The Writing Seminars is happy to announce that Olakunle Ologunro, MFA ’24, has been awarded an Elizabeth George Foundation grant for 2025.  The grant will support the completion of a collection of short stories.

The Elizabeth George Foundation makes artistic grants to unpublished fiction writers, to poets, to emerging playwrights and to organizations benefiting disadvantaged youth.

Olakunle Ologunro is a writer from Lagos, Nigeria. His writing has been published in Story Magazine, Lolwe, the Queer Africa anthology, the Feel Good anthology, and elsewhere. He was awarded a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, longlisted for the 2024 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Adina Talve-Goodman Fellowship from One Story Magazine. His work has also received support from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and elsewhere.