Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship 2025 (50,000 AED grant) – YOA

Deadline: April 17, 2025

Applications are open for the Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship 2025. The Africa Institute, Global Studies University invites functions for the Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship, a distinguished program that celebrates and helps literary voices engaged within the inventive expression of Africa and its diaspora in all types and genres.

Established in honor of the late Nigerian scholar Tejumola Olaniyan, a famend literary critic whose work profoundly formed African and African diaspora research, this fellowship displays his legacy of mental rigor, creativity, and dedication to fostering new narratives. It aligns with The Africa Institute’s mission as a globally oriented heart devoted to analysis, postgraduate research, and important discourse on Africa and its worldwide connections.

Benefits

• The fellowship gives a grant of fifty,000 AED in whole throughout the fellowship, which is inclusive of lodging, a return airfare ticket, visa and the month-to-month stipend of 10,000 AED per 30 days per fellow.

Eligibility

• The fellowship is open to each rising and properly-established inventive writers.
• A sturdy report of inventive literary excellence, together with awards, fellowships, or different types of recognition.
• Applicants have to be actively engaged on a serious literary challenge (a novel, memoir, assortment of essays or poetry, movie script, or a full-size play).
• Applicants will need to have at the very least one printed work (guide, journal, or vital on-line platform) or a considerable portfolio demonstrating their dedication to writing.
• Applicants engaged on themes associated to Africa and the African diaspora are strongly inspired to apply.
• Priority will likely be given to candidates who make use of progressive approaches to storytelling, type, or language are given precedence.
• Priority will likely be given to candidates whose work reveals potential to contribute to essential literary tradition, scholarship, or public discourse are given desire.

Application

The application requires the next:

• CV/résumé of the applicant
• A two-web page abstract (single area, font 12) of the challenge to be undertaken throughout the residency interval, its significance, and a proposed date of completion.
• One pattern of printed or unpublished writings and/or inventive work to be evaluated.

To submit functions, compile all application supplies; CV/résumé, two-web page narrative and writing pattern (in case of a guide, kindly connect individually) into one single PDF within the talked about order.

Name the file with the residency title abbreviation and the applicant’s title on this format: OCWRP_LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME.pdf

Use the identical title within the e mail topic heading and ship the PDF as an e mail attachment to [email protected].

For extra data, go to Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship.