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Sitting in front of a full bookcase in his Boston home, Jamaican-American author Desmond Hall explained to a virtual book club in the Virgin Islands last Thursday evening how creating …
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Since 2021, the BVI Literary Arts Festival has grown into one of the territory’s most meaningful annual celebrations of culture. This year’s edition, hosted this month at H. Lavity Stoutt …
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After drawing pictures with paint, markers and glitter pens, children between the ages of 4 and 7 shared the stories behind their images. One drawing showed a girl’s trip to …
Big-name writers and other creatives are coming to the territory for the BVI Literary Arts Festival this week — including Trinidadian novelist Celeste Mohammed, American publisher Chris Jackson, Jamaican author …
On Saturday morning, children lined up in the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College Learning Resource Centre according to their age group, waiting patiently to pick out a book to take …
The fast-paced schedule of the third annual BVI Literary Festival had attendees raucously laughing at humorous readings, snapping in appreciation of poetry performances, and sitting in contemplative silence as authors …
Prominent poets and novelists from across the Caribbean and its diaspora. Virgin Islands writers, businesspeople, filmmakers and musicians. A Nobel Prize-winning economist. All are among the dozens of presenters scheduled …
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Get to know the speakers who will be leading various panel discussions, workshops and special events during this year’s BVI Literary Festival. Many of the events are free to attend, …
On Saturday evening, poet Dr. Richard Georges posted on Facebook that he was “waiting for someone to pull a Steve Harvey” because he was “shocked” at the announcement: He had …
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Dr. Richard Georges, the acting president of H. Lavity Stout Community College, has always viewed the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature as a special award. Many literary contests are only …
