Ingrid Persaud
Ingrid Persaud’s novel Love After Love, set in Trinidad where she was born, won the 2020 Costa First Novel Award. Her new book is The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh, published in 2024. She also won the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize in 2017. Her writing has […]
Lance Dowrich
Lance Dowrich won the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for the Caribbean with “Ethelbert and the Free Cheese”. His two books to date have been published by Notion Press of Chennai, India. These are: A Plethora of Dead Ends (July 2021) and Long Rope for Magga Goat (March 2026). His story from 2016 was part […]
Barbara Jenkins
The memoir, The Stranger Who Was Myself (Peepal Tree Press/2022), is the Trinidadian author’s latest book. Prizes for her short stories include The Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean Region), The Wasafiri New Writing Prize, The Canute Brodhurst Prize, The Small Axe Short Story Competition and The Hollick-Arvon Fiction Prize. Sic Transit Wagon, her debut collection […]
Kevin Jared Hosein
Kevin Jared Hosein is the author, most recently, of Hungry Ghosts, fiction winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. It had also been longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He is a two-time winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, regionally in 2015 and overall in 2018. […]
Sharon Millar
Sharon Millar was born and lives in Trinidad. She is the winner of the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the 2012 Small Axe Short Fiction Award. Her first collection The Whale House and other stories (Peepal Tree Press 2015) was long-listed for the 2016 OCM Bocas Prize. Her work has been anthologized in Pepperpot: Best New […]
Austin Clarke
Austin Clarke, Barbados born, Canada based, is a celebrated novelist, short-story writer and journalist. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Rogers Communication Writers Trust Prize, the W.O. Mitchell Prize Giller Prize for fiction, the Trillium Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Best Book Award for Canada and the Caribbean region and the Commonwealth Writers […]