Flash Fiction Winners announced at Awards Ceremony

28 Jan 2025

The latest edition of the annual SALC Flash Fiction and Non-fiction Competition invited undergraduate students to submit an original and unpublished piece of writing of less than 250 words.

The winners of the 2024 SALC Flash Fiction and Non-fiction Competition were announced at a ceremony on Wednesday 11 December, with prizes presented by Professor Olutayo Adesina, distinguished Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL): 

Abubakar Sesay – Black is a Bruise
Carina Sanches – The Line
Saachin Chandran – Mixed Face
Emmanuel Omoniyi – L'Etudiant Noir   

Dr Sheena Kalayil, Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and a member of the judging panel, said:

“Our students once again showed the breadth of creativity in our School, as evidenced by the high quality of all our entrants. We chose four winners, which was no easy task - and congratulate these students on the power, eloquence beauty of their writing.”

Sheena’s fellow judge, Dr Ingrid Hanson, added:

“It was a pleasure to be part of the judging process for this award and to read the varied, powerful and moving texts – fiction, non-fiction and poetry - that came in as part of the competition, communicating a rich range of experiences, emotions, relationships, snapshots of history, politics, aspirations, ideas and viewpoints in the context of Black History Month. The winners made particularly strong use of their chosen literary form.”