Sweet Li Jie by David Dabydeen in the running for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature

David Dabydeen's latest novel, Sweet Li Jie has been shortlisted for the Caribbean's biggest literary prize. Books by fifteen authors with roots in eight countries have been shortlisted for the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, sponsored by One Caribbean Media. Presented annually since 2011, the OCM Bocas Prize is the most coveted award for Caribbean.

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Leeds: Poetry reading by Adalber Salas Hernández

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Date: Tuesday 25 March 2025, 7pm
Location: Alumni Room, School of English, Cavendish Road, University of Leeds
Admission: Free, all welcome

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Berkley Wendell Semple

Berkley Wendell Semple was born in Guyana. He has published four collections of poetry, Lamplight Teller, awarded a 2004 Guyana Prize for Poetry, The Solo Flyer, The Central Station, and Flight and Other Poems, awarded the 2023 Guyana Prize for Literature, and has edited a book of student poems. His poetry and fiction have appeared in Callaloo, The Hampden-Sydney Review, The Caribbean Writer, for which he was awarded a Daily News Prize for poetry, and many other publications.

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