Stormzy has announced the launch of a new publishing imprint, Merky Books, in collaboration with Penguin Random House, which aims to be a platform for young writers to become published authors.

The Blinded By Your Grace hitmaker's own book, Rise Up: The #Merky Journey So Far, will be the first released under the new imprint in November, and he commented 'I know too many talented writers that don’t always have an outlet or a means to get their work seen and hopefully Merky Books can now be a reference point for them to say “I can be an author” and for that to be a realistic and achievable goal'.