The Dying Embers of Our Setting Sun a collection of essays by UEA alumna Michelle Alipao Chikaonda was announced as a runner-up for the Deborah Rogers Foundation (DRF) Writers Award. Michelle graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Biography & Creative Non-Fiction) in 2023. She has won the Literary Award for Narrative Nonfiction of the Tucson Festival of Books, the Stephen J. Meringoff Award for Nonfiction of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, and the Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Scholarship for writers of color from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. In 2015 she was nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the Oracle Fine Arts Review, and in 2020 she was longlisted for the inaugural Toyin Falola Prize for emerging African writers; her essay was published in the prize’s anthology, “In the Sands of Time” (2021).
Michelle Alipao Chikaonda runner-up for Deborah Rogers Award
