25.8k Followers, 249 Following, 124 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from #Merky Books (@merkybooks) I meet him in Creams, on Brixton high street, a dessert café filled with the heady scent of Oreo waffles. Eventually, he finds love. Stormzy’s team has been proactive in putting forward promising young writers.
“I have been thinking about writing my memoirs for a while now, but the right moment never presented itself until a meeting with #Merky Books… an imprint that embraces new methods and ideas,” she tells me over email.The #Merky Books Instagram account has 17.5k followers and no shortage of submissions. Analytics cookies help us to improve our website by collecting and reporting information on how you use it. Launching in July 2018, it has gone on to publish three books: The recent signing of Malorie Blackman, the former Children’s Laureate, to publish her autobiography, is a major coup for the imprint. 'Derek Owusu's writing is honest, moving, delicate, but tough. Our authors, brands and characters range from Ali Smith to Zadie Smith; Malorie Blackman to … Preference and Feature cookies allow our website to remember choices you make, such as your language preferences and any customisations you make to pages on our website during your visit. It’s telling, then, how the wider publishing industry perceives it.A quick call around a few publishing houses to get their impressions on the new imprint elicits a range of responses, from “a home for young black men” to “a music imprint”, which gets a laugh in the room when I share it. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. K is sent into care before a year marks his birth. When K is eleven, the city reclaims him. What makes Stormzy’s imprint so different?The team are all characters worth reading about themselves.
Twenty-two-year-old editorial assistant Gabriel, who routinely dresses all in purple (today she has a crop of lilac hair, violet glasses and a purple jumper), currently on an internship programme, was the first in her British Grenadan family to go to university, and publishes a radical zine, #Merky Books was the unlikely result of a meeting at which Avery invited Stormzy to write a book for Penguin in the summer of 2015. #Merky Books was the unlikely result of a meeting at which Avery invited Stormzy to write a book for Penguin in the summer of 2015. He learns how to navigate the city. All rights reserved. We connect the world with the stories, writing and ideas that matter. He returns to an unknown mother and a part-time father, trading the fields for flats and a community that is alien to him.
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These cookies may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages. The first book #Merky will publish is by Stormzy himself, titled Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far. #Merky Books is a new imprint within Penguin Random House UK, dedicated to publishing the best new fiction, non-fiction and poetry. In reality, the sheer breadth of the #Merky roster quietly makes the point about the thrill of diverse writing without labouring the point which should by now be obvious: that universal stories can come from anywhere. The #Merky story takes you on a journey of such hope it’s incredible. The way the book is sectioned perfectly mirrors Stormzy’s rise and the #Merky brand growing. It gives readers an insight into the work behind the brand and how important teamwork really is. To find out what personal data we collect and how we use it, please visit our Oops! #Merky Books is an imprint of Penguin Random House – the UK’s number one book publisher. it seems you've already subscribed to this newsletter.
Stormzy's publishing imprint is set to release a new series of non-fiction books offering tips on topics from activism to writing. If the heritage of the Penguin brand gave #Merky legitimacy in the publishing world, the Stormzy name broke down some of the barriers to access, reimagining the kind of stories that might “get far”.