Ghanaian interdisciplinary creative Boakye D. Alpha has been selected as one of ten fellows for the 2025–2026 Escalator New Writing Fellowship, an eight-month creative development programme for emerging writers in the United Kingdom.
Now in its twentieth year, the Escalator New Writing Fellowship supports unpublished fiction writers based in the East of England, including Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk. The programme is delivered by the National Centre for Writing and is supported by organisations such as Arts Council England, the Authors’ Licensing & Collecting Society, Amazon Literary Partnership, Garrick Charitable Trust, Golsoncott Foundation, Laura Kinsella Foundation, and the Reeves Award.
Boakye D. Alpha is a Ghanaian poet, screenwriter, filmmaker, book blogger and entrepreneur. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). His work spans literature and film, and he has received several awards and scholarships, including support from the Tony Elumelu Storytellers Fund and the MultiChoice Talent Factory scholarship for emerging African filmmakers.
His writing has appeared in international publications such as GUAP Magazine (UK) and Shallow Tales Review, among others.
Congratulations, Boakye D. Alpha!
Sarah Adeyemo
Sarah Adeyemo is a poet, writer, editor, and spoken word artiste from Nigeria. She is a fellow of the SprinNG Writing Fellowship. Sarah has work published or forthcoming work in ANMLY Lit, D’Iit Review, The Fiery Scribe Review, Con-Scio Magazine, Sevhage Review, Okiti Literary, Synchronized Chaos Magazine, Pepper Coast Magazine, The Weeds Review, Akpata Magazine, The Shallow Tales Review, The Muse Journal, The Weganda Review, Everscribe Magazine, Afrillhill Press, TV-63 Magazine, Poems for Persons Interest, Northern Writers Forum Journal, Eboquills, Rinna Lit. Anthologies, and elsewhere. Her works have been shortlisted for the 2025 Labari Prize for Poetry and longlisted for the 2025 Eriata Oribhabor Poetry Prize. She serves as the Managing Editor at Words-Empire Magazine, a Poetry Editor at Yarnz Magazine, PFPOI, and a News & Feature writer at the Journal of African Youth Literature (JAY Lit). She was a writing resident of the Rongo Artist Residency in 2026 and is currently a writing resident at the Ebedi International Writers Residency. She is a member of The Swan Collective. A dramatic poet who tweets @sarahinkspires.
