Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Tejumola Olaniyan Creative Writers-in-Residence Fellowship 2026. The Africa Institute, Global Studies University invites purposes 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 middle devoted to analysis, postgraduate research, and important discourse on Africa and its worldwide connections.

Since its inception in Fall 2022, the fellowship has welcomed esteemed writers, fostering inventive alternate and scholarship in Sharjah, UAE, a necessary nexus of African-Arab cultural interplay. Through this residency, The Africa Institute continues to advance its dedication to shaping new paradigms in African and African diaspora research whereas offering a dynamic house for mental and inventive exploration.

Benefits

• A grant of fifty,000 AED in complete in the course of 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 established inventive writers
• Applicants should be actively engaged on a serious literary mission (novel, memoir, essays, poetry, movie script, or full-size play)
• Applicants should have a minimum of one printed work (ebook, journal, or important on-line platform)

Preferred Requirements

• Strong report of inventive literary excellence (awards, fellowships, recognition)
• Substantial inventive portfolio
• Work associated to Africa and the African diaspora
• Innovative approaches to storytelling, kind, or language
• Work that contributes to crucial literary tradition, scholarship, or public discourse

Application

Application ought to embrace:

• CV/résumé of the applicant
• A one-web page cowl letter explaining motivation for making use of to this residency (single-house, font 12)
• A two-web page mission assertion (single-house, font 12) which can embrace:
  • Project description
  • Significance of the mission
  • Proposed timeline for finishing the mission
  • Introduction of the writing pattern (or pattern inventive work) and its relation to the proposed mission
• One printed writing pattern or a pattern of inventive work

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