List of Sierra Leonean writers

This is a list of Sierra Leonean writers.


 * John Akar (1927–1975), broadcaster, playwright and diplomat
 * Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), exiled writer and journalist
 * Ishmael Beah (born 1980), child soldier and memoirist
 * Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912), pan-Africanist, born in the Virgin Islands (see also Liberia)
 * Adelaide Casely-Hayford (1868–1960), short story writer and educator
 * Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet also associated with Ghana
 * Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945/47), poet, journalist and novelist
 * Robert Wellesley-Cole (1907–1995), surgeon and autobiographical writer
 * William Conton (1925–2003), educator, historian, and novelist also associated with The Gambia
 * R. Sarif Easmon (1913–1997), doctor, playwright and novelist
 * Aminatta Forna (born 1964), memoirist and novelist
 * Namina Forna (born 1987), novelist and screen writer
 * Wilfred Freddy Will Kanu Jr. (born 1977) author, poet, lyricist, hip-hop emcee and blogger.
 * Africanus Horton (1835–1883), Creole African nationalist writer
 * Delia Jarrett-Macauley (living), academic and novelist
 * Lemuel A. Johnson (1940/41–2002), poet and academic
 * Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), academic and literary critic
 * Joseph Ben Kaifala (living), historian, memoirist and human rights activist
 * Yulisa Amadu Maddy (1936–2014), playwright, novelist, and choreographer
 * Ambrose Massaquoi (born 1964), poet, musician and educationist
 * Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), later took the name Ohlohr Maigi, barrister, writer and munitions worker
 * Abioseh Nicol (1924–1994), doctor and short story writer
 * Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), poet also associated with The Gambia
 * Ekundayo Rowe (born 1937), journalist and short-story writer