Ghana’s Mariam Mohammed wins 2025 JAY Lit Prize for Poetry

Ghana’s Mariam Mohammed wins 2025 JAY Lit Prize

A Ghanaian Poet Mariam Mohammed has been named winner of the 2025 JAY Lit Prize for Poetry. Miss Mohammed, now a PhD student studying Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures at Michigan State University, won the award for her poem “The B(lack)ody as a Map to Self,” published in Issue 9 of the Journal of African Youth Literature (JAY Lit). The award recognises outstanding contributions to African writing published in the journal over the past year. Her selection places her alongside other continental...

By Kwasi Debrah