Durre Mughal

(she/her)

AFHEA

Biography

As well as an academic, I'm a writer, and the Editor of Gathering, an essay anthology on nature, climate, the landscape by women of colour (forthcoming 2024 with 404 Ink). In the past, I have been a Wasafiri Magazine Writer-in-Residence. In 2022, I was granted a Future Wales Fellowship, and undertook a year of creative research around climate change with Arts Council Wales and Natural Resources Wales.

My work overlaps the boundaries between non-fiction, essay, autofiction, short story, and has been published widely, most prominently: Wasafiri, Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class (Dead Ink Books), We Shall Fight Until We Win (404 Ink), Welsh (Plural) (Repeater Books), Homes for Heroes 100: Council Estate Memories (Bristol Festival of Ideas), Artes Mundi, Sister-hood Magazine, Visual Verse. My short play 'On My Terms' was performed at Edinburgh Fringe.

Established in 2017, I founded ‘Where I’m Coming From’, the first open mic collective for writers of colour in Wales. In the past, I have been a part of Literature Wales’ Writer Development Scheme, Hay Festival Writers at Work, BBC Writersroom Wales Development Programme, an Artist in Residence at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, and a Located Residency Artist with National Theatre Wales.

I'm currently working on my debut book arising from my PhD research, a sample of which was shortlisted and highly commended for the Morley Lit Prize 2022.

Professional memberships

Society of Authors

Speaking engagements

Past events have included giving talks at or in collaboration with: Ledbury Poetry Critics Scheme, Queen Mary University, Bradford Literature Festival, Liverpool Literary Festival, Hay Festival, Gentle Radical, Bristol Festival of Future City, International Women's Day at Wales Millennium Centre, BBC Asian Network, Green Man Festival, Migration Matters Festival, CILIP Cymru Conference Keynote Speech, Redah.de Gallery Berlin, The Word Factory events at Waterstones Piccadilly.