List of Sierra Leonean writers
This is a list of Sierra Leonean writers.
- John Akar, broadcaster, playwright and diplomat
- Gaston Bart-Williams, exiled writer and journalist
- Ishmael Beah, child soldier and memoirist
- Edward Wilmot Blyden, pan-Africanist, born in the Virgin Islands
- Adelaide Casely-Hayford, short story writer and educator
- Gladys Casely-Hayford, poet also associated with Ghana
- Syl Cheney-Coker, poet, journalist and novelist
- Robert Wellesley-Cole, surgeon and autobiographical writer
- William Conton, educator, historian, and novelist also associated with The Gambia
- R. Sarif Easmon, doctor, playwright and novelist
- Aminatta Forna, memoirist and novelist
- Namina Forna, novelist and screen writer
- Wilfred Freddy Will Kanu Jr. author, poet, lyricist, hip-hop emcee and blogger.
- Africanus Horton, Creole African nationalist writer
- Delia Jarrett-Macauley, academic and novelist
- Lemuel A. Johnson, poet and academic
- Eldred Durosimi Jones, academic and literary critic
- Joseph Ben Kaifala, historian, memoirist and human rights activist
- Yulisa Amadu Maddy, playwright, novelist, and choreographer
- Ambrose Massaquoi, poet, musician and educationist
- Augustus Merriman-Labor, later took the name Ohlohr Maigi, barrister, writer and munitions worker
- Abioseh Nicol, doctor and short story writer
- Lenrie Peters, poet also associated with The Gambia
- Ekundayo Rowe, journalist and short-story writer