David Mann

David Mann is an award-winning writer, editor and art critic from Johannesburg, South Africa.

He was edited and written for numerous art publications including the ARAK Journal, Creative Feel and Cue, the official publication of the National Arts Festival. He currently works as the writer for the arts incubator, The Centre for the Less Good Idea and is a co-founder of the Johannesburg-based arts writing collective, Writers’ Block. 

His short stories have been published in various local and international journals including Strange Matters (USA), Portside Review (AU), Imbiza Journal (SA) and many more. His debut collection of short fiction, Once Removed,was published in 2024 by Botsotso, and won the Thomas Pringle Short Story Prize, and was shortlisted for the NHISS Award and Nadine Gordimer Award for best short story collection.