Calabash Festival 2008: schedule is out!

Festival Dates: May 23-25, 2008
St. Elizabeth, Jamaica

According the their website: "The mission of the Calabash International Literary Festival Trust is to transform the literary arts in the Caribbean by being the region's best-managed producer of workshops, seminars and performances. We will achieve these goals by focusing on our audiences, managing our budget, creating a community of supporters in the media, government, business, the performing arts, philanthropic organizations and publishing, and by becoming the festival of choice for the world's most gifted authors."

It's quite a line-up including Derek Walcott, Chris Abani, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, Erna Brodber, Lorna Goodison (whose recent and critically well-received book, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island, I'm looking foward to reading this summer), Achy Obejas, Cornelius Eady, Abraham Rodriguez, and other notable international writers, and a line-up of acclaimed Jamaican musicians as well on the "Bob Andy’s Songbook" panel.