Roland Watson-Grant: Caribbean Winner, 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Jamaican author Roland Watson-Grant is the Caribbean Winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, with “The Disappearance of Mumma Dell”
his winning story of a matriarch’s funeral gone awry, a missing body, a forbidden pear tree and a community under threat is told through the eyes of a teenager. The 2021 overall winner will be announced during an award ceremony at 1:00pm BST on June 30, 2021.
The Commonwealth Foundation today announces the regional winners of the world’s most global literary prize. Jamaican author Roland Watson-Grant has won the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story competition (Caribbean) for his story ‘The Disappearance of Mumma Dell’.
O’Neill Regional Wave of the Winter Winners Announced!
Bomb-baggers throughout the U.S. and Caribbean score $1,000 and bragging rights
Bomb-baggers throughout the U.S. and Caribbean score $1,000 and bragging rights
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Never in the history of the O’Neill Regional Wave of the Winter has there been so much diversity in our field of entrants and, ultimately, our short list of winners. Some are defending champions. Some have never won it before. Some are young ladies. Some are 50-year-old men.
But after a four-month holding period (December 1, 2020-March 31, 2021) filled to the brim with impressive entries from all over the continental U.S. and Caribbean, we’ve determined the winners for the third annual event. After the field was whittled down to four semifinalists for each of the five regions, those surfers were then judged via online user voting on Surfline’s Instagram Story.