Poet, Fiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
Fiction
Poetry
Lit Arts - Bridget Jones Bursary Award, Society for Caribbean Studies (2024); Intersect Antigua and Barbuda's inaugural artist-in-residence (2024); Commonwealth short story prize short listing for "Jumbie Pond" (2025) + long listing for "Guinep Blossoms" (2024) + short story “Amelia at Devil’s Bridge” was selected from the best Caribbean submissions to the 2013 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for inclusion in Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean (2014); Anthony N. Sabga Award for Caribbean Excellence (Arts and Letters Laureate) (2023); Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean long listing for stories "Vincent" (2020), "Freedom Cup - The Games are Coming" (2021), "The Rumour" (2023); 7th placed from hundreds of entries in the Perito Short Story Prize and published in The Perito Prize Anthology (2021); Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers Awards Honoree (2021); Musical Youth named one of Kirkus Reviews Best of 2020 (2020); Women of Wadadli Award prize for contribution to Literature (2020); With Grace selected for the USVI Governor’s Summer Read Challenge (2017); The Caribbean Writer Flash Fiction prize for "When We danced" (2015); novel Oh Gad! selected for NPR's Weekend Reads (2014); Burt Award for Caribbean teen/young adult Fiction - 1st runner-up/2nd Placed overall for "Musical Youth" (2014); The Missing Slate journal listing "Something Wicked" as its Story of the Week (2014); Honourable Mention for "With Grace", later published as a children's book - Desi Writers Lounge Short Story Competition (2014); David Hough Literary Prize from the Caribbean Writer, USVI (2011); Small Axe Literary Fiction Prize short listing for short stories “Genevieve” (2012) + “Amelia at Devil’s Bridge” (2013); Fellowship to participate in the Texas A & M Callaloo Writers Workshop at Brown University (2012); Michael and Marilee Fairbanks fellowship to participate in the Breadloaf Writers Conference at Middlebury College (2008); UNESCO Honor Award for outstanding contribution in literary arts - Antigua and Barbuda (2006); fellowship to participate in the Caribbean Fiction Writers Summer Institute at the University of Miami (1995). Two books - Musical Youth and The Boy from Willow Bend - have been taught or been on schools reading lists in Antigua and Barbuda and the Caribbean.
Journalism - Caribbean Media Awards People's Choice Awards for CREATIVE SPAFE Caribbean art and culture column (2023); OECS RemLit Journalist Challenge - 3rd place for CREATIVE SPACE art and culture column (2021); Pan American Health Organization media awards for excellence in health journalism - certificates of merit for feature writing - Antigua-Barbuda (2003, 2005); Environmental Journalist of the Year - Ministry of Tourism and Environment - Antigua and Barbuda (2002)
Other - Plaque for commitment to literacy in Antigua and Barbuda from the Antigua Film Academy (2022); Catapult Caribbean Creative Arts grant recipient (2020, 2022); Leonard Tim Hector Memorial Award (2014)
See also https://jhohadli.com/about/accolades