The NGC Bocas Lit Fest which recently had it’s debut in the United States at the 2012 Brooklyn Book Festival makes it’s way down to Miami to be a part of the 31st annual West Indian Literature Conference starting on the 13th of October.
Original Poster for the Bocas Lit Festival 2012 by Nikolai Noel
The body of water Miami faces is the Atlantic Ocean, but — 180 miles from Nassau, 220 miles from Havana — there’s no doubt it’s also a Caribbean city. And for a few days in mid-October, Miami will also be a major hub for Caribbean literary scholarship, as the University of Miami hosts the 31st annual West Indian Literature Conference, with the theme “Imagined Nations, 50 Years Later: Reflections on Independence and Federation in the Caribbean.”
And the NGC Bocas Lit Fest will be part of the mix! We’ll be hosting a reading by five remarkable writers of different generations, as part of the closing night events of the WILC — and everyone is invited.
The details:
Nations and Imaginations: An Evening with the NGC Bocas Lit Fest in Miami Features 2012 OCM Bocas Prize winner Earl Lovelace, 2013 OCM Bocas Prize chair Olive Senior, Edwidge Danticat, Edward Baugh, and Lisa Allen-Agostini. The event starts on Saturday 13 October, 8 pm Books and Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables
The event is free and open to the public and all Bocas fans in Miami.
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