An evening of new Caribbean writing

Thursday 27th October, doors 5pm, event 6.30pm, Great Hall and Gallery              

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Presented in partnership with the NGC Bocas Lit Fest

A literary showcase featuring five of the Caribbean's most exciting contemporary voices. With Celeste Mohammed, Canisia Lubrin, Barbara Jenkins, Karen Lord, and Celia Sorhaindo.

Writing across genres from novels to short stories, memoirs to poetry, these five writers from four Caribbean countries represent a diversity of voices, ideas, and linguistic backgrounds. The Caribbean they explore in their books may be partly familiar and partly strange, and their stories and themes tackle universal questions: family and history, identity and love, boundary crossings of all kinds, and the purpose of writing itself.

Join us for a lively evening of stories, poetry, ideas, conversation — and food!

Programme:

From 5pm: Join us before the event for relaxed conversation and drinks, plus books to browse and tasty Jamaican food available to purchase.

6.30pm: ‘It starts with an island’: poets Canisia Lubrin (The Dyzgraphxst) and Celia Sorhaindo (Radical Normalisation) will read from their work and discuss the impact on their writing of having an island grounding.

7 pm: ‘Looking forward, looking back’: prose writers Barbaba Jenkins (The Stranger Who Was Myself), Karen Lord (Unravelling) and Celeste Mohammed (Pleasantview) will join the stage for readings and a discussion about the history and future of writing from the Caribbean, chaired by Bocas Festival director, Nicholas Laughlin.

7.45pm: a chance for you to put your questions to the authors

8pm: Book signing

Presented with support from the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC), The Hollick Foundation, One Caribbean Media (OCM), the British Council, the Windham-Campbell Prizes, and the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment

TICKETS INFORMATION: https://nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/whats-on/an-evening-of-new-caribbean-writing/