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Nabin Chhetri
Nabin K. Chhetri is a Scotland-based poet and writer with an MSt in Creative Writing from Oxford University and an MLitt in The Novel from the University of Aberdeen. He has led workshops and readings at Oxford and Robert Gordon University, and as an author on Scottish Book Trust's Author Directory, delivers creative sessions for schools and diverse audiences across Scotland.
He won The Book Edit’s Writer’s Prize 2025 and the Reedsy Scholarship, and received a 2025 work-in-progress grant from the Society of Authors. His novel-in-progress, The Red Moon Trails, was shortlisted for the Jessie Kesson Fellowship 2023. An extract of his fiction was selected by Creative Scotland in collaboration with the Association of Scottish Literary Agents (ASLA) and placed in the top 7% of the Bridport Prize. He has also been shortlisted for Bloomsbury’s Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize and the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia, listed in the top 100 of the Ascent Novel Prize 2025, and longlisted for the Paul McVeigh Residency.
He was commissioned by the StAnza festival. He is the director of Mist and Mountain (UK) and has a forthcoming poetry collection with Black Spring Press(UK), following a previous publication with Red Mountain Press(US).