Ibrahim is a writer and editor from Nigeria. He grew up on his grandmother’s storytelling of African folklore and thus fell in love with stories, and by extension, literature. He picked his first James Hadley Chase novel at 8; and for the love of stories, was done with both the Quran and the Bible by the time he was 10. Before writing happened, Ibrahim served as a channel manager at Nigezie, the first 24hr music and lifestyle channel in Nigeria; as well as general manager at both Euphoric Heritage Records and Aquila Records where he helped with the music careers of talents like Tillaman, Tekno, Base One, Airboy, among others. Between 2010 and 2018, he also worked as a publicist for several other entertainment brands. Since leaving media and entertainment, his writing has appeared (or forthcoming) on respectable literary platforms like Transition Magazine, Typehouse Literary Magazine, JMWW, Brittle Paper, Zone 3, Popula, Ake Review, and many more.Ibrahim has won the Creative Future Writers' Award (Fiction Gold Prize), the Quramo Writers’ Prize, Goge Africa Writing Contest, and Ibua Journal’s Pack Light series. He has been supported by the Jessica George Bursary and selected for the Best Small Fiction. He was a finalist for Faber Children’s FAB Prize, the Miles Morland Writing Scholarship, and twice for the Moon City Short Fiction Award. He has also been longlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Laura Kinsella Fellowship, and the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize. He has multiple nominations for both the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. In July 2022, he was named Writer of the Month by Brittle Paper. He is endorsed by Arts Council England for his ‘writing exceptionalism’. Among other things, he presently serves as Managing Editor at The Journal of African Youth Literature, a Subject Matter Expert at Wordbrew, and a Fiction Judge at NYC Midnight. He's presently a member of The Witsprouts Initiative's advisory board and he co-edited Witsprout's Love is Stronger in Death anthology. In 2020, he judged REEL Foundation’s Young Writer’s Challenge for kids aged between 7 to 12 and edited an anthology of the 15 best stories therein. Ibrahim's work explores the human experience from an African perspective. He believes in the power of storytelling, not just for its entertainment, but more importantly, its unrivalled ability to shape minds across generations. Do you have a writing gig? Send Ibrahim a private message or shoot him an email to heemthewriter@gmail.com