Workshops

Note: This workshop is full and registration is now closed.  With comics and graphic novels now firmly established as literary forms, many writers dream of exploring the genre — but... Read More

The Forward Prize-shortlisted UK poet leads a hand-on session exploring the “metic experience,” exploring issues of identity, race, and migration through the eyes of foreigners and exiles. In partnership with... Read More

Contemporary writers are expected to be masterful performers of their own work. But what if you lack the dramatic skills to pull it off? Actor and director Janet Steel leads... Read More

Please note that this workshop is full and registration is now closed.  Characters who seize the reader’s imagination: that’s every author’s goal. Celebrated fiction writer and poet Marcia Douglas shows... Read More

Trinidad was once the 3rd highest producer of cacao in the world and has always been known as having some of the finest flavoured beans.  Even the now concreted streets... Read More

Note: This workshop is full and registration is now closed. Sometimes the most painful topics are the ones we feel most driven to write about, but how do you turn... Read More

A specially conceived tour for NGC Bocas Lit Fest patrons, facilitated by The Alliance of Rural Communities of Trinidad and Tobago. Starting with the Library collection to comprehend the complex history... Read More

Note: This workshop is full and registration is now closed. Sometimes the best stories are the most concise. But writing short-short fiction requires a particular discipline and specific skills. Jamaican... Read More