Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF) is a New York City-based 501(c)(3) organisation that celebrates Caribbean literature and the region’s history of storytelling to the United States first, then wider global audiences. It is a showcase of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet. The BCLF vision is to create a platform for community ownership of the oral and written stories of Caribbean people.

Established in 2019, it is the only literary festival dedicated to Caribbean literature in the United States. The festival has gathered more than two hundred and fifty (250) writers including Jamaica Kincaid, Lorna Goodison, Esmeralda Santiago, Velma Pollard, Sir Hilary Beckles and Safiya Sinclair around its literary campside, and aims to promote Caribbean literary scholarship to the literature-loving population, and those with an especial fondness for Caribbean culture. 

Through our work, we encourage and inspire young people of Caribbean descent to find joy, identity and belonging in the told and untold stories of our region. 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.