Wimmy Road Boyz – Sufiyaan Salam

in conversation with Beth Perry
Sat 17 October, 2026 at 7:00 pm

Three brown boyz drive down Manchester’s Curry Mile in pursuit of a wild night out. Three boys with nothing to do and something to prove. Of course there’s gonna be trouble, chaos and mischief. What the boys don’t know: this night might just be their last. Wimmy Road Boyz is a blistering story of masculinity, violence and love set over the course of a single, surreal night from a wholly original new British talent. Winner of the #Merky Books New Writers’ Prize hear Sufiyaan talk about his riotous, tender, high energy debut that is as inventive as it is enjoyable.

Sufiyaan Salam is a writer and former animator from Blackburn. He co-wrote the short film MAGID / ZAFAR, which won the BIFA award in 2025 and was shortlisted for a BAFTA for Best Short Film. Wimmy Road Boyz is his first novel.

‘An energetic-livewire masterpiece’ – Nikesh Shukla

‘A standard bearer for a new generation of literary novelists’ The Guardian

Part of the Writing the City strand curated by Professor Beth Perry, Director of Urban Institute, University of Sheffield