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Sudipta Patra, Muminah Koleoso And Ash Norman Win MCM Scholarship

Sudipta Patra, Muminah Koleoso and Ash Norman have won this year's MCM Scholarship for Aspiring Creatives, announced today

Published Fri, 09 May 2025 06:11:06 -0500

by Rich Johnston

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Sudipta Patra, Muminah Koleoso, and Ash Norman win the 2024 MCM Scholarship for Aspiring Creatives.
Winners receive Comic Con passes, hotel stay, £500 cash prize, and a tailored networking experience.
MCM Comic Con features workshops, voice acting coaching, and literary sessions led by industry experts.
Last year’s winners connected with acclaimed authors, game studios, and Comic Publishing managers at MCM.

The winners of the second MCM Scholarship for Aspiring Creatives have been announced. Those selected to win the scholarship are granted free entry for all three days of MCM Comic Con this May, a three night stay at a hotel near Excel London and a cash prize of £500, as well as a bespoke itinerary created for them by ReedPop based on their career goals, to connect with leaders in their chosen fields. This year's MCM Scholarship winners are:

Sudipta Patra: Making his way to MCM Comic Con all the way from Northern Ireland, Sudipta is an up-and-coming comic book illustrator and children's author. The MCM Scholarship will help kickstart his goal of establishing a career as an illustrator and storyteller across comics, children's books and animation.

Muminah Koleoso: Muminah is an aspiring author and poet based in Scotland, who dreams of becoming a widely-read science fiction and fantasy author. Through her work, she amplifies underrepresented voices and pushes genre boundaries, blurring the lines between sci-fi and poetry. She aims to use the MCM Scholarship to help her build a likeminded literary community and host workshops for other marginalised creatives.

Ash Norman: Ash is an aspiring video game concept artist within game development, hoping to start a full-time career at an independent game studio. They will use the MCM Scholarship to network with video games industry professionals in attendance at MCM Comic Con and expand their artistry across gaming, music videos, films and comics.

MCM Comic Con returns to Excel London from Friday, the 23rd of May to Sunday, the 25th of May and Bleeding Cool will be there. ReedPOP states that "all visitors to MCM Comic Con will have access to valuable educational content, including special effects makeup workshops with professional SFX artist BBSFX, one-on-one voice acting coaching with voice actors JD Kelly and Trine Jensen, an interactive young adult fiction writing workshop with the author of the Mina and the Undead Trilogy, Amy McCaw amongst others."

Last year's winners were Muyembe Mwanza an aspiring novelist who was able to meet with V. E. Schwab, Veronica Roth and Sabaa Tahir at last year's MCM. Faith Molloy, studying Video Game Art and Design at De Montfort University and apprenticed at Rebellion Studios, who got to meet the founder of Roucan and organiser of W.A.S.D, David Lilley, who set Faith up with a series of 1-on-1s with game developers relevant to her interests at the EGX Career Fair. And comic book artist Leigh Licorish who met with Alex Rae, Comic Publishing Talent Manager at ReedPop and now part of this year's Artists Alley.

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