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Episode 60 | Ascot - Olive Senior (Jamaica) narrated by Sashawna…
Episode 60 | Ascot - Olive Senior (Jamaica) narrated by Sashawna…
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BCLF Cocoa Pod is a Caribbean storytelling experience in which writers of Caribbean heritage narrate their own stories. Each story is a seed, a nugget of an original work of fiction, rich with the rhythm, pitch and intonation of the one who wrote it. It is Caribbean storytelling told in the best way possible - in the voice of the place(s) that inspired it, imbued with the magic and accents of the region. BCLF Cocoa Pod is an original production of the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival (BCLF)Follow the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival on IG and FB @bklyncbeanlitfestVisit www.bklyncbeanlitfest.com
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- Episode 60 | Ascot - Olive Senior (Jamaica) narrated by Sashawna Thompson · 23 min · Kausi 4 Jakso 1Season 4 of BCLF Cocoa Pod opens with the classic short story, Ascot, by writing legend,Olive Senior. Originally anthologized in her landmark collection 'Summer Lightning and…
- Episode 58 | Spoken Word - amilcar sanatan (Trinidad & Tobago) · 17 minTracing a lineage from Ragga Soca, Rapso, and Extempo to legendary carnival speech characters like the Pierrot Grenade, Baby Doll, and Midnight Robber, this podcast proves that…
- Episode 57 | The Dead Cat Tail Assassins - P. Djeli Clark (Trinidad & Tobago) · 12 min · Jakso 57Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and…
- EPISODE 56 | Red - Niama Safia Sandy (SVG) · 7 minNiama Safia Sandy is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, curator, organizer, and change agent. Her essay “Red” weaves a meandering tale that touches on Sandy’s coming of…
- Episode 50 | Bush Bath - Brandon McIvor (Trinidad & Tobago) - 2025 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean · 21 minOf all contest entries, Bush Bath is perhaps the embodiment of the 2025 festival contest theme, Remedies of Root. Penned by Brandon McIvor, it traces a man on a visit to Trinidad…
- Episode 51 | Quality Time - Kodi-Anne Brown (Jamaica) - 2025 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writer's Prize · 19 minQuality Time by Kodi-Anne Brown is the winner of the BCLF Short Story contest for 2025. Described by judge, Patricia Powell, as "...simple and quiet and unsettling and tender and…
- Hungry Ghosts - Kevin Jared Hosein (Trinidad & Tobago) · 15 minOn a hill overlooking Bell Village sits the Changoor farm, where Dalton and Marlee Changoor live in luxury unrecognisable to those who reside in the farm's shadow. Down below is…
- The Galaxy Game - Karen Lord (Barbados) · 17 minOn the verge of adulthood, Rafi attends the Lyceum, a school for the psionically gifted. Rafi possesses mental abilities that might benefit people . . . or control them. Some…
- Please Take One - Portia Subran (Trinidad & Tobago) - 2022 Finalist BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean · 12 min‘Please Take One’ follows Lloyd, an elderly resident of Chaguanas, as he embarks on a series of desperate attempts to capture the attention of an aloof supermarket clerk. Portia…
- Zo and the Forest of Secrets by Alake Pilgrim feat Q&A with Kai Muhammad (Trinidad & Tobago) · 17 minKai Muhammad is an avid BCLF reader who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Zo and the Forest of Secrets is one of his favorite middle grade level Caribbean books. He was overjoyed for…
- When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Trinidad & Tobago) · 19 minA mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about…
- Derron Sandy Reads from The Chaos · 15 minEnjoy readings from The Chaos, Derron Sandy's poetry pamphlet, where his subjects are the individuals and communities who suffer most from injustice, poverty and violence in…
- Nightmare Island - Shakira Bourne (Barbados) · 16 minTwelve year-old Serenity Noah has never told anyone about her recurring nightmares -- the haunting images of silver butterflies whose flapping wings drive away all sound, leaving…
- A Million Aunties - Alecia Mc Kenzie (Jamaica) · 10 minAlecia McKenzie is a Jamaican writer based in France. Her first collection of short stories, Satellite City, and her novel Sweetheart have both won Commonwealth literary prizes…
- The Fix - Alexia Tolas (Bahamas) - Winner 2022 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean · 12 minWinner 2022 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean “The Fix” is a story of love, obsession, and obeah that follows a young woman as she seeks advice from an…
- Episode 49 | Traveling Freely Essays - Roberto Carlos-Garcia (Dominican Republic) · 16 min · Jakso 49In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, American socioeconomic inequality, police violence, our inability to…
