Otancia Noel is a Caribbean girl from Trinidad and Tobago. She grew up between the south and north of Trinidad. She has a degree in Mass Communication and an MFA in Creative Writing Prose Fiction.

She teaches and loves reading, writing, cooking, and gardening and is currently working on her first novel and book of short stories as well as a chap book of non-fiction. Stories, articles, and scholarly articles featured in Solar Punk US magazine. The Caribbean Writer (TCW) Volume 36 US Virgin Island University. Wired868 online newspaper, Lowle Magazine Issue 8, Be Bar Bar Magazine, blogs, and Academia.edu.

Writing Achievements

Longlisted for writing at Johnson and Amoy Caribbean Prize both in fiction and non-fiction 2019 and 2020.

Winner of Hachette and Hodder Education UK Island Voices Caribbean Contemporary Prize 2022.

Story published by Hodder Education in Island Voices a collection of Caribbean Short Stories.

Eligible for Hugo and Nebula Award for Best Short Story 2022

Winner of the Vincent Cooper Literary Prize USA 2021

Second Place Hammond House Publishers UK 2023 Origins Prize.

Shortlisted for the Kinsman Quarterly Iridescence Awards.

Shortlisted for Alpine Short Story Prize UK 2024

 Longlisted for Bridport International Short Story Prize UK 2024

Longlisted for Ink of Ages World History Encyclopedia and Oxford Press University Short Story Prize 2024/2025.

  Hammond House Publication UK Editor’s International Choices 2024

Links:

https://lolwe.org/teenaged-coup-1990-ref... [2]

http://wired868.com/2024/04/02/rememberi... [3]

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/island-v... [4]

https://www.uvi.edu/news/2023/23_006_car... [5]

https://solarpunkmagazine.com/chronicles... [6]

https://solarpunkmagazine.com/2022-award... [7]

https://www.hammondhouse.org.uk/2024-lit... [8]

https://www.thecaribbeanwriter.org/produ... [9]

https://www.thecaribbeanwriter.org/2024/... [10]

https://bebarbar.com/2023/11/22/woe-manh... [11]