Nick Mulgrew


Nick Mulgrew is a South African-British writer, poet, editor and publisher.

Education and career

Mulgrew studied English and Journalism at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, and later at the University of Cape Town, at which he was a Mandela Rhodes Scholar.
In 2014, Mulgrew founded the poetry press uHlanga, and acts as its publisher. Books Mulgrew has published have won various awards, including the Ingrid Jonker Prize and the South African Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a founding editor of the literary magazine Prufrock.

Writing

Mulgrew is the author of three books: a poetry collection the myth of this is that we're all in this together, published by uHlanga in 2015, and two collections of short stories, Stations and The First Law of Sadness, published by David Philip Publishers in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
As a journalist, he is a contributor to the Mail & Guardian and the South African Sunday Times

Awards

Mulgrew's debut work of fiction, Stations, was longlisted for the 2017 Edge Hill Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Nadine Gordimer Award.
Mulgrew is the winner of the 2016 Thomas Pringle Award for Short Stories, the National Arts Festival Short Sharp Stories Awards in 2014, and a South African Arts Journalism Awards Special Silver Merit for Features, 2014. He was shortlisted for The White Review Prize and the Ake/Air France Prize for Prose in 2015. He was also a nominee for the South African Arts Journalist of the Year Award in 2014.