List Of Writers

JARRETT, NIGEL

Llanmouth, Grange Road, St Arvans, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 6EU
Tel: 01291 627789
Email: nigel.duncan@btopenworld.com

Short–Story writer, essayist and poet. Winner of the Rhys Davies Award for Contemporary Short Fiction. His work has appeared in London Magazine, the Observer magazine, Cyffro, Poetry Wales, Agenda, Outposts, Poetry Ireland, The Black Mountain Review (Ulster), Cambrensis, New Welsh Review, Planet, The Salisbury Review and many others. His winning Rhys Davies Award story, Mrs Kuroda on Penyfan, has been broadcast twice by the BBC. Nigel worked as a daily newspaper sub-editor, reporter and feature writer and in the late 1980s succeeded Kenneth Loveland as music critic of the South Wales Argus. He now works as a freelance writer. 

Reviews:

"…Mrs Kuroda on Penyfan is a compressed and perfectly-composed study of a Japanese company wife…"
David Callard, Planet

"…(Nomad) is so good that I am tempted to quote all of it…"
Jon Gower, New Welsh Review


Selected Publications:
Tilting at Windmills (Parthian, 1995)
Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe (Parthian / Cambrensis, 1999)
Signals 2 (London Magazine Editions, 1999)

Contributed to:
Avallaunius (guest editor) (Journal of the Arthur Machen Society, 1987)
The Day’s Portion (co-editor) (Village Publishing, 1991)