Schedule

From artisanal patisseries to expanding regional corporations, the Virgin Islands’ generational businesses are a testament to resilience, vision, and sacrifice. Join us for a multi-perspective exploration of the stories and nuance behind building and sustaining legacy enterprises within our Caribbean context. Presented by OA Consulting Group

Puerto Rican poets speak to how identity, intersections, and political events inform the writing process and creative production. Writers may read excerpts of their works.

Enya Douglas, Naudia Turnbull and Natalie Hodge in conversation on the filmmaking community in the British Virgin Islands. Short films screened. 

Alscess Lewis-Brown, Patricia Turnbull, Richard Georges read the words of 20th Century novelist Sam Selvon.  Presented by OCM Bocas Lit Fest

Local songwriters give their take on BVI musicology and music history as well as teach songwriting in our musical traditions.  Presented by 284 Media

Caribbean-British writers explore their multiple identities in writing and self-expression. Writers may read excerpts of their works.   

Writers use their personal voice and histories to write travel narratives with ethics and originality. Writers may read excerpts of their works. 

In these candid conversations beautifully shot in the quiet comfort of her home in Long Island, New York, Nunez walks us through the creative inputs of five of her most celebrated novels. Presented by Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival.

Experience a one-on-one coaching session with literary agent, Elise Dillsworth to pitch your book and receive feedback as well as discuss how to navigate the industry with the projects that you have. Only 3 spaces available. 

A primer on the topics of inflation, understanding the Federal Reserve Board and issues that inform Recessional trends in economics. Concretizing and breaking down economic theory for our daily lives.  Sponsored by VP Bank

Award-winning and best-selling novelists Charmaine Wilkerson, Tiphanie Yanique, and Alecia McKenzie read excerpts from their latest works, moderated by Sauda Smith.

The ode, commonly understood as a ceremonious and celebratory form, an homage or tribute to a subject of the poet’s choosing, is also an exercise in retrieval. As we inhabit islands—a world—of unrelenting crises, engaging in the act of rescuing the disregarded and seemingly ordinary can be a defiant move against the manufactured precarity that insists on consuming us whole. In this workshop, we will explore how the ode as a contemporary form can function as a tactic to salvage all that which slips through the cracks, “buried under the accumulating emergencies of our lives,” as the poet Adrienne Rich...

This writing workshop is dedicated to utilising personal experience and histories to create dynamic works of fiction.

This non-fiction workshop is focused on utilising generational and cultural markers to tell your story. 

Experience a one-on-one coaching session with literary agent, Elise Dillsworth to pitch your book and receive feedback as well as discuss how to navigate the industry with the projects that you have. Only 3 spaces available. 

Performances by: Anthony Anaxagorou, Shivanee Ramlochan, Ariel Francisco, Canisia Lubrin, Yesha Townsend, April Glasgow, Errol Percival Jr., Giovanni Herbert, Kamaal Lettsome.  Music by Brent Hoyte, Homegrown Music Academy.  Hosted by Giovanni Herbert 

Jonathan Escoffery’s best-selling novel, If I Survive You is shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize, and has been nominated for the John Leonard Prize, the Pen/Jean Stein Open Book Award, the Story Prize, and the arnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction among others. Jonathan reads from his works and shares in conversation with Cindy Allman, creator of the BookOfCinz platform and the ReadCaribbean challenge.