{"id":6408,"date":"2026-03-02T00:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/?post_type=writer&#038;p=6408"},"modified":"2026-03-02T00:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:22:08","slug":"sumaila-isah-umaisha","status":"publish","type":"writer","link":"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/sumaila-isah-umaisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumaila Isah Umaisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sumaila Isah Umaisha<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has worked as a Literary Editor since 1994 with several media organisations, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hotline<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> magazine, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Nigerian Newspapers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blueprint Newspapers<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and later served as Editor at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nigerian Newsday<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Newspaper from 2013 to 2020. His work in literary journalism has earned him multiple awards, notably the Literary Journalist Prize of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA), which he won twice; in 2004 and 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His short stories, poems, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous national and international journals, magazines, and anthologies, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drumvoices Revue<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (USA) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The London Magazine<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. His first book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hoodlums<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2010), a collection of short stories, is a recommended text in several Nigerian universities. His novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glasshouse<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2022) was longlisted for the James Currey Prize for African Literature and shortlisted for the ANA Prose Prize in the same year. His recent works include the play <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iburama<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2023) and the novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lost in the Wild<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2024).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is the founder and coordinator of Authors\u2019 Hub, a global writers\u2019 collective dedicated to nurturing young writers and advancing literary development.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6409,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"writer_category":[],"writer_tag":[],"class_list":["post-6408","writer","type-writer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","thb-post-share-style1"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sumaila Isah Umaisha - Masobe Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/masobebooks.com\/ng\/writer\/sumaila-isah-umaisha\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sumaila Isah Umaisha\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sumaila Isah Umaisha has worked as a Literary Editor since 1994 with several media organisations, including Hotline magazine, New Nigerian Newspapers, and Blueprint Newspapers, and later served as Editor at Nigerian Newsday Newspaper from 2013 to 2020. 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