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 of The ImagiNation Project, published in South Africa, (2019). He has participated in the Dibrugarh University International Literary Festival, India, in March 2024; Bocas Lit Fest, Trinidad and Tobago, in 2016, 2017, and 2023; and the Calabash Literary Festival, Jamaica, in 2016.