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“Andre Bagoo is a fearless, brilliant mind.” – Ilya Kaminsky
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Read Issue 25’s editorial at mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/e...

#Moko #MokoMagazine #MokoIssue25 #ReadCaribbean #CaribbeanArtsAndLetters
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Announcing Moko 25: MADE IN THE CARIBBEAN

With

Marckenson Jean-Baptiste, Ariel Francisco, Althea Romeo-Mark, Deneka Thomas, Niala Maharaj, Caroline Mackenzie, Breanne Mc Ivor, Diana McCaulay, Kvita Mongroo, Nicholas Huggins, June Aming, Ruth Osman, Keeron Isaac, and more!

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November 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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bocaslitfest.bsky.social
8/8 Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Writers Centre. We look forward to celebrating more @peepaltreepress.bsky.social titles for years to come.
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#bocas2025 #PeepalTreeRubyJubilee
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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1/8 In celebration of the 40th anniversary of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social, a leading publisher of Caribbean literature, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social marked the literary milestone with a special event featuring 5 Peepal Tree authors. Each read from a Peepal Tree title especially meaningful to them.../2
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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4/8 “Finding a home, a space where you can assume your fullest voice without any need to translate who you are; there's this reverence and respect and genuine enthusiasm for the region. Jeremy himself takes the region very seriously.” @abagoo.bsky.social …/5
November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I’ll be joining @bocaslitfest.bsky.social ‘s 40th anniversary celebration of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social this week, reading from a Peepal Tree title that is especially meaningful to me. Which book shall I read from? There’s only one way to find out. Come on down.

#Bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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📣The pioneering publishing house @peepaltreepress.bsky.social turns 40 in 2025! Join us on Sat 8th Nov to celebrate with a special readings from five Peepal Tree authors: James Christopher Aboud, Andre Bagoo, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, J. Vijay Maharaj, and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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2/2 We're celebrating #PeepalTreesRubyJubilee with James Christopher Aboud, @abagoo.bsky.social, @dboodoofortune.bsky.social, #JVijayMaharaj, and #Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw
🗓 Sat 08 Nov 🕥5.30 pm
📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
#bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress
October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Callaloo
Volume 43, Number 2, Spring 2025
tinyurl.com/5f5r96es

CONTRIBUTORS
Keenan Norris
Mark Winston Griffith
Brian Muraya
Dashiell Moore
Dereka Thomas
Candace Howze
Hiwot Adilow
O'Neil Arnold
Megan Feifer
E. Gale Greenlee
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
and more!
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Callaloo Volume 43, Number 2, Spring 2025 CONTRIBUTORS Keenan Norris Mark Winston Griffith Brian Muraya Dashiell Moore Dereka Thomas Candace Howze Hiwot Adilow O'Neil Arnold Megan Feifer E. Gale Greenlee M. Shadee Malaklou Alexis Pauline Gumbs Joy James Libby Falk Jones Kiana T. Murphy Natassja B. Gunasena Denise Miller Randy Winston Danny Bellinger E. Hughes Etim Singkem Alex Tretbar Kassy Lee Matthieu Chapman Topher Allen Andre Bagoo Mia S. Willis Joy Notoma Clemonce Heard Tatiana Richards Hanebutte Tryphena Yeboah Renoir Gaither April Gibson Shanna L. Smith Tony Medina Jodi-Ann Burey Richard Hamilton
August 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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I have a short story, ‘The Windrush Generation’, in the latest issue of Callaloo. Special thank you to Luke Hankins & Charles Holm and executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres. Find out more at @callaloojournal.bsky.social 🙏🏾

#shortstories #fiction #writingconmunity
September 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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And here I am peeping out from the pages of the Autumn 2025 issue of Wasafiri. Thank you Jarula M I Wegner and editor Sanya Goyal. 🙏🏾

#interview #writingcommunity #bookstagram

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September 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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📣 Orders are now open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 123!

Find interviews with Andre Bagoo, Cato Pedder, and Christina Sharpe, three translated Tamil poets, a poem by Devika Rege, and more fiction, reviews, articles, and poems.

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Wasafiri 123
Inside Wasafiri 123, you'll find interviews with Andre Bagoo and Christina Sharpe, a lead feature poem by Devika Rege, our 2024 Essay Prize winning articles…
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September 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Our Autumn issue – Wasafiri 123 – is available to preorder now!

Includes interviews with @abagoo.bsky.social and Christina Sharpe, our 2024 Essay Prize winners, and a Tibetan writers and artists showcase, alongside our usual mix of fiction, poetry, reviews, and more.

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August 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
abagoo.bsky.social
I finally got my hands on my contributor’s copy of NATURE MATTERS, edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf.

My poem takes us to a small Ti Marie or touch-me-not plant growing at the centre of the Queen’s Park Savannah, just before it shuts to the touch.
July 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
abagoo.bsky.social
I have three new poems (‘Epithalamium’ ‘Anti-Epithalamium’ and ‘Prothalamion’) published over at COMP: an interdisciplinary journal. Thank you to the brilliant editor, Jaydn DeWald. Just in time for Pride. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨

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#poetry #writingcommunity #pride #booksky
July 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
abagoo.bsky.social
My work is featured in DIAGRAM 25.2. Thank you editor Ander Monson.

#poetry #bestiaries #writingcommunity
July 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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'This anthology is a revelation.' Guardian Best Recent Poetry
'A groundbreaking testament to our natural world.' Bernardine Evaristo
'Vigorous and timely.' Sathnam Sanghera

Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority publishes today 🌱
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May 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Pleased to have work in this anthology edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Mona Arshi and out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social 🍃✨
May 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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"Incantatory, spell-binding and resonant, they linger on the mind. We are delighted to share them." Judge Andre Bagoo (@pleasureblog)

Sponsored by @ALCS and @Hawthornden Foundation, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is awarded for a short story of up to 5,000 words

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May 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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‘Incantatory, spell-binding and resonant’ –announcing the 2025 Society of Authors’ Awards shortlists
The seven shortlists celebrate prose, poetry & children’s literature, ahead of the ceremony on 18 June
Tom Newland’s Only Here, Only Now receives two nominations – the only title to do so
May 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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And how lovely to see the International Booker Prize go to a book of short stories!

Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi, and @andotherstories.bsky.social
andotherstories.bsky.social And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · May 20
Congratulations to Deepa Bhasthi and Banu Mushtaq, winners of this year’s International Booker Prize. We’re hugely honoured to publish HEART LAMP. Our deepest thanks to the judges and, indeed, to all of you who have read and loved this extraordinary collection.
May 21, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Poetry aglow with the strangeness of living.
— Andre Bagoo

Cohesive and constantly dismantling... Ingram reminds us that we are far from alone.
— Troy Cabida

a broadsheet collage of urban historicity, tuned to the scale of a razor.
— Kirsten Norrie

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Nothing is safe from collection! I asked, What’s in the cupboard under the stairs? You mean the spandrel, said Dr Molden, pulling a jotter from the shelf. He flipped to the index. Sixteen boxes of archival papers beginning November ’84 and ending whenever I—. He dragged his thumbnail across his neck as if beheading were the only way to stop him. SALE BY AUCTION January 9, 1769 Everything must go. The genuine and entire household furniture, China, and wearing apparel of Mrs Stephens* deceased in her late dwelling house on X. Sale to begin at eleven in the morning. (No end-time stated. Incidentally, the doomsayer who now dwells in the dwelling house shoots pamphlets through my letterbox. They ask in Caslon font WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? Simple: be taken in by the doctor or let the flames tickle you to ash.) *Under common law, the property – and everything inside it, including her – belonged to Mr Stephens, who presumably submitted the ad and pocketed the proceeds.
May 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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RIP Alice Notley (1945-2025). Here is a page from The Descent of Alette.
May 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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A pleasure being on the judging panel for this prize ✨ @societyofauthors.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with: @westofwestindian.bsky.social, @abagoo.bsky.social, Yvonne Weekes, Anthony Joseph, and more! Full album at: facebook.com/media/set?va...
#alwayscominghome
May 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM