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BCLF Cocoa Pod

Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival

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

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Episode 58 | Spoken Word - amilcar sanatan (Trinidad...

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2026/02/11

Tracing 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 spoken word is a cultural force and tradition in Trinidad and Tobago. Join amílcar peter sanatan as he wanders through the steelpan yards of East Port-of-Spain, the ache of tabanca and bombastic badness in "Robber Talk." Immerse yourself in the rhythms, songs, and metaphors of a people who claim transform every s...

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Episode 57 | The Dead Cat Tail Assassins - P. Djeli...

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2026/02/11

Eveen 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 her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins—resurrected from death and wiped of their memories—have only three unbreakable vows. First, the contract must be just. Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. The third and the simplest: once you accept a job, you must carry it ...

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EPISODE 55 | Singing With the Orphans - Diana...

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2025/12/24

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EPISODE 56 | Red - Niama Safia Sandy (SVG)

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2025/12/24

Niama 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 age through rememberings of family lore, food, and key engagements with cultural organizing anchored through sorrel. The essay considers the ubiquitous staple Caribbean holiday drink as a microcosm of the collisions of political histories, desire and ancestral memory. Sandy's work across disciplines delves into t...

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EPISODE 52 | A Christmas Eve Wedding - Tamika Gibson...

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2025/12/23

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EPISODE 54 | Making Pastelles in Dickensland -...

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2025/12/23

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Episode 51 | Quality Time - Kodi-Anne Brown (Jamaica)...

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2025/11/26

Quality 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 wonderfully turned," it follows a girl on a rare visit with her father who endures his shallow, rehearsed affection. When she is left with a babysister to care for unexpectedly, something unplanned happens. Quality Time confronts the tension common in familiar relationships within the Caribbean familial ecosystem wit...

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Episode 50 | Bush Bath - Brandon McIvor (Trinidad &...

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2025/11/26

Of 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 to see his dying mother, who abandoned him as a child. He delays the meeting, instead taking a symbolic "bush bath" in a forest pool to cleanse his pain. There, a recovered memory reveals his mother didn't save him from danger, but first let him go. As the story unfolds, McIvor's main character must decide whether to...

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The Galaxy Game - Karen Lord (Barbados)

BCLF Cocoa Pod ·

2025/11/19

On 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 wish to help Rafi wield his powers responsibly; others see him as a threat to be contained. Rafi’s only freedom at the Lyceum is Wallrunning: a game of speed and agility played on vast vertical surfaces riddled with variable gravity fields. Serendipity and Ntenman are also students at the Lyceum, but unlike Rafi, they c...

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The Human Origins of Beatrice Potter - Soraya Palmer...

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2025/11/19

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Please Take One - Portia Subran (Trinidad & Tobago) -...

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2025/11/19

‘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 Subran is a writer and artist from Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Hungry Ghosts - Kevin Jared Hosein (Trinidad & Tobago)

BCLF Cocoa Pod ·

2025/11/19

On 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 barrack, a ramshackle building of wood and tin, divided into rooms occupied by whole families. Among these families are the Saroops - Hans, Shweta, and their son, Krishna, who live hard lives of backbreaking work, grinding poverty and devotion to faith. When Dalton Changoor goes missing and Marlee's safety is com...

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When We Were Birds - Ayanna Lloyd Banwo (Trinidad &...

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2025/11/12

A 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 inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal. In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide’s mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: one St Bernard woman in every generation has the power to shepherd the city’s souls into the afterlife. But after years ...

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Zo and the Forest of Secrets by Alake Pilgrim feat...

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2025/11/12

Kai 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 the opportunity to ask Alake, the book’s writer, some of the many burning questions he had about the thrilling adventures of her characters Listen now as Kai and Alake hold court to chop shop about the thrilling story and possible future plans for her brave and plucky characters.

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Derron Sandy Reads from The Chaos

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2025/11/12

Enjoy 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 contemporary Trinidad. Using a variety of forms and approaches, the poems describe scene after painful scene – from the murder of an abusive boss and a killing at a gang member’s wake to a child’s suicide and the finding of a missing person’s body in a barrel – evoking the ‘chaos’ in each case with eloquence, clarity and ...

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Nightmare Island - Shakira Bourne (Barbados)

BCLF Cocoa Pod ·

2025/10/25

Twelve 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 only suffocating silence in their wake. Her parents already favor her "perfect" younger brother, Peace, and she doesn't want to be seen as the "problem" child. Instead, Serenity's found a productive way to channel her fears: creating a horror movie as scary as her nightmares. When Peace suddenly becomes afraid of th...

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The Fix - Alexia Tolas (Bahamas)

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2025/10/24

Winner 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 obeah practitioner. She has fallen in love with her neighbor, but rather than compete with his current lover directly, she looks to magic to steal him for herself. The obeah woman teachesthe young woman how to infuse her food with stronger and stronger spells until she fixes her man for good. Alexia Tolas is a Bah...

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A Million Aunties - Alecia Mc Kenzie (Jamaica)

BCLF Cocoa Pod ·

2025/10/24

Alecia 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. Sweetheart has been translated into French (Trésor) and was awarded the Prix Carbet des lycéens in 2017. Her most recent novel is A Million Aunties - longlisted for the 2022 Dublin Literary Award. Her work has also appeared in a range of literary magazines and in anthologies such as Stories from Blue Latitudes, The Ox...

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Episode 49 | Traveling Freely Essays - Roberto...

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2025/10/02

In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, American socioeconomic inequality, police violence, our inability to partake in our culture as innocents, and our complicity as Americans in all that’s wrong with the United States from the author’s specific vantage point as a Black Dominican American man. The voice in these essays is both clear and nuanced, and as readers move through the collection, the various themes cohere into a multil...

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Episode 48 | The Price of Two Pence - Jason...

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2025/09/25

"What you’re about to hear is the opening of my novel-in-progress, The Price of Two Pence. It begins in Battersea, January 1975, on the Number 77 bus, where Ronald Jones — a Jamaican bus conductor — asks two young men for a two-pence fare for their dog. What happens next alters his life, and the life of his sister Nancy, forever. The novel traces the aftermath of that moment across London and rural Jamaica, exploring the grief and rage of a family, the silences of a city that tried to forget...

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