Cecil Browne (born 1957) is a British and Vincentian writer who won the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Canada, UK and Europe.
The first The Moon is Following Me, published in 2010, was a collection of short stories based around experiences of family life in a Caribbean village in the 1970s.
[5][6] The second, Feather Your Tingaling, published in 2012, was a collection of short stories inspired by characters from Caribbean folklore.
His story Coming Off the Long Run was published in 2018 in So Many Islands, an anthology of writing from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans gathered from works supported by the Commonwealth Writers.
[10][11] Competition judge Stephanos Stephanides commented that this was a striking and original story set in mid-19th century post-Emancipation St Vincent .. which provides a visceral understanding of a culture at a crucial point of social and historical transition.