Celeste Mohammed

#bocas2026

Biography

Celeste Mohammed is a Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer. Her debut novel-in-stories Pleasantview (Jacaranda, 2021) won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the UK Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, and her debut non-fiction book A Different Energy: Women in Caribbean Oil was published in 2023. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and she received a 2018 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Years Attended

2018, 2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2021 Bios and Bookmarks Participant, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Bocas UK Tour, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2023 Featured Speaker, 2024 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Featured Speaker, 2026 Adult's Festival Participant, 2026 Siparia Festival Participant

Celeste Mohammed

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Celeste Mohammed
2026
A Literary Tour of South Trinidad
Siparia Event
Author Readings, Discussion, Literary Tour Event
Event Date: September 26, 2026 @ 10:30 am
Iere High School
2026
The Bocas-Jacaranda Short Story Intensive
Bocas Academy, Workshop Event
Workshop Event
Event Date:
Online
2026
Writers First: Listening In
Festival Programme Event
Seminar, Writers First Event
Event Date: May 3, 2026 @ 3:00 pm
AV Room
2025
Book Launch: Celeste Mohammed and Olive Senior
Festival Programme Event
Fiction Event
Event Date: May 4, 2025 @ 4:30 pm
Old Fire Station
2024
Amazing Scenes
Festival Programme Event
Book Launch Event
Event Date:
Old Fire Station
2024
Life Writing
Festival Programme Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2023
The Short of It
Festival Programme Event
Fiction Event
Event Date: April 29, 2023 @ 3:30 pm
AV Room
2023
Take Two: Kevin Jared Hosein and Celeste Mohammed
Festival Programme Event
Fiction Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 4:30 pm
Old Fire Station
2022
Bocas UK Tour 2022 at the Belfast International Arts Festival
Bocas UK Tour Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
No Alibis Bookstore
2022
An evening of new Caribbean writing
Bocas UK Tour Event
Author Readings Event
Event Date:
National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall
2022
A conversation with Celeste Mohammed and Amanda Smyth
Bocas UK Tour Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
Leicester Central Library
2022
Winners' Row
Festival Programme Event
Event Date:
2019
Inspired by the Archives
Big Ideas, Festival Programme Event
Readings Event
Event Date:
AV Room
2018
Take Two: Ingrid Persaud and Celeste Mohammed
Festival Programme, Words Alive Event
Discussion Event
Event Date:
AV Room