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  • Collage of audience members, guest speaker, performance artist at the book launch for Ixion & The Soufrière Suite by legendary Vincentian poet/musician Shake Keane (HNP, 2025), presented by CLF and HNP. University of St. Martin (2.28.25). (CB Photography. © HNP.)
    March 13, 2025

    Ixion book launch: a “concert-class” recital of Keane’s “Mirrors,” a “legacy left for us by people who had guts”

  • This engaging video series will bring new and exciting delivery of poetry via the art form of theatre, enhance the examination preparation of CSEC English B students, continue to fuel the development of culture while bridging the gap between literature and theatre.
    March 10, 2025

    NCF’s Online Theatre Repository Launch

  • It should be noted that Keane, in a rare move for the major writers of his generation, began publishing in the region before he gained fame in international jazz circles while living in England during the 1950s and 1960s. He is still probably better known as an innovative jazz trumpeter, arranger, and as a member of the ground-breaking Joe Harriott Quintet than for his poetry, said Sekou.
    January 3, 2025

    Ixion & The Soufrière Suite by Shake Keane, 70+ anniversary book from Vincentian literary giant published by HNP

  • The NCF, through its Literary Arts Desk, has published Rifling about Survival among the Bearded Fig Trees of Ichirouganaim; a collection of award-winning poems written by Dr. Elizabeth Best which is available for download on Kindle.
    May 3, 2024

    NIFCA Literary Arts creates history with new publication

  • February 27, 2024

    Virgin Islanders Tishauni Hall and Tiffany Brewley Awarded in KVI Network Creations, LLC Rhapsody & Rhyme Contest

  • Kerry A Belgrave is an award-winning linguist, researcher and teacher who has been writing poetry seriously for the past twenty-four years. 
    February 17, 2024

    NCF’s Writers’ Clinic – Poetic Imagery

  • December 15, 2023

    “Poem for Guyana and Venezuela, mi companeros” by Margaret Gill

  • S. Neverson Dance Company - And so we Dance.
    November 24, 2023

    NIFCA Gala to celebrate 50 years of excellence

  • Artwork for Hallelujah by When Jennings
    November 21, 2023

    Whey Jennings To Release Inspiring Remake Of Gospel Rocker “Hallelujah” For The Holiday Season

  • Poet Laureate Esther Phillips, Winston Farrell, Deanne Kennedy, Kenneth Lewis, Linda M. Deane, Annette Nias, Dr Yvonne Weekes, DJ Simmons, Shakirah Bourne, Kerry Belgrave, Neil Waithe, and Akeem Chandler-Prescod aka Stoned with Cupid are among those being featured.
    November 20, 2023

    Literary Art takes NIFCA spotlight: A Night of Prose and book launch at Ilaro Court

  • NIFCA Performing Arts Final Dance is Thursday.
    November 10, 2023

    All systems go for NIFCA Finals

  • Speaking on the imminent event which she described as “Family Friendly”, NCF’s Literary Arts Officer Karra Price said the book fair was intended to cater to everyone.
    November 2, 2023

    NIFCA Book Fair for entire family