Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival

The submission window for PREE 13 is now open! You have till August 31 to write a breathtaking, mind-bending, electrifying piece for us. All serious submissions receive editorial feedback, whether we publish your work or not preelit.com/contact/

Meet the wonderful Portia Subran, 2024 #CWprize winner for the Caribbean region and also a finalist in our 2022 Short Story Contest edition!

Today! 💥

@cwfcreatives @TheBrooklynRail Thanks for sharing!

📣 Publishing opportunity! 📚 @bklyncbeanlit is still accepting short fiction from unpublished/self-published Caribbean writers. Submit up to 3,000 words for a chance to win $1,750 and be published in @thebrooklynrail. Deadline: 1 July. Learn more: commonwealthfoundation.com/opportunity/th…

This Caribbean Heritage month and LGBTQ+ Pride month, we are celebrating by pairing wines with LGBTQ+ Caribbean books! In four rounds of tastings, you’ll learn about the wine you’re sampling and hear an excerpt from a novel that complements the notes, read by actor Jermaine Rowe.

Come spend the evening getting lost in the life of Grenada-born Louise Langdon Little, the mother of Malcolm X! Merle Collins will present her new book at @greenlightbklyn, in conversation with fellow daughter of Grenada, multicreative artist and dancer, Rachel Oneika Phillips.

ATTENTION, mark your calendars! Two events happening this week 👇 Celebrate #ReadCaribbean and #CaribbeanAmericanHeritage Month with us!

@TheSpokenMind @northwesternup ♥️

We're back after a long period of silence here! 🎉 And we're making a grand entrance. We're thrilled to announce that the Internal Revenue Service awarded us the status that officially makes us a 501(c)(3)! Talk, nah!

Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/CsBY9Gcu6a4/…

Caribbean storytellers killing dem wid lyrics and a smile @BurnettCoburn @ImagiRyan

We worked with Trinidad-born woodsmith, Safa Petrina, to create these originals for this year’s contest winners @AlexiaTolas and @yvedykes. More about the prize and the winning stories on bklyncbeanlitfest.com come October 1st!

It’s a winner! I’m so excited and thankful to the organizers and judges @bklyncbeanlit 🥰. Knowing that someone laughed, their gut pinched, and their arm hair stood up makes it worth the while. I can’t wait to share this story of love, obsession, and cuckoo soup with you all 😊

@Cosmata1 @AlexiaTolas Stories will be published on Oct 1st! Stay tuned

@AlexiaTolas @bklyncbeanlit I am definitely looking forward to reading it, congrats!

@akhimalexis1 @AlexiaTolas From one winner to another! 👑

✨️2022 WINNERS #Brooklyn #CaribbeanLiteraryFestival @bklyncbeanlit #elizabethnunez Prize: #YvekaPierre 🇭🇹 #haiti #Alexiatolas 🇧🇸 #bahamas - Congrats ALL #caribbeanwriters placing ● #judges 🇧🇧🇯🇲 🇭🇹 #shortstories #caribbeanliterature #representation #seawomanscaribbeanwriting

Storytelling is a love language. We’ve captured the voices of today’s Caribbean writers on our podcast #BCLFCocoaPod Follow and download episodes wherever you listen to podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bcl… #caribbeanliterature #readcaribbean

@afrobella @Essence Thank you @afrobella - we’re so much greater than the labels given us. Excited at this work which amplifies our writers