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Winners of Second Ever MCM Scholarship for Aspiring Creatives Revealed
London, Friday 9 May: ReedPop is proud to reveal the winners of the May 2025 MCM Scholarship, returning for the second year after debuting last October. The MCM Scholarship aims to empower aspiring young creatives to take the first step into their future careers.
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. Most importantly, they will also receive a bespoke itinerary created for them by ReedPop based on their career goals, setting them up to connect with and learn from leaders in their chosen fields.
This year’s MCM Scholarship winners are:
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.
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.
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.
The reinstatement of the MCM Scholarship in 2025 comes as a part of a wider commitment to investing in the future of the creative industry and supporting young people from working class and underrepresented backgrounds who may not otherwise have easy access to their dream careers.
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.
With just under one month to go until MCM Comic Con returns to Excel London from Friday 23 May to Sunday 25 May, fans should keep an eye on the official MCM Comic Con pages for the latest announcements as ReedPop reveals guests, panels and activities in the lead up to the show.
A video of the previous winners’ experience at the convention can be found HERE.
Tickets can be purchased HERE.
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About MCM Comic Con
MCM Comic Con London is Europe’s largest fan convention, held at Excel London twice yearly since 2002, usually on the last weekend in May and October. The show is produced by ReedPop and welcomes tens of thousands of fans every year. At MCM Comic Con, attendees can expect to find everything from celebrity panels and exclusive premiers, to cosplay, comic book writing workshops, independent artists, live action role play. All these features, and more, make MCM Comic Con the ultimate celebration of pop and geek culture.
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About ReedPop
ReedPop is a boutique group within RX – one of the world’s leading event organisers. Launched in 2006, the group has become the number one producer of pop culture events globally and a full-service digital content provider and media company. Delivering once-in-a-lifetime fan experiences curated specifically for localised audiences, ReedPop currently features events in North America, Europe and Asia, including MCM Comic Con, Eurogamer Expo (EGX), New York Comic Con (NYCC), Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2), PAX West, East, and Unplugged, Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC), Star Wars Celebration, MagicCon, and more. In addition to organising and managing events, ReedPop owns and operates the pop culture news site, Popverse, which is the exclusive home for livestreams from all of ReedPop's major comic cons. The staff at ReedPop are a fan-based group of professionals uniquely qualified to build and serve the communities with whom they share a common passion. (www.reedpop.com)
