📣Calling all students (ages 12-18)! Sign up for #WeLit’s MIC CHECK! — a hybrid workshop series on finding your voice through #spokenword: bocaslitfest.com/we-lit-2025 🎤Learn performance basics and develop the confidence to enter The Bocas Spoken Word Intercol 2025. #bocas2025

*UPDATE: POSTPONED* Due to unforeseen circumstances, Pass The Mic has been postponed, but don’t worry, we’ll be back with a new date that will be worth the wait. Please visit Paper Based Bookshop for a refund on your in-person ticket. Island e-tickets will refund online ticket sales.

We join the nation in mourning the loss of a pioneering broadcaster, cultural advocate and former MP Hansley (Hans) Hanoomansingh, and send condolences to his family, friends, colleagues, and all who were moved and inspired by his presence. newsday.co.tt/2025/07/05/vet…

July’s Bocas Book Bulletin is here! Featuring new Caribbean releases, news of awards/prizes, upcoming events and workshops, and June’s bestsellers at Paper Based Bookshop! Read at trinidadexpress.com/features/local… #bocas2025 Trinidad and Tobago Express Newspapers

Happening this month at #TheWritersCentre! 🍽 Spice Pals Cook Book Club 👪 Family Reading Circle 📝 #BocasAcademy: Crafting Zines 101 with Kriston Chen 📚 Sleepy Cat Book Club 🗣 Amanda Smyth 🛍 Paper Based Bookshop sale on business books 📍14 Alcazar St., St. Clair #bocas2025

We had so much fun at Saturday's Family Reading Circle with Dr Afiya Gaspard, author of the children’s book ‘Meet the World Inside of You’. Keep an eye on this space for news of our next Family Reading Circle! More photos: facebook.com/bocaslitfest/p… #bocas2025 Paper Based Bookshop

We transformed #TheWritersCentre into a zine studio for #BocasAcademy’s Crafting Zines 101. Guided by Kriston Chen Kriston Chen, participants learned multiple folding options, were introduced to the Risograph, & created their very own zines! More: facebook.com/bocaslitfest/p… #bocas2025

📣 Teens, are you passionate about storytelling through words, illustrations, and music? Ever dreamed about creating a graphic novel? 🙌 #ProjectFusionJunction is looking for 15 teens from T&T to be part of an amazing project! Details at🔗 bocaslitfest.com/project-fusion… #bocas2025

We are thrilled to share news of UN|FOLD 2025: a #zinemakers + #DIYpublishers meetup hosted by Alice Yard + SPEC* 🗓Sat 9 Aug 🕓4-8 pm 📍Granderson Lab, 24 Erthig Road, Belmont, POS More info at: instagram.com/p/DMddNvhx-NE/

So happy to get my hands on Amanda Smyth’s latest LOOK AT YOU 😍 And thank you to Bocas Lit Fest for all you do to bring Caribbean writers together - we can be pretty reclusive x

Thanks to all who joined us at The Writers Centre for a lovely evening with Amanda Smyth, author of Look at You, who discussed her new novel-in-stories with Shivanee Ramlochan. More at: facebook.com/share/p/15waT8… #bocas2025 Paper Based Bookshop Novel Niche 🫒 Peepal Tree Press

📣 Teens, are you passionate about storytelling through words, illustrations and music? 🙌 Project Fusion Junction is looking for 15 teens to be part of an amazing project. 🔗 bocaslitfest.com/project-fusion… #bocas2025 #projectfusionjunction @britishcouncil Fighting Words NI