This residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise.

Rebecca Raeburn is an Edinburgh-based writer and reviewer. She is a graduate of the MSc in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her work has been published in several magazines, most recently 404 Ink and the Scottish Review of Books. Rebecca was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship, and the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writers Awards in 2016, and has performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.