Lance Dowrich

#bocas2026

Biography

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.

Awards

2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize Caribbean Winner, Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Years Attended

2016 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2016 South Festival Participant, 2019 Carifesta Participant, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2026 Adult's Festival Participant

Lance Dowrich

Author
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Lance Dowrich
2026
Take Two: Lance Dowrich and Scarlet Ibis James
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Take Two Event
Event Date: May 1, 2026 @ 3:00 pm
Old Fire Station
2023
Sons of the Soil: Selvon Meets Stalin
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Performance Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 7:00 pm
Big Black Box