Bocas Lit Fest has introduced the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature shortlists. Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight international locations have been shortlisted. Winners of the three style classes can be introduced on April 6, 2025, and the general winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature can be introduced on Saturday Might 3, 2025, on the annual Bocas Lit Fest in Port of Spain. Right here’s the data (from bocaslitfest):
The authors of the 5 books shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry embrace two veterans alongside three debut poets:
Polkadot Wounds, by Anthony Vahni Capildeo (T&T/Scotland) (Carcanet Press)
West of West Indian, by Linzey Corridon (St Vincent and the Grenadines) (Mawenzi Home Publishers Ltd.)
A few of Us Can Go Again Dwelling, by Yashika Graham (Jamaica) (Blue Banyan Books)
Getting Via: New and Chosen Poems, by Mervyn Taylor (T&T) (@BeltwayEditions)
Coco Island, by Christine Roseeta Walker (Jamaica) (Carcanet Press)
The 5 books shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction equally convey collectively three first-time authors with two already celebrated multi-genre writers:
Village Weavers, by Myriam J. A. Chancy (Haiti) (Tin Home)
Candy Li Jie, by David Dabydeen (Guyana) (Peepal Tree Press)
The Pages of the Sea, by Anne Hawk (T&T) (Weatherglass Books)
The Believers, by A.Okay. Herman (T&T) (A.R. Phillips Press)
Sweetness within the Pores and skin, by Ishi Robinson (Jamaica) (HarperCollins/PenguinUKbooks)
The books shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Nonfiction are extremely numerous in matter and strategy, tackling autobiography, household memoir, historical past, and cultural evaluation:
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck, by Dionne Model (T&T/Canada) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
We’re Alone, by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/US) (Graywolf Press)
Resistance Refuge Revival: The Indigenous Kalinagos of Dominica, by Lennox Honychurch (Dominica) (Papillote Press)
World Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Atmosphere within the Caribbean and Past, by Oneka LaBennett (Guyana/US) (NYU Press)
Mom Archive: A Dominican Household Memoir, by Erika Morillo (Dominican Republic) (College of Iowa Press)
The OCM Bocas Prize, now in its fifteenth consecutive yr, is probably the most coveted award for Caribbean books — the prize all Caribbean writers hope to win. Yearly, it recognises books in three style classes — poetry, fiction, and literary non-fiction — revealed by authors of Caribbean start or citizenship within the previous yr.
The OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is sponsored by One Caribbean Media Restricted and administered by the Bocas Lit Fest.
For extra in regards to the shortlisted books, go to https://bocaslitfest.com/awards/ocm/
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