Uduak-Abasi Ekong is a Manchester-based Nigerian writer whose work appears in Afraeda, Brittle Paper, Wensum Literary, and elsewhere, including the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize Anthology and the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize Anthology.

Her novel Welcome Back Darling (aka A Kind of Resurrection) won the 2025 Exeter Novel Prize, was runner-up for the inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize Discoveries Award. Her other honours include shortlistings for the Merky New Writers’ Prize, Creative Future Writers’ Award, Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, and Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize. She was a 2026 SmokeLong Emerging Writer Fellow and an alumna of the Faber Academy.