Newsday Reporter
THE Bocas Lit Fest has launched Term II of its Bocas Academy.
In a news delivery on December 18, Bocas Lit Fest marketing and marketing and media supervisor Alette Liz Williams said the academy is “a multi-level curriculum of writing workshops and masterclasses designed to make authors at every stage of their careers.”
It said the timeframe begins in January with a vision board workshop for writers, led by creator and editor Neala Luna.
At an in-particular person session at The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Boulevard, St Clair on 11 January, contributors will doubtless be guided by Luna to generate tangible, actionable desires linked to their writing ambitions. Luna has led over 100 vision board contributors to actualise their inventive targets in connected classes.
Writers and creatives working in all genres and mediums are encouraged to assist this workshop.
There could be a registration payment of $350 for the workshop.
Self-published writers, and those eager about embarking on first-time e-newsletter, are in focus all the strategy through February 2025 within the Write a E book, Receive it Published! three-section series.
Three industry consultants will bring focused seminars on key aspects of self-publishing and the e-newsletter rush.
On February 1, Troy Hadeed, creator of My Identify is Cherish, will candidly portion his experiences and offer insights on the avenue to e-newsletter of his debut non-fiction work.
On February 8, award-a success graphic clothier Melanie Archer will lead a session on the importance of guide originate to a e-newsletter’s success.
On February 15, Alice Besson, managing director of Paria Publishing, will define the feature of a creator in guiding a guide to its final, saleable originate. All three parts of Write a E book, Receive it Published! will doubtless be pleased shut place virtually through Zoom. The payment per session is $300; contributors attending all three classes will pay a discounted payment of $800.
Award-a success novelist and speedy story creator Leone Ross will lead a fiction masterclass in March 2025 on writing want. Ross, creator of the 2022 Ladies folk’s Prize–longlisted original This One Sky Day, will educate the masterclass virtually through Zoom across three classes on March 8, 15, and 22.
Every session will specialize in a queer ingredient of writing want: writing luxuriate in, writing sex, writing darkness/taboo.
The registration payment is $900.
“The alive to pastime generated by Term I of the Bocas Academy used to be both encouraging, and a signifier of how worthy these courses are wanted by our internet Caribbean writers,” said Shivanee Ramlochan, Bocas Lit Fest’s competition and programme supervisor.
“In Term II, Bocas Lit Fest strengthens the foundations of the Bocas Academy by offering a broad vary in route diversity, catering to a matching vary of skill and ride level. There’s something here for every creator, no topic their e-newsletter history or lack thereof. All are with out a doubt welcome.”
Members within the Bocas Academy will additionally internet procure admission to to free handy resource kits, alumni events and obtain certificates final touch.
For more recordsdata and to register, focus on with www.academy.bocaslitfest.com or e-mail workshops@bocaslitfest.com.
