#Bocas2018: Writers Respond to People's Choice
Sharing a taste of your new book to an audience of readers and writers must be a daunting task but the finalists of the inaugural People's Choice TT Book of the Year Award made it look easy at Hart Arcade on the final day of Bocas 2018. They congratulated their fellow competitors and seamlessly segued into their readings. Some swayed to the rhythm of their own poetry while others stood confidently and allowed their bodies to be governed by the punctuation of their prose. The finalists are Nichola Harvey with 21 Powerful P’s to Success, D.H. Gibbs and her book Don’t Go Mango Picking, Shivanee Ramlochan's Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting, Lyndon Baptiste with Men and Misfits, Kevin Jared Hosein and The Repenters and Michelle Borel's Soulspection: A Collection of Poetry . This initiative by Bocas Lit Fest,together with Newsday and NALIS, aims to promote local writing in various genres and put the power into the hands of the readers to choose the winner.