Hubaidat Oyinkansola Ishola was declared the Quramo Writers’ Prize 2025 winner at a ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, on Saturday, October 4, 2025.
The Quramo Writers’ Prize is awarded annually to an unpublished fiction manuscript by an unpublished author. Nigeria-based Quramo Publishers founded it to encourage and stimulate a new community of talented writers and to provide an opportunity for otherwise unexposed talent to achieve publishing recognition. Previous winners have been Samuel Monye (2017), Michael Emmanuel (2018), Vivian Onyekachi Ibe (2019), Kadiri Alex (2020), Akinnimi Akintomiwa Oluwaseun (2021), Ibrahim Babatunde Ibrahim (2022), Chiziterem Chijioke (2023), and Arthur Gabriel Yak (2024).
The 2025 edition kicked off with the announcement of the longlist on Saturday, August 2 by the jury of Aduke Gomez (jury head), Wase Aguele-Konu, and Anote Ajeluorou. The finalists were then revealed to be texts by Chioma Jane Okeagu, Abiola Junaid, and Hubaidat Oyinkansola Ishola in September.
At the Quramo Festival of Words, Qfest, Hubaidat Oyinkansola Ishola’s manuscript “What Breaks, What Binds” was celebrated at a ceremony overseen by Quramo Publishing CEO Gbemi Shasore and festival headliner Mukoma Wa Ngugi at the Eko Hotel in Lagos on Saturday.
This was not Ishola’s first time participating in this competition, with one of her entries making the shortlist for the 2021 edition.
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