Workshop
May 11
Online
New York, NY
How To Write A Winning Short Story 2024 with Roland Watson-Grant
This 7-hour masterclass will provide writers with inventive skills to bring their short story writing to international competition level. It is for writers who have already attempted fiction but need feedback in a supportive, workshop environment that will help their writing develop and progress.
Who Are We
The BCLF is keen on exploring the rich depth of Caribbean culture and its centuries' long tradition of storytelling, with the hopes of empowering and motivating the hidden storyteller of Caribbean descent to find the courage to tell his/her own story and write from the unique lens of that heritage.
We work tirelessly to promote the Caribbean literature genre to cultural enthusiasts, bibliophiles and lit-lovers. We aim to amplify the excluded stories of Caribbean people who have long contributed to and built the diverse heritage of the wider North American diaspora.
Book of the Month
An Inconvenient Cop: My Fight To Change Policing in America by Edwin Raymond and Jon Sternfeld
Description:
From the highest-ranking whistleblower in NYPD history, a gripping insider look at the complexities of modern policing and the urgent need for reform.
Over his decade and a half with the New York Police Department, Edwin Raymond consistently exposed the dark underbelly of modern policing, becoming the highest-ranking whistleblower in the history of the force and one of the country’s leading voices against police injustice. Offering a rare, often shocking view of American policing, An Inconvenient Cop pulls back the curtain on the many flaws woven into the NYPD’s training, data, and practices, which have since been repackaged and repurposed by police departments across the country.
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Our Amazing Partners & Sponsors
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“Was fun, was family, was spreading Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival joy through the borough and beyond.”
Barbara Jenkins, Trinidad writer
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“This was an ambitious and incredibly well-executed event.” Brava!
Lauren Alleyne, Trinidadian-American poet, fiction, and nonfiction writer and educator
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“An explosion of Caribbean culture, a celebration of Caribbean people with all the colours of our accents. What joy to be in rooms with all these people who love Caribbean culture, to make new friends, to buy five dollar books, to meet people in the US who read my book (and liked it!). "
Breanne Mc Ivor, Trinidadian Author & Co-Founder of People's Republic of Writing (PROW)
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"The BCLF was a thrilling experience. I felt proud and inspired to see my culture and experience expressed so beautifully in words and in spirit by the wide array of writers from the Caribbean space. I look forward to what they have in store for us next year."
Paul Pryce, Producer/Writer/Actor
