WORD! – A Caribbean Book Fest  Call for Writers

Sunday 8 June 2014
2:00pm- 8:00pm
Medgar Evers College,
1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Deadline: 8 March, 2014

Interested writers should contact poets@caribbeantheatre.org with a brief outline of published work and/or work to be presented.

Caribbean Cultural Theatre invites established and emerging writers of published works to participate in the third staging of WORD! – A Caribbean Book Fest at Medgar Evers College -City University of New York on Sunday 8 June, 2014. This coming together of authors and storytellers, readers and literary curious coincides with Caribbean American Heritage Month and is held in Brooklyn, NY – the world’s largest Caribbean meeting place.

Creative writers and poets whose work may include, but not limited to, issues of identities, migration and assimilation, resistance, politics, gender and sexuality, oral narratives and storytelling, language, sports and pastimes in the Caribbean and its Diaspora.  Young writers, first-time published writers, and those writing with a youth focus are especially encouraged to respond.

Above adapted from CFP.