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Tice Cin
Cin in 2020
BornEnfield, London, England
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Writer, artist
Websitewww.ticecin.com

Tice Cin (born April 1995) is a British writer and multidisciplinary artist from North London. Her debut novel Keeping the House (2021) received a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for a British Book Award and the Desmond Elliot Prize among other accolades. Her BBC Radio 4 documentary How Much Can You Say? (2024) won an Audio Production Award.

Early life

Cin was born to Turkish Cypriot parents and grew up between Enfield and Tottenham. She began her undergraduate studies in English literature at the University of Reading and secured a Certificate of Higher Education before switching to the University of Northampton. She wrote her dissertation on portals and the unconscious mind. She went on to complete a Masters in English: Issues in Modern Literature at University College London (UCL), specialising in fluids and the posthuman body.

Career

In her teens and early twenties, Cin began her involvement with the North London music scene and admired the likes of Lex Amor, Casisdead and Gladdy Waxx.

Cin got her formal writing start when she joined the poetry community Barbican Young Poets and Headway East London. She also began creating digital art for Design Yourself, a collective based at the Barbican Centre. She joined the advisory board of the Poetry Translation Centre (PTC) and worked in various roles for the likes of Poetry School, Tilted Axis Press (where she was Associate Art Director and Commissioning Editor) and Mixmag.

Having received a 2018 London Writers Award and been mentored via the Arvon Foundation, Cin published her debut novel Keeping the House in 2021 via And Other Stories. Set between 1999 and 2012, the novel is set in and around the north London heroin trade, and follows three generations of women centred around the character Damla as she comes of age in and around Tottenham's Turkish Cypriot community. The concept came from Cin's desire to see her part of London in literature, with the novel taking place between Tottenham and North Cyprus. Keeping the House also considered 'glitchiness' and the way that hood surrealism is expressed in the minds of her characters. Cin incorporated poetry into the narrative and created a mixtape, DJ mix and playlist to accompany the novel. Keeping the House won a Somerset Maugham Award and a London Writers Award. It was also shortlisted for a British Book Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, and the Jhalak Prize.

Tice has been a judge on numerous literature and music prizes, including DJ Mag's Album of the Year and Best of British Awards, the Dylan Thomas Prize 2024, and Spread the Word's Early Career Bursary.

Cin is the founder of interdisciplinary discovery vehicle, label and production company Neoprene Genie. Cin and her team at Neoprene Genie have produced films, curated immersive theatrical music shows and community parties, creative directed and produced print-magazine editorials and collaborated with numerous partners, including Mixcloud, BBC Radio 4, No Vista, Enfield Council and Spread the Word.

In May 2024, Cin produced and provided music and poetry for the BBC Radio 4 documentary How Much Can You Say? with Jude Shapiro of Peanut & Crumb. It was also selected for BBC World Service's Illuminated podcast. The documentary looked at decades of calculated gang warfare involving Turkish, Turkish Cypriot, and Kurdish heroin dealers on the streets of north London, through the accounts of women and young people. Shapiro won Best Factual/Documentary Producer at the 2024 Audio Production Awards for her collaboration with Cin on How Much Can You Say?.

In June 2024, Cin was selected by the British Council and National Centre for Writing as one of their ILX 10 which showcases writers of prose, poetry, creative non-fiction, and those working across intersections of form. She joined her publisher And Other Stories as a contributing editor.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Keeping the House (2021)

Select essays and short stories

  • "House party and non-mainstream party culture from Tottenham to Enfield" in Guap (2021)
  • For A Personal Anthology on short stories (2021)
  • "for People Who Feel Glitched" in the Burley Fisher Bookshop Blog (2021)
  • "Notes on Queerness and Camp in Crime Fiction" in Literary Hub (2021)
  • "The list" in Cybernetics or Ghosts? (2023 edition), edited by Michael Salu for the Writers Mosiac
  • "Outside, Inside, Both" (2023)
  • "Loopholes" in Granta (2023)
  • "Soprano Machine" in Cybernetics or Ghosts? (2024 anthology), edited by Michael Salu; this anthology had an accompanying album featuring Roly Porter, Rắn Cạp Đuôi, KMRU, Ah! Cosmos and more

Accolades

Year Award Category Title Result Ref
2022 Dylan Thomas Prize Keeping the House Longlisted
British Book Awards Discover Book of the Year Shortlisted
Somerset Maugham Award Won
Desmond Elliott Prize Shortlisted
Jhalak Prize Shortlisted
Gordon Burn Prize Longlisted

References

  1. ^ Cin, Tice (20 May 2021). "House party and non-mainstream party culture from Tottenham to Enfield". Guap. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  2. ^ ""The thing about Haringey is, you never feel completely alone"". Haringey Community Press. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  3. McFarlane, Fraser (2 March 2020). "Artist Interview: Tice Cin and Pietro Bardini". Borough Road Collection Archive. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  4. ^ Kazandjian, Robert (24 May 2022). "Tice Cin is writing the London she lives". Huck. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Interview with Tice Cin". Poetry Translation Centre. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  6. Akilah, Shani (16 March 2024). "Episode #2: Tice Cin on community and gentleness". Spread the Word. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  7. Moraess, Summer (6 June 2024). "Opening up a can of worms with Tice Cin". The Worms Podcast. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  8. "Tice Cin and Gboyega Odubanjo: Barbican Young Poets 2019-20". Barbican. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  9. "Where a Memory Lives" (PDF). Headway East London, Barbican Young Poets. 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  10. "Design Yourself". Barbican. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  11. "Tice Cin". Tilted Axis Press. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  12. Naimon, David. "Between the Covers: Tice Cin Interview". Tin House. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
  13. "Kiss Kiss Studio". Poetry School. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  14. ^ "Articles by Tice Cin". MuckRack. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  15. Kenright, Laura (2 May 2019). "Tice Cin, Iqbal Hussain, Anne Chen and Jamie Hale talk about being part of the London Writers Awards 2018". Spread the Word.
  16. Jassat, Nadine Aisha. "Tice Cin: Three Women of Cyprus". Edinburgh International Book Festival. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
  17. Donkor, Michael (2 September 2021). "Keeping the House by Tice Cin review – a cult classic in the making". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  18. French, Piper (16 December 2021). ""Her Smell Spoke Another Language": On Tice Cin's "Keeping the House"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  19. ^ Cin, Tice (7 March 2023). "Loopholes". Granta. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  20. Abdi, Amal (8 February 2022). ""There's a reason why we gather in London" – artist Tice Cin explains her debut novel 'Keeping the House'". SW Londoner. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  21. ^ "Get to Know... Tice Cin: Keeping the House (And Other Stories) by Tice Cin is longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2022". National Centre for Writing. 31 May 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  22. Creamer, Ella (16 May 2024). "Caleb Azumah Nelson wins £20,000 Dylan Thomas prize for Small Worlds". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  23. "Spread the Word launches £15k Early Career Bursaries for London writers". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
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  27. "How Much Can You Say?". BBC Radio 4 Illuminated. 1 June 2024. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  28. Collins, Steve (2 November 2024). "Winners announced for the 2024 Audio Production Awards". Radio Today. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  29. "ILX10: Tice Cin". National Centre for Writing. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  30. Wood, Heloise (24 June 2024). "Authors Tice Cin and Irenosen Okojie join And Other Stories as contributing editors". The Bookseller. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  31. "Tice Cin". A Personal Anthology. 2021-09-24. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  32. "Tice Cin Recommends Books for People Who Feel Glitched". Burley Fisher Books. 2021-09-14. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  33. "Notes on Queerness and Camp in Crime Fiction". Literary Hub. 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  34. "Cybernetics & Ghosts". House of Thought. 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  35. "Essay | Outside, Inside, Both by Tice Cin". The London Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  36. "from "Cybernetics, or Ghosts?"". Cleveland Review of Books. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  37. "Literary Anthology "Cybernetics, or Ghosts? — Stories from Myth to A.I." & Compilation (SUB058)". Subtext Recordings. 2024. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  38. "Namita Gokhale chairs jury of Dylan Thomas Prize". The Asian Age. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
  39. Waite-Taylor, Eva (2022-03-25). "The British Book Awards 2022 shortlist is in". The Independent. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  40. "Tice Cin's Keeping the House wins a Somerset Maugham Award". Watson Little. 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
  41. Bayley, Sian (7 June 2022). "Cin, Cassidy and Mortimer shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  42. Brown, Lauren (19 April 2022). "Jhalak Prize 2022 shortlists announced as judges hail 'extraordinary' talent". The Bookseller. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  43. "Smith, Ypi and Cin longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize". The Bookseller. 29 June 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
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