WORD! A Caribbean Book Fest

26 May 2014 news 0 Comments

WORD! – A Caribbean Book Fest

Sunday, June 8, 2014.  2:00 – 8:00pm

Medgar Evers College, 1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225
718-783-8345 / 718-270-6917 / 718-270-6218 /
info@caribbeantheatre.org
 
WORD! (5x7) Front - NandiWORD! – Business
Getting published.  Getting noticed.
Avril Ashton – Secret Cravings Publishing, Ashton Franklin – Franklin & Franklin Publishing; Johanna Ingalls – Akashic Books; Ron Kavanaugh, Mosaic Literary Magazine
 
WORD! – Youth
Books and stories for all ages from tots to teens; and Open Mic
Chen Chin (Jamaica), Joanne Skerrett (Dominica), CJ Farley (Jamaica), Kellie Magnus (Jamaica), Carol Ottley-Mitchell (St. Kitts – Nevis), Clyde Viechweg (Grenada); Ibi Zoboi (Haiti)
 
WORD! –  Art
Writer as visual artist/illustrator
Ricardo Cortes (Mexico), Anna Ruth Henriques (Jamaica), Deborah Jack (St. Marteen/St. Martin), Laura James (Antigua), Iyaba Mandingo (Antigua & Barbuda), Michèle Voltaire Marcellin (Haiti),
 
WORD! – Fiction
New Books.  New Voices.              
D C Campbell (Grenada), Lloyd Crooks (Trinidad & Tobago), Hubert Guscott (Jamaica), Nyasha Laing (US/Belize), Petra Lewis (Trinidad & Tobago), Adam Mansbach (USA), Idrissa Simmonds (Canada/Haiti/Jamaica), Monique Simón (Antigua & Barbuda), Katia Ulysse (Haiti); Annette Vendryes Leach (Panama)
 
WORD! – Poetry
Poets & Passion 
Negus Tehuti Adeyemi (US/Barbados), AJA (Barbados), Arielle John (Trinidad & Tobago), Hermina Marcellin (St. Lucia), David Mills (US/Jamaica), Ras Osagyefo (Jamaica), Anthony Polanco (Panama), Jason Price (Belize), Maria Rodriguez (Puerto Rico), Yolaine St. Fort (Haiti), Mervyn Taylor (Trinidad & Tobago); Ras Yah Yah (St. Lucia)
 
WORD! – You
DONATION: $10 – adults.  $5.00 – children