Determination is the novel debut by UEA alumnus Tawseef Khan and is published by Footnote Press this week. Tawseef graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2021. Tawseef is a qualified solicitor specialising in immigration and asylum law and a human rights activist with over ten years of experience working on refugee and Muslim issues. In 2016 he obtained a doctoral degree from the University of Liverpool, where his thesis explored the fairness of the British asylum system. He was a recipient of a 2017 Northern Writers Award. He is a Muslim and lives in Manchester. His first book Muslim, Actually: How Islam is Misunderstood and Why it Matters was published by Atlantic Books in 2021.
