Category: U.S. Virgin Islands
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US Virgin Islands Literary Festival & Book Fair 2024 starts April 11
The US Virgin Islands Literary Festival & Book Fair 2024 runs in the US territory from April 11 – 14, 2024. The festival theme is “Legacies: Reckoning + Resilience” The US Virgin Islands Literary Festival & Book Fair was first hosted at the University of the Virgin Islands in 2015. For the last nine years,…
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OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024 longlists announced.
The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024 longlists were announced in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday, March 10, 2024. The OCM (One Caribbean Media) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, worth US$10,000, is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first handed out in 2011. Books are judged in three…
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Bocas Lit Fest Children’s Book Prize 2021 longlist announced.
The writers across the Caribbean who made the Bocas Lit Fest Children’s Book Prize 2021 longlist were announced on October 7, 2021. The Bocas Lit Fest Children’s Book Prize is a new prize that will be given to one English-language book for children, written by a Caribbean author. It is administered by the Bocas Lit…