Janice Okoh

Janice Okoh is a multi-award-winning British-Nigerian playwright and radio dramatist. She has an MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) from the University of East Anglia, has worked as a Lecturer at Southampton University and, for seven years, as a banking paralegal in the city.

In 2023, Janice Okoh was awarded a Mary Prince Memorial Award from the Black Writer’s Guild for her novel-in-progress The Girl with the Light Eyes and was shortlisted for the Bath Novel Prize in the same year. She has also participated in the Thrive (Hachette) Grow Your Story Mentoring Programme and Harper Collins’ Author Academy. 

Janice was part of the 2024-25 cohort of A Writing Chance, on the Faber strand.