Molara Wood

Molara Wood is a writer, journalist, critic, editor and speechwriter. She won the inaugural John La Rose Memorial Short Story Competition and received a Commonwealth Broadcasting Association award for her fiction.

She is widely published internationally and has served on the judging panels of several awards including: the Zuma International Film Festival, the Etisalat Prize for Literature, and the Quramo Writers Prize.

Described as ‘one of the eminent voices in the Arts in Nigeria,’ and with credits across film, literature and visual art, she served as Arts and Culture Editor of NEXT Newspaper, and was for many years an Arts columnist for The Guardian. She continues to write on books and the arts for publications including the BBC and The Irish Times.

Molara Wood is one of 10 Nigerian women writers featured in a Google Arts and Culture exhibit on the city of Lagos, and was selected for the LOATAD West African Writers Residency 2022. She also hosts the ART for the People Podcast.

She is the author of INDIGO, a collection of short stories with a strong focus on the condition of women in society.