Wondering who is behind the Writers' Studio Workshops? Meet Samuel Kolawole.
Samuel Kolawole has contributed fiction and non-fiction to several literary journals including Eastownfiction, Translitmag, Superstition Review, the Guardian, UK, the Kalahari Review, Sentinel literary Quarterly, and Short Story Day Africa. Kolawole is a regular contributor to Jungle Jim, a groundbreaking African pulp fiction magazine based in South Africa. His work has been published in Behind the Shadows, an anthology of African and Asian writers, and is also forthcoming in ISFN anthology, a Canada based imprint where his writing life will be showcased as well. Samuel also contributes to the South Africa based e-journal efrika.
In 2011, Kolawole featured as author of the month for his story “Memories and Penitence” at Tea with George, a project from Desperanto and Kanev Books in New York, which showcases the talents of writers of poetry and short stories. He is the author of the collection of short stories, The Book of M, published by Serendipity Books, Nigeria, also in 2011.
Kolawole is an alumnus of the Farafina Trust International Creative Writers Program with Tin House editor Rob Spillman, novelist and New School professor Jeffery Allen, Kenyan writer Binyanvanga Wainana, and novelist Chimamanda Adichie as lead facilitators. Samuel Kolawole is the winner of a 2010 Reading Bridges fellowship, and a recipient of an Ebedi Writer’s Residency.
Kolawole runs Writers’ Studio, a school for creative writing, the first of its kind in Nigeria. He lives in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria and he has just completed his first novel.
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