Bocas Light Fest We have announced the 2025 OCM Bocas Award for Caribbean Literary Nominee Award. A book by 15 authors with roots in eight countries has been finalized. Winners in the three genre categories will be announced on April 6, 2025, and the overall winners of the 2025 Caribbean Literary Awards will be announced on Saturday, May 3, 2025 at Bocaslit Fest in Port of Spain. This is the information (from Bocaslitfest):
The authors of the five books were nominated for the 2025 OCM Bocas Award.
Polka dot scarsAnthony Vahni Capildeo (T&T/Scotland) (Carcanet Press))
West of West IndiaLinzie Coridon (St. Vincent and Grenazin) (Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.))
Some of us can go homeYashika Graham (Jamaica)Blue Banyan Book))
Pass: New Selected Poemsby Marvin Taylor (T&T) (@beltwayeditions)
Coco Islandby Christine Roseetta Walker (Jamaica)(Carcanet Press))
The five books were finalized for the 2025 OCM Bocas Awards. Similarly, two already famous multi-genre writers and three first-time authors will come together.
Village WeaverMyriam Ja Chancy (Haiti) (Tin House))
Sweet Lee GDavid Dabydeen (Guyana)Peepal Tree Press))
Sea pageAnne Hawk (T&T) (Weatherglass books))
BelieversAK Herman (T&T) (AR Philips Press)
Sweetness of the skinIshi Robinson (Jamaica)HarperCollins/Penguinukbooks)
The finalists for the Non-Fiction 2025 OCM Bocas Award are highly diverse in topics and approaches that address autobiography, family memoirs, history and cultural analysis.
Salvage: Measurements from shipwrecksDionne Brand (T&T/Canada) (Farrah, Strauss, Giroux))
We are aloneby Edwiddang tick (Haiti/USA)Grey Wolf Press))
Revival of Resistance Evacuation: Karinagos, the Indigenous Peoples of the DominicansLennox Honeychurch (Dominica)Papillote Press))
Global Guyana: Shaping race, gender and environment in the Caribbean and beyondOneKa Labennett (Guyana/US) (NYU Press))
Mother Archives: Reminiscences of Dominican FamilyErica Morillo (Dominican Republic) (University of Iowa Press)
For the 15th consecutive year, the OCM Bocas Award is the most coveted award in Caribbean books. Every year, we recognize books in three genre categories (poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction) published the previous year by authors of the Caribbean birth or citizenship.
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