Night Dancer by UEA alumna Yvonne Zabu (Zabu Wamara) has been longlisted for the Holland House Books’ The Island Prize for a Debut Novel from Africa, a prize that provides support for new authors navigating the process of book publishing. Yvonne (pictured) graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) with distinction as a Global Voices Scholar in 2024. Her short story “Cracking” was the titular piece of the Ugandan cohort’s anthology under the International Chair of Creative Writing project, while her creative nonfiction “Akafuuzi” was published in The Weganda Review (Issue 6). In 2024, she was selected for the Miles Morland African Writers’ Residency.
