Many congratulations to Sufiyaan Salam who was recently announced as the winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize. Sufiyaan triumphed with his novel, Wimmy Road Boyz, which is set on Manchester’s Wilmslow Road and explores masculinity and British Asian identity.
Sufiyaan’s submission was one of 800 which the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize received. The novel will be published next year by Penguin Random House.
#Merky Books was set up by Stormzy in 2018 to change the publishing landscape and has launched the careers of many new writers.
We can’t wait to read Sufiyaan’s novel and are thrilled to know that his brilliant writing will be reaching many more readers very soon.
Sufiyaan Salam won second prize in the 2022 Bristol Short Story Prize. His story is published by Tangent Books in our volume 15 anthology: https://www.tangentbooks.co.uk/shop/bristol-short-story-prize-anthology-volume-15