Remember Oluwale
The Remember Oluwale Writing Prize is a new creative writing competition for short stories and poems in response to the life of David Oluwale, who arrived from Nigeria in Leeds in 1949 and faced issues including mental ill-health, homelessness, racism, police brutality and incarceration in prisons and hospitals before being found drowned in the River Aire in 1969. A full account of his life can be read in Kester Aspden’s The Hounding of David Oluwale, and in Foreigners: Three English Lives by Caryl Phillips, who has called for a memorial in Leeds to David.