Moko Magazine
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Moko is a Virgin Islands based non-profit magazine that focuses on promoting fiction, poetry, visual arts and criticism reflecting a Caribbean heritage or experience.
Entries are now open for The BVI Lit Fest Writing Competition 2026. The contest is open to writers in the BVI as well as internationally, and winners in some categories will receive cash prizes and be published in Moko. Deadline: 15 October 2026. Further details: bvilitfest.com/writing-comp...
you called me today / i wanted to stuff the pauses between words / like cotton for the pillow talk / we never got to dream on… - from April Glasgow’s evocative poem ’Incognito’ in Moko Issue 26: Visual Poetries mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/i... #poetry #poem #aprilglasgow
Muddy, endless, every building’s beaten wood / laid slatternly, every mossy bridge post broken, / blistered walkways through fierce grass sentries... - from ‘Canal Water’, one of two incredible poems by Desirée Seebaran in Moko Issue 26: Visual Poetries mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/t...
'On her fingers are Saturn’s moons…’ — from ‘Ra gets dressed for the club’, one of two astonishing new poems by Yesha Townsend in Moko Issue 26: Visual Poetries mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/t... #poetry #poem #YeshaTownsend
‘they say I was trouble… ‘ — read amílcar peter sanatan’s powerful new poem ‘Lagahoo as a Boy’ in Moko Issue 26: Visual Poetries mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/l... #poetry #poem
‘Water, sugared tomb, / Inverted pyramid…’ –from ‘Sacred, still’ by AMARA Click to read this stunning new poem from MOKO Issue 26: Visual Poetries Or see it here: mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/s... #poem #poetry #AMARA
Congratulations to MOKO Issue 25 cover artist Kvita Mongroo on the opening of her latest show The Visionary’s Last Gift on Saturday at Softbox Gallery!🎉 📖Read an interview with Kvita about her art here: mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/i... 🖼️Detail from ‘Dream House I’, 12” x 10”, mixed media collage
…But no dictionary / consideration for their mothers, except the craft / and harmony of immigrants. — from ‘X-Mothers’ by Justin Haynes in Moko 26 mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/m... Pictured: Justin in Trinidad for the recent Bocas Lit Fest, where he was awarded the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction
‘Proud nobody from nowhere, / your heart bleeds its love of islands...’ --from ‘Where You From’, a powerful new poem by Mac Donald Dixon featured in Moko 26 Read it here: mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/w...
‘Even if nothing happens, / even if the captain of / the Gravely goes home / / with two rum / in he head…’ – from the opening of Mervyn Taylor’s astonishing poem ‘Even If No War’ in Moko 26. Read it here mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/e...
'The broken louvres draw me in / like incantation, until I find myself / sitting in a dark room, wings folded…’ -- from ‘The Aftermath of Flight’, one of three spectacular new poems by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné featured in Moko 26 Read them here: mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/t...
'Visual poetry has been, and remains, a tool to explore post-coloniality...' - from Moko 26’s Editorial: Signs & Tokens mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/e... 📸 Charlie Godet Thomas, 'Unfolding Landscape (Juvenile Begging)', 2025. Image courtesy the artist and Colector Gallery, Mexico/US.
Announcing Moko 26: VISUAL POETRIES with Charlie Godet Thomas, Rex Dixon, Tracy Assing, Stewart Brown, Kevin Morris, Adeline Gregoire & much more! mokomagazine.org Cover: Charlie Godet Thomas, ‘Unfolding Landscape (Pesticides),’ 2025. Image courtesy the artist/ Colector Gallery, Mexico/US.
Behold: a new episode of Sky Words, the podcast of Moko Magazine. In this coruscating third episode, poet Althea Romeo-Mark — born in Antigua and Barbuda and now based in Switzerland — shares one of her two poems featured in Issue 25: Made in the Caribbean. 🎧 Listen now: mokomagazine.org/podcast/
I am a big believer in things being multi-use. To that end, I knew that when I launched my own space, it should be a place where I can work... — Read our interview with Trinidadian artist Nicholas Huggins on his new gallery space in Issue 25 mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/n... Photo: Brendan Delzin
Colours, patterns and textures jostle in her work, which makes good use of the sense of play and fragility possible within the paper collage…. Read an interview with Issue 25’s artist Kvita Mongroo mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/i... Image: Stilt travellers II, mixed media on canvas by Kvita Mongroo
Moko accepts submissions all year round. Send us poems, short stories, flash fictions, interviews, essays, book reviews, art, and photography tied to the Caribbean diaspora. See our Submittable page for general genre guidelines: mokomagazine.submittable.com/submit #books #magazinesubmissions
It has been just over a month since the 2025 BVI Lit Fest. As this astonishing year draws to a close, here's a look back at some highlights from this year's edition of the festival, including snaps of Moko co-founder Richard Georges and more! 🎉 All images courtesy the BVI Lit Fest.
Structured in two sections, “Then” and “Now”, the book delves into the history of South Asian indentureship in the Caribbean, beginning with one woman, Jiyanti... - From Issue 25’s reading roundup, which also includes books by Emmelie Prophète and Berkely Wendell Semple.
Congratulations to artist and Moko contributor Nicholas Huggins on last night's opening of his third solo exhibition, TROPICAL DREAMS, at the Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago! #art #painting #caribbeanartists
“I had nothing but the present and stories with no beginnings,” says Cécé, the eponymous protagonist of Emmelie Prophète’s economical yet potent novel. READ the rest of Issue 25's reading roundup here mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/r... @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Announcing Moko 25: MADE IN THE CARIBBEAN With Marckenson Jean-Baptiste, Ariel Francisco, Althea Romeo-Mark, Deneka Thomas, Niala Maharaj, Caroline Mackenzie, Breanne Mc Ivor, Diana McCaulay, Kvita Mongroo, Nicholas Huggins, June Aming, Ruth Osman, Keeron Isaac, and more! mokomagazine.org
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