Nigerian writer Frances Ogamba has been selected as one of the 2025 Tin House Summer Workshop Novel Scholars, joining a small group of authors chosen for their outstanding literary prowess.
The Tin House Summer Workshop, held annually in the United States, is one of the most competitive literary programs in the world. Its “Novel Scholars” category offers intensive mentorship, craft lectures, and peer workshops to help writers develop book-length projects. Alumni of the program have gone on to win major literary awards and secure international publishing deals.
A short story writer, Frances Ogamba has earned multiple accolades. In 2019, her nonfiction piece The Valley of Memories which explores the bodily connection a woman feels with her deceased uncle won the Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction. That same year, her short story “Ghana Boy”, centered on the relationship between a young boy and his gang leader elder brother, was shortlisted for the Writivism Short Story Prize. In 2020, her story “My Husband’s Wife” won the English-language category of the inaugural Kalahari Short Story Prize.
The 2025 Tin House Summer Workshop will bring together its scholars later this year for a week of intensive writing and collaboration.
Congratulations, Frances Ogamba!
Bakare Oluwatobiloba
I write to educate, motivate and define history with literature. Just being me!
