Tag: Myriam J.A. Chancy

  • OCM Bocas Prize 2025 shortlist announced

    OCM Bocas Prize 2025 shortlist announced

    The OCM Bocas Prize 2025 shortlist was announced in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday, March 16, 2025. 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 categories: poetry, fiction…

  • OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022 longlist announced.

    OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022 longlist announced.

    The longlist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022, with nine writers with roots in five different Caribbean countries, was announced on February 27, 2022. The OCM (One Caribbean Media) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first handed out in 2011, based in Trinidad…

  • Writers of African descent on US’Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022 longlist.

    Writers of African descent on US’Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022 longlist.

    There are six writers of African descent on the longlists for the Aspen Words Literary Prize 2022 announced on November 10, 2021. They are Omar El Akkad, Myriam J.A. Chancy, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Jason Mott, and Dawnie Walton. The Aspen Words Literary Prize is an annual award for an influential work of fiction…