List of Sierra Leonean writers

This is a list of Sierra Leonean writers.

• John Akar (1927–1975), broadcaster, playwright and diplomat^[Jahn]
• Gaston Bart-Williams (1938–1990), exiled writer and journalist^[Jahn]
• 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^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Gladys Casely-Hayford (1904–1950), poet also associated with Ghana^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Syl Cheney-Coker (born 1945/47), poet, journalist and novelist^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Robert Wellesley-Cole (1907–1995), surgeon and autobiographical writer^[Jahn]
• William Conton (1925–2003), educator, historian, and novelist also associated with The Gambia^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• R. Sarif Easmon (1913–1997), doctor, playwright and novelist^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• 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. ^[1]
• Africanus Horton (1835–1883), Creole African nationalist writer^[Jahn]
• Delia Jarrett-Macauley (living), academic and novelist^[2]
• Lemuel A. Johnson (1940/41–2002), poet and academic^{[Gikandi] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Eldred Durosimi Jones (1925–2020), academic and literary critic^[Jahn]
• Joseph Ben Kaifala (living), historian, memoirist and human rights activist
• Yulisa Amadu Maddy (1936–2014), playwright, novelist, and choreographer^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Ambrose Massaquoi (born 1964), poet, musician and educationist^[Brown]
• Augustus Merriman-Labor (1877–1919), later took the name Ohlohr Maigi, barrister, writer and munitions worker^[3]
• Abioseh Nicol (1924–1994), doctor and short story writer^{[Gikandi] [Jahn] [Killam & Rowe]}
• Lenrie Peters (1932–2009), poet also associated with The Gambia^[Gikandi]
• Ekundayo Rowe (born 1937), journalist and short-story writer^[Jahn]