Tice Cin

Tice Cin
Cin for the British Library in 2022
Born	(1995-04-21) 21 April 1995 (age 29) Enfield, London, England
Alma mater	University of Northampton University College London
Website	www.ticecin.com

Tice Cin (born April 1995) is a British writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her debut novel Keeping the House (2021) received a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for a British Book Award among other accolades.

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Career

In her teens and early twenties, Cin was involved in the North London DJ scene and admired the likes of Gladdy Wax.^[1]

Cin got her formal writing start when she was admitted to Barbican Young Poets.^[3][4] She also began creating digital art for Design Yourself.^[5] She joined the advisory board of the Poetry Translation Centre (PTC)^[3] and worked in various roles for the likes of SAGE Publishing, Tilted Axis Press,^[6] and Cottage Fields, and New Muslim Stories.^[7][8]

Having received a 2018 London Writers Award and been mentored via the Arvon Foundation,^[9][10] Cin published her debut novel Keeping the House in 2021 via And Other Stories. Set between 1999 and 2012,^[11][12] the novel follows three generations of women centred around the character Ayla as she comes of age in 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 on Broadwater Farm.^[2] Cin incorporated poetry into the narrative and created a DJ mix and playlist to accompany the novel.^[13] 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.

In 2024, Cin joined her publisher And Other Stories as a contributing editor.^[14]

Bibliography

Novels

• Keeping the House (2021)

Essays and short stories

• "Loopholes" in Granta (2023)^[15]
• "Outside, Inside, Both" (2023)
• "The list" in Cybernetics or Ghosts? (2023 edition), edited by Michael Salu for the Writers Mosiac^[16][17]

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Title	Result	Ref
2022	Dylan Thomas Prize		Keeping the House	Longlisted	[18]
	British Book Awards	Discover Book of the Year		Shortlisted	[19]
	Somerset Maugham Award			Won	[20]
	Desmond Elliott Prize			Shortlisted	[21][22]
	Jhalak Prize			Shortlisted	[23]
	Gordon Burn Prize			Longlisted	[24]

References

1. ""The thing about Haringey is, you never feel completely alone"". Haringey Community Press. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
2. Kazandjian, Robert (24 May 2022). "Tice Cin is writing the London she lives". Huck. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
3. "Interview with Tice Cin". Poetry Translation Centre. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
4. "Tice Cin and Gboyega Odubanjo: Barbican Young Poets 2019-20". Barbican. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
5. "Design Yourself". Barbican. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
6. "Tice Cin". Tilted Axis Press. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
7. Naimon, David. "Between the Covers: Tice Cin Interview". Tin House. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
8. "About Us". Cottage Fields. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
9. 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.
10. Jassat, Nadine Aisha. "Tice Cin: Three Women of Cyprus". Edinburgh International Book Festival. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
11. Donkor, Michael (2 September 2021). "Keeping the House by Tice Cin review – a cult classic in the making". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Wood, Heloise (24 June 2024). "Authors Tice Cin and Irenosen Okojie join And Other Stories as contributing editors". The Bookseller. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
15. Cin, Tice (7 March 2023). "Loopholes". Granta. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
16. "Cybernetics & Ghosts". House of Thought. 2023. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
17. "Articles by Tice Cin". MuckRack. Retrieved 7 November 2024.
18. "Namita Gokhale chairs jury of Dylan Thomas Prize". The Asian Age. 3 February 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
19. Waite-Taylor, Eva (2022-03-25). "The British Book Awards 2022 shortlist is in". The Independent. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
20. "Tice Cin's Keeping the House wins a Somerset Maugham Award". Watson Little. 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2023-02-10.
21. Bayley, Sian (7 June 2022). "Cin, Cassidy and Mortimer shortlisted for Desmond Elliott Prize". The Bookseller. Retrieved 8 June 2022.
22. "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.
23. Brown, Lauren (19 April 2022). "Jhalak Prize 2022 shortlists announced as judges hail 'extraordinary' talent". The Bookseller. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
24. "Smith, Ypi and Cin longlisted for Gordon Burn Prize". The Bookseller. 29 June 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2024.