Nick Mulgrew
Nick Mulgrew (born 1990) is a South African-British novelist, poet, and editor. In addition to his writing, he is the founder and director of the poetry press uHlanga. Education. Mulgrew studied English and Journalism at Rhodes University, Makhanda, and later at the University of Cape Town, at which he was a Mandela Rhodes Scholar. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Dundee. Writing. Mulgrew is the author of four books, and is best known for his short fiction. His first collection of stories, "Stations", was published in 2016 when he was 25. The book  was longlisted for the 2017 Edge Hill Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the 2017 Nadine Gordimer Award. Mulgrew eventually won the 2018 Nadine Gordimer Award with his second collection of stories, "The First Law of Sadness", which was published in 2017. His stories have elsewhere appeared in "The White Review", "World Literature Today", and "New Contrast". His first novel, "A Hibiscus Coast", was published in South Africa by Karavan Press in 2021. His first poetry collection, "the myth of this is that we're all in this together", was published by uHlanga in 2015. Publishing. In 2014, Mulgrew founded  the poetry press uHlanga, which he operates and directs. Mulgrew commissions and designs all of the press's books, and edits most of them. uHlanga has launched the careers in publication of many South African poets, most notably Maneo Mohale and Koleka Putuma, who are both winners of the Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry for titles published by uHlanga. The press's authors and books have also won various South African awards, including two Ingrid Jonker Prizes (for "Failing Maths and My Other Crimes" by Thabo Jijana and "Zikr" by Saaleha Idrees Bamjee) and two South African Literary Awards  for Poetry (for "Prunings" by Helen Moffett and "All the Places" by Musawenkosi Khanyile). Mulgrew was a founding associate editor of the Cape Town-based literary magazine "Prufrock", and continued to be its fiction editor until it ceased publication. Other work and awards. From 2013 to 2015, Mulgrew was the beer critic for South African "Sunday Times". 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