Manchester-based Nigerian writer. Her work appears in Afreada, Brittle Paper, Wensum Literary, and elsewhere — including the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology and the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Anthology.
Winner — 2025 Exeter Novel Prize
Novel
Welcome Back Darling
Selected
Winner
Exeter Novel Prize
The Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction
Women’s Prize — Discoveries
Winner
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize
Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize
Creative Future Writers’ Award
SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellowship
2026
Afreada
WENSUM
Ojuju
Everscribe
Uduak-Abasi’s debut novel Welcome Back Darling (also known as A Kind of Resurrection) won the 2025 Exeter Novel Prize, was runner-up for the inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize Discoveries Award.
Her short fiction has been recognised by the Merky New Writers’ Prize, Creative Future Writers’ Award, Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, and Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. She was a 2026 SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellow and is an alumna of the Faber Academy.
Novel, Short Fiction, Flash
Manchester, United Kingdom
Faber Academy Alumna
