4/4 Her influence continues to live on in the students she guided and the stories they now have the confidence to tell.

The Bocas Lit Fest team sends condolences to Danielle's family, friends, colleagues, and everyone moved by her life and art.

📷 Michele Jorsling, via T&T Newsday

3/4 A friend of Bocas, Danielle made a profound impact through her work with our youth programmes. She approached every workshop with patience, care, and a passion for nurturing young creative voices by giving them the tools to express themselves boldly and creatively. .../4

2/4 …and producing dramatic, educational, environmental, political, and business projects for local, regional, and international audiences, Danielle was an advocate, not only for the Caribbean film industry but also for Caribbean voices. .../3

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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7/8 “Jeremy has such a great respect for the work and for the writing itself. He is a top editor and a brilliant editor. That shows how much he thinks of whatever you've given him, in that it can be taken to another level.” Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. …/8

6/8 “Culture is constantly evolving, and we have gone through some really rapid changes in the Caribbean, and as a society. To have somebody [like Peepal Tree] understand the importance of capturing [all of these] moments is unbelievable.” J. Vijay Maharaj; …/7

5/8 “Out of all the authors that he handles, Jeremy remembers your particular circumstances and your journey [as an author] and is willing to meet you wherever you are. You feel seen, and part of something, not just working blindly in isolation.” @dboodoofortune.bsky.social; …/6

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

3/8 “I walked into a room and I recognised its furniture, its paintings… I looked out the window and I saw a banana tree and to the right, a peepal tree. I have felt at home at Peepal Tree.” James Christopher Aboud; …/4

2/8 ...and, in conversation with Nicholas Laughlin about the publisher’s role in shaping contemporary Caribbean writing, shared what @peepaltreepress.bsky.social and its founder Jeremy Poynting have meant to them. In their own words: .../3

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