2025/2026
Walton Family and Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellowship in Fiction
James T. Whitehead Award for Fiction
Lily Peter Fellowship in Fiction
2024/2025
James E. & Ellen Wadley Roper Fellowship in Creative Writing
2023/2024
Carolyn F. Walton First-Year Fellowship
Nominee, the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas Prize for Literature
2021
Arojah Students Playwriting Prize
Praises
“a discourse on the politics of marriage between science and voodoo.” -The NLNG Judges 2023
Walton Family and Carolyn F. Walton Cole Fellowship in Fiction
“… At times lustful, at times harrowing, the story has a deep sense of searching, without apology yet with ferocity, for what might become a meaningful life. Something too close to the heart is happening
on the page.” –Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry (Judge)
James T. Whitehead Award for Fiction
“…The narrative turns were surprising and exciting, and I loved the limits of the character’s self-awareness. I couldn’t stop thinking about this story!” –Katya Apekina (Judge)
“…I was so struck by the balance of tragedy and farce, the unrelenting excess of the voicemail and the dizzying subversion right after, Chuka’s funny and sad and relatable attempts to process the unprocess-able things that have happened to him.”
Emily Zhao, JoyLand Magazine (on VOICEMAIL)
Lily Peter Fellowship in Fiction
“…This is a fully-realized world, which makes the characters and events all the more heart-rending.” –Jon Hickey (Judge)