Amatesiro Dore is a 2019 writer-in-resident and fellow of the Wole Soyinka Foundation, 2009 alumnus of the Farafina Trust Creative Writers Workshop, and 2015 fellow of the Ebedi International Writers Residency. In 2016, he was awarded the Reimagined Folktale Contest and the Saraba Manuscript (Nonfiction) Prize. And his short story, For Men Who Care, was shortlisted for the 2017 Gerald Kraak Award. Recently, his works have appeared in the Johannesburg Review of Books, London's Litro, and Harvard's Transition magazine.