One Of Six by UEA alumna Jyoti Patel has been announced as the winner of the 2021 Merky Books New Writers Prize, a competition established by the rapper Stormzy in association with Penguin Books to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16-30 from the UK and Ireland. Her novel was selected from more than 2,000 submissions […]
Jyoti Patel
Jyoti Patel longlisted for the Merky Books New Writers’ Prize
Recent UEA Creative Writing graduate Jyoti Patel has been longlisted for the Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. Jyoti (pictured) was born in Paris to British Indian parents and grew up in London. She graduated from UEA with a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2014 and completed the MA Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) […]
An Extract from ‘Six of One’, a Novel
Nik yearns to know more about his father, who died before he was born. But with his mother refusing to speak about what happened, Nik discovers that his recently-deceased grandfather may have left him a way to uncover the truth for himself. ‘Nikhil. I need the car please, beta. Can you come home?’ Nik […]
