- 1997: Ian St. James Award (Fiction)[220]
- 2004: The Next Generation Top 20 List, organised by PBS and Poetry Society[220]
- 2006: The National Poetry Competition[220]
- 2007: Northern Rock Writers' Award (Fiction & Poetry)[220]
- 2008: Decibel Penguin Prize (Fiction)[221]
- 2009: Young Muslim Writers Awards with Penguin Publishers (Fiction)[222]
- 2010: Alfred Fagon Award – (Black plays)
- 2010: Orange Award for New Writers (Women's fiction)
- 2010: T. S. Eliot Prize (Poetry)[223]
- 2011: Peacock Poetry Prize (Brighton Festival)
- 2012: Chair: Caine Prize for African Fiction
- 2012: Chair: Commonwealth Short Story Prize
- 2012: Founder & Chair of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize
- 2012: The Poetry Society's Poetry News competition
- 2013: Chair: The Brunel International African Poetry Prize
- 2013: Golden Baobab Prize, Ghana (Short stories for African children)
- 2013: Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets (USA)
- 2014: Chair: The Brunel International African Poetry Prize
- 2014: OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Poetry (Trinidad)
- 2014: Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, USA
- 2015: Chair: The Brunel International African Poetry Prize
- 2015: Costa Book Award Best Novel & Costa Book of the Year
- 2015: First Story National Writing Competition
- 2015: Prairie Schooner First Book Prize (USA)
- 2016: Chair: The Brunel International African Poetry Prize
- 2016: Goldsmiths Prize for innovative fiction
- 2016: Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize
- 2016: Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets (USA)[224]
- 2017: Chair: Brunel International African Poetry Prize
- 2018: 40 New Fellows under 40 Royal Society of Literature
- 2018: Chair: Brunel International African Poetry Prize
- 2018: Geneva Writers' Prize
- 2018: Isis magazine Writing Competition, Oxford University
- 2018: The Queen's Commonwealth Essay Competition
- 2019: Anthony Burgess/Observer newspaper Award for Arts' Journalism
- 2019: Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry[225]
- 2019: Harper's Short Story Award
- 2019: Polari Book Prize for LGBTQ+ fiction
- 2021: Chair, Women's Prize for Fiction[226][220]
- 2021: Sunday Times Style Journalism Competition[227] 2023: Chair, Forward Prize for Poetry
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