Paul Maddern
Paul Maddern was born in Bermuda and lives in Ireland. He has four publications with Templar Poetry, the latest being The Tipping Line (2018), and he edited Queering the Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat Press 2018). He is the recipient of several ACNI awards and three Bermuda Government Literary Awards. He was Teaching Fellow […]
Adam Vaughn
Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking a Creative […]
Darcie Springall
Darcie Springall is a poet, writer, journalist, and editor based in Edinburgh. She writes poetry that explores love, loss, and transformation, capturing the tension between yearning, acceptance, and deliverance. Her work gives voice to hidden emotions, celebrates lived experiences, and chronicles compassion, reverence, and awe within the human journey. An award-winning amateur photographer (2025 European […]
Chloe Ling
Chloe Ling is a Cantonese-American writer and poet based in New York City. Shaped by a surrealist sensibility, her work explores the range of life, love, and loss, capturing both childlike wonder and the right of all to dream. Chloe holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California (2020) and a Master […]
CD Boyland
CD Boyland [he/him] is a Glasgow-based poet, visual poet and editor. His debut full-length collection ‘Mephistopheles’ (Blue Diode, 2023) was nominated for a Scottish National Book Award. His pamphlets are ‘User Stories’ (Stewed Rhubarb, 2020) and ‘Vessel’ (Red Squirrel, 2022). He has published two collections of visual poetry; ‘Smc_’ (Steel Incisors, 2020) and ‘Ptchdk_’ (Trickhouse, […]
Titana Muthui
Titana Muthui is an actor and writer who writes with urgency, clarity, and conviction. A Black woman and recovering alcoholic, she creates work that is inseparable from her lived experience. Storytelling has always been her way of surviving the world, but sobriety sharpened her understanding of just how much representation matters—not only for visibility, but […]
Carole McAuley and Hunter McAuley
Carole McAauley is a Helensburgh-based writer and artist, winner of the LiveArgyll FlashFiction500 (April 2025) and multiple-time runner-up (2024–25). She contributes monthly to Bothy Blether at Jean’s Bothy and exhibited her artwork at Helensburgh Library in 2022. Hunter McAauley is an award-winning writer whose fiction has been recognised by the Scottish Book Trust (Winner, 50 […]
Elle Nash
Elle Nash is the author of the novels Deliver Me (Unnamed Press, 2023 and Verve Books, 2024), Gag Reflex (Clash Books, 2022), and Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books, 2018 and 404 Ink, 2019), which was featured in the 2018 June Reading Room of O – The Oprah Magazine and hailed by Publishers Weekly as a ‘complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire’ and the short […]
Loch Long Crime Writing Residency
Michael Donkor
Michael Donkor studied English at Wadham College, Oxford and then undertook a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, London. The Observer named him as one of 2018’s best debut authors for his first novel Hold (4th Estate) and in 2019, he was longlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and shortlisted for the Desmond […]
Autumn Writers Week
Adam Vaughn
Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking a Creative […]