2024 Chair, Nero Gold Prize for best overall book
2024 Chair, Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Prize (Cassava Republic)
2024 Sunny Dupree Family Award for a Woman Artist, Royal Academy of Arts
2023 Chair, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Best Overall Book
2023 Chair, Forward Prize Best Collection & Best First Collection
2021 Chair, Women’s Prize for Fiction
2020 Sunday Times Style Journalist Competition
2019 Harpers Bazaar Short Story Competition
2019 Polari Book Prize for LGBTQ+ fiction
2019 Anthony Burgess/ Observer Prize for Arts Journalism
2019 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry
2018 40 new Fellows under 40 for the Royal Society of Literature
2018 Chair: The Brunel Int. African Poetry Prize
2018 Isis magazine Writing Competition, Oxford University
2018 The Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition
2018 Geneva Writers Prize (Switzerland)
2017 (annual) Chair Brunel Int. African Poetry Prize
2016 Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize
2016 The Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction
2016 The Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets (USA)
2016 (annual) Chair: The Brunel Int. African Poetry Prize
2015 Prairie Schooner First Book Prize (USA)
2015 Costa Best Novel Award & Costa Book of the Year
2015 First Story National Writing Competition
2015 (annual) Chair: The Brunel Int. African Poetry Prize
2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Poetry (Trinidad)
2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, USA
2014 (annual) Chair: The Brunel Int. African Poetry Prize
2013 Golden Baobab Prize, Ghana (Short stories for African children)
2013 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets (USA)
2013 (annual) Chair: The Brunel Int. African Poetry Prize
2012 Founder & Chair of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize
2012 The Poetry Society’s Poetry News competition
2012 Chair: The Caine Prize for African Fiction
2012 Chair: The Commonwealth Short Story Prize
2011 The Peacock Poetry Prize (Brighton Festival)
2010 TS Eliot Prize (Poetry)
2010 Alfred Fagan Award – (Black plays)
2010 Orange Award for New Writers (Women’s fiction)
2009 Muslim Writers Awards with Penguin (Fiction)
2008 Decibel Penguin Prize (Fiction)
2007 Northern Rock Writers’ Award (Fiction & Poetry)
2006 The National Poetry Competition
2004 The Next Generation Top 20 List, organised by PBS and Poetry Society
1997 Ian St. James’ Award (Fiction)
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