Ola W. Halim

Ola W. Halim is a Nigerian writer whose thematic concerns mainly revolve around queerness, albinism, inclusive education, social criticism, and feminism. He has work published or forthcoming on the Kalahari Review, African Writer, Dwartsonline, Lolwe, Brittle Paper, adda, Iskanchi, ARTmosterrific, Black Pride Magazine, Punocracy, Literanda, Tuck Magazine, etc. He has been shortlisted for the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the 2019 TFCN Teacher’s Prize for Literature, the 2019 Sevhage Short Story Prize, and the 2020 Punocracy Prize for Satire. In 2020, his story "Miracle" won the LitFest Prize for Prose. He also won the 2020 PIN Annual Food Poetry Contest for his poem "Garri: '67-'70". He was the fifth place winner of the inaugural Ekonke Short Story Prize (2021).

Halim is a teacher of English Language and Literature, a prose editor at ARTmosterrific, and a fiction mentor with SprinNG. He lives mostly in his head, where he creates stories and sprinkles memorable characters on them

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