Tope’s writing explores the tenderness and possibilities of love, together with the hopelessness of loss and its weight on the human experience.
Her fiction won second place in the inaugural Mo Siewcharran Prize and she was a finalist for the Miles Morland Prize twice. Her writing has been longlisted for the Commonwealth Prize, Guardian/4th Estate Prize, V.S. Pritchett Prize, and the Writivism Prize. Her nonfiction was also a finalist for the Brittle Paper Creative Nonfiction Prize. Tope’s writing has received support from programmes such as the Farafina Creative Writing Workshop, and her work has appeared in Tender Photos, Catapult Magazine, Isele Magazine, Archivi.ng, and in newspapers as a columnist.
She is the founder of The Oluwanifise Foundation, a social impact organisation working to close the literacy and nutrition gap in underserved communities across Nigeria.
Tope Owolabi 