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
This program is free; registration is required and includes Museum general admission. Register below for more details.
This is a PAID workshop; payment is required to register. Once payment is received, the Zoom link will be forwarded to you.
In partnership with Greenlight Bookstore, local Trinidadian author Camille U. Adams launches her debut memoir. Cocktail reception to follow.
Pre-Festival 2025 Guest Authors
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Celeste Mohammed
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Camille U. Adams
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Niama Safia Sandy
Festival Sponsors
Programming Partners
Festival Partners
Festival Patrons
Mrs. Phoebe Blake, Mrs. Lauren Francis-Sharma, Mr. Shanon Fable
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