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5:30 pm - 7:30 pm The CWW presents Four members of our workshop reading from unpublished work. Come and big them up. Blacka Ellis (JAM) Ishion Hutchinson (JAM) Veronica Saulter (IRL) Rudolph Wallace (JAM) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Break / Open mic 9 pm - 10 pm Phyllis Yvonne Stickney (USA) A prime time hour with the actress and comedienne. Comedy that makes you think. 10:30 - 12:30 Tough Guys Noir writing with great urban settings: Lagos, Havana, Rio de Janeiro and Brooklyn. Chris Abani (NGA) Arnaldo Correa (CUB) Nelson Eubanks (USA) Glenville Lovell (BRB)

10 am - 12 noon Macmillan presents A sampler from the many imprints of one of biggest publishers in the world. Rita Marley (JAM) Tessa McWatt (GUY) China Miéville (UK) Anthony Winkler (JAM) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Maryse Condé (GLP) Venerable writer reading whatever she wants. Why? She’s got it like that. 1:30 pm - 3 pm Break / Open mic 3 pm - 5 pm Cave Canem presents Teachers and fellows from the famous African American poetry institution. Devorah Major (USA) Harryette Mullen (USA) Tim Seibles (USA) Dan Wideman (USA) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Brother Man Four Jamaican icons celebrate the 50th anniversary edition of a great Jamaican book. Leonie Forbes (JAM) Barbara Blake Hannah (JAM) John Maxwell (JAM) Big Youth (JAM) 7:30 pm - 9 pm Break / Open mic 9 pm - 11 pm Tosh: Still Firm @ 60 Four reggae singers celebrate the lyrics and 60th earthday of founding Wailer Peter Tosh. Wayne Armond (JAM) Ibo Cooper (JAM) Steve Golding (JAM) Nadine Sutherland

10 am - 12 noon Akashic Books presents A sampler from a Brooklyn independent bent on reverse-gentrification of literature. Percival Everett (USA) Sean Keith Henry (TRI) Kaylie Jones (USA) Nina Revoyr (JAP) 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Austin Clarke (CAN) Winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize reads from an amazing body of work. 1:30 pm - 3 pm Break / Open mic 3 pm - 5 pm Back A Yard Four Jamaican poets based abroad return to the soil that holds their navel strings. Opal Palmer Adisa (JAM) Jean Binta Breeze (JAM) Mark McMorris (JAM) Claudia Rankine (JAM) 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm The Kindness of Strangers True tales of random global acts of kindness from the editors of Lonely Planet. Tim Cahill (USA) Don George (USA) Amanda Jones (NZL) Laurie McAndish King (USA)