Emmanuel Michael

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

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.

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.

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.