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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 (BCLF)Follow the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival on IG and FB @bklyncbeanlitfestVisit www.bklyncbeanlitfest.com
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Booking probability
30%
Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchBCLF 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.
BCLF Cocoa Pod is hosted by Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival. The show has published 34 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 58 | Spoken Word - amilcar sanatan (Trinidad & Tobago)" (11 February 2026, 17 minutes), "Episode 57 | The Dead Cat Tail Assassins - P. Djeli Clark (Trinidad & Tobago)" (11 February 2026, 12 minutes), and "EPISODE 56 | Red - Niama Safia Sandy (SVG)" (24 December 2025, 7 minutes).
BCLF Cocoa Pod publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 16 minutes across 34 episodes.
Booking probability for BCLF Cocoa Pod is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. BCLF Cocoa Pod requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. BCLF Cocoa Pod's contact route on record: public web form.
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Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival hosts BCLF Cocoa Pod, an arts podcast with 34 episodes published.
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<p>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...
Episode #57
<p>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...
BCLF Cocoa Pod
<p>Niama Safia Sandy is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, curator, organizer, and change agent.</p><p>Her essay “Red” weaves a meandering tale that touches on Sandy’s coming of age through rememberings of...
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<p>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...
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<p>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...
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<p>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...
BCLF Cocoa Pod
<p>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...
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<p>‘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. </p><p>Portia Subran is a writer and artist...
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<p>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...
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<p>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...
BCLF Cocoa Pod
<p>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...
BCLF Cocoa Pod
<p>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...
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<p>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...
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<p>Winner 2022 BCLF Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean <br/><br/>“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...
Episode #49
<p>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...
Episode #48
<p>"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...
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