More good news. The Road to the Salt Sea is a finalist for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.

I feel so incredibly honored to be awarded the 2025 Whiting Award in Fiction for The Road to the Salt Sea. I am glad this novel is finding its way out in the world.

Congratulations to @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

Thank you, Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s, for sharing your novel, The Road to the Salt Sea, during #fallforthebook's MINI FEST. @samuelkolawole.bsky.social Thanks to #VAHumanities for the support & Aster Equine Photography.

THE ROAD TO THE SALT SEA is on the longlist for the 2025 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel. Grateful and honored!

Miami Book Fair this weekend. See you there !

Honored to be longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize and I'm in excellent company. www.aspenwords.org/literary-pri...