A unique residency in rural Scotland for national
and international artists, creative practitioners,
researchers, writers, and our local community.
A unique residency in rural Scotland for national
and international artists, creative practitioners,
researchers, writers, and our local community.
A snapshot of this season’s residencies. Visit the Residencies page for information on our Awarded and Open programmes and how to take part.
We are delighted to announce that the recipient of the 2026 Varuna – Cove Park International Fellowship is Anne-Marie Te Whiu. Anne-Marie Te Whiu (Te Rarawa) is a poet, editor, cultural producer, and weaver based on unceded Gadigal lands in Australia. As an Australian-born-Māori, she is dedicated to platforming the creative output of Indigenous peoples […]
Through a new partnership with deAuteurs, a Belgian authors’ rights management organisation that represents authors of performing arts, audio-visual, literary, and visual works, we are pleased to announce two-week residencies supporting artists developing new work in performance. Céline Timmerman (1990) is a Belgian theatre maker, actress and screenwriter. Her artistic work moves between visual art […]
David Osbaldeston is a British artist who works across properties of collage, painting and fine print to produce a material outcome best termed collectively as ‘flat sculpture’. His work is often made to interfere with relationships between images and the poetic variables associated with language used to describe them. This is done through a thematic […]
Taylor Dyson is an award winning performer and writer from Dundee. She awas the National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever 2025-2026. She co-runs award winning, Elfie Picket Theatre staging new work across Scotland, including at A Play, A Pie and A Pint. She also recently won Scottish Book Trust’s New Writer’s Award for Spoken Word. […]
Lela Kurtanidze is an author, social worker, and civil activist in Georgia. Her debut poetry collection, “Melatonin” (Intelekti Publishing, 2021), was shortlisted for the Saba, Georgia’s most prestigious literary award, in 2022. Her poems have been featured in the German-language Anthology “Säe den Weizen, Ukraine” ( eds. Bela Chekurishvili and Sabine Schiffner, Klak Verlag, 2022) […]
Based on a 50-acre site overlooking Loch Long on Scotland’s west coast, Cove Park is embedded in its rural and coastal location. Visit the About page for more on the site, our local community, and our commitment to the conservation of Argyll & Bute's rich natural heritage.
This residency is for a writer of international renown who comes to Cove Park for up to four weeks. During their stay the resident is the guest of honour at events in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and also has time at Cove Park to work on their own projects. During her residency Anne Carson will be […]
Our partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival continues this year with a post-Festival residency for Charlotte Wood. Charlotte is the Australian author of seven novels and three books of non-fiction. Her new book Stone Yard Devotional was described by the Guardian as ‘a quiet novel of immense power’ and has been praised by authors Anne Enright, Tim Winton, Karen Joy […]
Mohamed Tonsy is an Egyptian writer, ceramicist and bookseller at Lighthouse Bookshop. Formerly an architect and triathlete representing the Egyptian Triathlon Federation, Tonsy completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Their writing has appeared in Mizna, Epoch Press, won a Quarterly John Byrne Award and was Shortlisted for MFest’s 2021 Short […]
Michael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, and Edinburgh’s Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at Scotland’s National Book Awards. The Cat Prince […]