Introducing the 2025 Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival

This year, the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival becomes a literary botánica, a sacred space where story meets ritual and memory becomes medicine.

Set in Brooklyn, a living archive of Caribbean migration and imagination, Root & Remedy gathers writers, readers, and storytellers to share the remedies they carry: novels, poems, plays, and oral traditions that ground us in a time of upheaval.

In this season of exile and erasure, we gather not just to read but to remember, not just to heal but to fight. These stories are the bush tea we boil, the prayers we whisper, the songs that remind us where we come from even as the ground shifts beneath us.

From personal heartbreak to collective grief, from exile to reinvention, this festival asks:

What stories heal us? What truths keep us rooted?

Welcome to the Literary Botánica.

Here, every story is a cure. Every voice, a root.

Pre-Festival Events

What People Saying

  • “A gathering of the literary and artistic tribes from all corners of the Caribbean and South America.”

    Burnett Coburn

  • An ambitious and incredibly well-executed event. Brava!

    Lala La Loca

  • Very well organized and a great exposition of Writers of the Caribbean diaspora

    Amina Susi Ali

  • It make me remember…why I write novels and all kinda books, because is stories that make us a people

    Kei Miller