Portia Subran

Portia Subran is a writer and ink artist, from Chaguanas, Trinidad & Tobago. Her stories are inspired by her parents’ tales of colonial, and early post-colonial Trinidad, lived experience, and Ole Talk gathered over the years. Her artwork has been featured in Arc Magazine, and has been shown at the Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago end of year exhbitions. In 2013, she was announced the winner of the Potbake Productions 2011-2013 Caribbean Short Story Competition with her work, “Unclipped Wings.” This work was later published in the Caribbean Short story collectin Jewels of the Caribbean. She is the winner of the 2019 Cecile de Jongh Literary Prize from the Caribbean Writer, and the 2016 Small Axe Literary Short Story Competition. She was a finalist for the 2022 BCLF Short Fiction Story Contest. In 2024, Portia won the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Caribbean).