Michael Emmanuel


Michael Emmanuel is a Nigerian fiction and creative nonfiction writer. He won the 2018 Quramo Writer’s Prize.

Personal life and education

Emmanuel has an elder brother and lives in Lagos with his mother, he is a practicing Christian. Since 2017, he has been a student of Federal University of Technology, Akure and studies Chemistry. Aside writing and reading, he keeps up with basketball, tennis and some graphics design.

Awards

In 2016, Emmanuel won NaNoWriMo award, a program that allows writers to write 50,000 words in 30 days.In 2018, he won Quramo Writer’s Prize, for his manuscript titled Running Waters, he took home 1 million Naira and a contract with Quramo Publishing.

Features and mentions

He has been featured in Kalahari Review in his fictional submission What It Feels Like To Die, a story about death and the Nigerian Civil War. He has also been featured in Brittle Paper in his fictional submission, The Last Word.