Fraser, "Bocas goes to Harlem! TT’s literary festival joins fiction programme in New York City", Trinidad Express Newspapers, 4 July 2014.
^"Bocas at the Brooklyn Book Fest", 2013. NGC Bocas Lit Fest website.
^Johnny Temple "Bookish in Brooklyn" (on the Caribbean element in the Brooklyn Book Festival). Word of Mouth, Caribbean Beat, Issue 117, September/October 2012.
^"Coming from Far: Caribbean Writers on Home and Otherness (Readings and Discussion)". Presented by the NGC Bocas Literary Festival. Harlem Book Fair 2014.
^Ivette Romero, "Bocas Goes to Harlem", Repeating Islands, 5 July 2014.
^"World Writers at Bocas", Trinidad Express newspapers, 10 March 2013.
^Claire Armitstead, "Marlon James makes hero's return to the Caribbean at Bocas festival", The Guardian, 5 May 2016.
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