The Speculative Literature Foundation is pleased to announce that Frances Ogamba is the winner of the 2025 Gulliver Travel Research Grant.

Since 2004, the Gulliver Travel Research Grant has sought to assist writers of speculative literature (in fiction, poetry, drama, or creative nonfiction) in their research. The grant awards one writer $1000 annually, to be used to cover airfare, lodging, and/or other travel expenses.

Ogamba’s winning piece is The Further.

Frances Ogamba is a 2025 Mercatus Center’s Don Lavoie Fellow at George Mason University, a 2025 Tin House Scholar, a 2024 Jacobson Scholar at the Hawkinson Foundation for Peace and Justice, and a 2024 Miles Morland Writing Scholar. She is a recipient of the 2025 Diversity Grant from Horror Writers Association, 2024 Walter H. Judd Travel fellowship, the 2024 COGS Research grant, the AKO Caine Prize editorial fellowship and the 2022 College of Liberal Arts fellowship from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Her awards include the 2022 Diana Woods Award in Creative Nonfiction, the 2020 Kalahari Short Story Competition, and the 2019 Koffi Addo Prize for Creative Nonfiction. She is a runner up for the 2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the 2023 Locus Awards, 2019 Writivism Short Story Prize and 2019 Brittle Paper Awards for short fiction. Her work is forthcoming or appears in The Hopkins Review, Ambit, Ninth Letter, Channel, Chestnut Review, CRAFT, New Orleans Review, Lunch Ticket, Vestal Review, The Dark Magazine, Horror Library, Uncharted, Frivolous Comma, Jalada Africa, in The Best of World SF and elsewhere.