Golakai Wins 2019 Morland Writing Scholarship

Hawa Jande Golakai of Liberia is one of four Morland Writing Scholarship recipients, chosen for “Speculative fiction of soaring imagination featuring a tightly controlled underwater city of glass in a future mecca for black people in West Africa.” Each winner will receive ₤18,000, paid monthly over the course of twelve months, “to allow them to take a year off to write a book.”

The Morland Writing Scholarships are for “anyone writing in the English language who was born in Africa, or both of whose parents were born in Africa.” For more information, including the full rules and requirements, see the official announcement.

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