The Café Royal Cultural Foundation NYC has awarded a 2026 Winter Literature Grant to Sidik Fofana for the story collection, tentatively titled "Brief Moments in Black History"  

Brief Moments in Black History (tentatively titled) is a collection of 3-10 page stories that each deal with an aspect of the black experience in America. They are stories that can each be read in one class period, among them one told from the perspective of To Kill a Mockingbird’s Tom Robinson and a tale of police aggression unconventionally rendered.

Sidik Fofana is a public school teacher and graduate of NYU’s MFA Creative Writing program. He is a recipient of a Whiting Award, New York City Book Award, a Gotham Book Prize for his collection Stories from the Tenants Downstairs. His fiction has been published in the Sewanee Review, Granta, and Harper’s.