Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Inc

The BCLF is a literary nonprofit 501(c)(3) that blazes a trail for Caribbean stories and its writers across the Diaspora. We highlight Caribbean literature and the region’s history of storytelling to the United States first, then extend that celebration to wider global audiences. It is a showcase of culture as expressed through the pen of the storyteller and the voice of the poet. 

Founded in 2019, the organisation is optimally based in the gateway to the Caribbean Diaspora, Brooklyn --New York, more specifically-- within the epicenter of the Caribbean community in the locale dubbed, ‘Little Caribbean’. Annually, hundreds of people pour into Brooklyn for the BCLF to attend our public events, while our year-long approach to programming ensures that we meet the needs of writers of Caribbean heritage in tangible and impactful ways. 

Caribbean people and their descendants have long contributed to the development of New York and the BCLF honours the legacies of their stories and knowledge that have survived time, loss, erasure, migration and the ones that find expression in the fresh soil of the Caribbean Diaspora where its people have settled. By dint of its origin story, the Caribbean is an inclusive, multi-ethnic, plural community, and a positive emblem for diversity, easily decoded and deeply relevant to a highly diverse society like New York. 

The BCLF works to promote Caribbean-American talent, polish their craft, create opportunities and negotiate, through network and partnerships, high visibility opportunities in ways that are both authentic to the Caribbean cosmology and of the highest possible industry standards.