The Things That We Lost is the debut novel by UEA alumna Jyoti Patel and is published this week by Penguin / Merky Books. Jyoti was born in Paris to British Indian parents and grew up in London. She graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing at UEA in 2014 and from […]
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Jyoti Patel wins Merky Books New Writers Prize
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Books New Writers Prize, a competition established by the rapper Stormzy in association with Penguin Books to discover unpublished, underrepresented writers aged 16-30 from the UK and Ireland.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 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) […]
