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 […]
Muinntireas do Sgrìobhaiche Gàidhlig Òg – Young Gaelic Writer Residency 2025
Nasim Luczaj
Nasim Luczaj is a poet and Polish–English translator based between London, Glasgow and the Polish Carpathians. She is the author of HIND MOUTH (Earthbound Press), and her pamphlet responding to Georgia O’Keeffe’s letters to her husband will be out in late 2025 as part of Oblique House’s Diptych series. Her poems have appeared or are […]
Harry Josephine Giles
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith. She has lived on four islands, each larger than the last. She has a MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Harry Josephine’s work generally happens in the […]
YM Abdel-Magied
YM Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese writer currently based in London. The author of five books, their debut literary novel At Sea is forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. The propulsive literary eco-thriller follows Zainab, an expert driller, as she navigates the male-dominated world of offshore drilling. Also forthcoming in 2026 is SILVERBROOK: Yumna and the Golden […]