Biography
Isaiah Adepoju won the 2022 HIASFEST Star Prize.A novelist and a poet, he is a fellow of Ebedi International Writing Residency, Imodoye Writing Residency, the UNDERTOW Poetry Fellowship, and Olongo Africa Poetry Workshop. A three-time shortlistee of the Ken Saro Wiwa Prize for Review, winner of the Lagos-London Poetry Prize, Pengician Chapbook Prize, and shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Prize. He has works in A Long House, Ake Journal, Afrocritik, The Shallow Tales Review, Nigerian News Direct, Brittlepaper, and elsewhere. He has served as a mentor at Sprinng Writing Fellowship, a prose reader at Adroit Journal, an editor at The Nigeria Review, and currently the editor-in-chief of ANA-OAU. His debut novel was published by Abibiman Publishers, UK, in 2023.
2022
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School: N/A
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Prize: HIASFEST Star Prize Winners for Male Teen Writers in Nigeria
HIASFEST categories and awards
- HIASFEST Star Prize