Nigel Jarrett is a Welsh writer, a former daily-newspaperman, and a double prizewinner: the Rhys Davies award for short fiction and the inaugural Templar Shorts award.

His first collection of stories, Funderland, was published by Parthian and warmly reviewed in the Independent, the Guardian, the Times, and elsewhere; it was also long-listed for the Edge Hill prize.

Parthian later published his first poetry collection, Miners At The Quarry Pool, described by Patricia McCarthy, editor of Agenda, as ‘a virtuoso performance’.

A second story collection titled Who Killed Emil Kreisler? was published in 2016 by Cultured Llama, and GG Books brought out his first novel, Slowly Burning, the same year. In 2019, Templar published his short-fiction pamphlet, A Gloucester Trilogy. In 2022, Saron Publishers brought out his novel-cum-fictional memoir, Notes From the Superhorse Stable, and last year Cockatrice Books published his fourth story collection, Five Go to Switzerland and his second poetry collection, Gwyriad.

In October this year, Cockatrice published his Never Lost for Words: Selected Essays.’ All these publishers, bar the Medway-based Cultured Llama, are Welsh independents.
In August 2022, Jarrett was Author of the Month for the National Library of Wales’s digital libraries project. He is a regular contributor to Arts Scene in Wales, Jazz Journal (for which he also writes a column called Count Me In), Acumen poetry magazine, Nation Cymru and others, and for thirty years was chief music critic of the South Wales Argus in succession to Kenneth Loveland. Before it folded, he was a leading contributor on music and belle-lettres to the Wales Arts Review. He is included in the Library of Wales’s two-volume anthology of 20th- and 21st-century Welsh short fiction.

In November 2024, Parthian re-printed Miners At The Quarry Pool, an event he was asked to mark with an article in Nation Cymru. In the same month he took part in an al fresco ‘Poetry under the Clocktower’ event with other leading Welsh writers at the Hay Winter Festival.

Nigel Jarrett lives in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire.