Jessica Barnfield
Jessica Barnfield is a fiction writer based in Edinburgh. Her debut novel was Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize Novel Award in 2022, and she has since been shortlisted and longlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her short story ‘Subsidence’ was runner-up in the 2025 Harper’s Bazaar Short […]
Caleb Tankersley
Caleb Tankersley is the author of Sin Eaters—winner of the Permafrost Book Prize—and Jesus Works the Night Shift. More of his writing can be found in Carve, The Cimarron Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, and other magazines. He is an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota and serves as […]
Alexandra Compton
Alexandra Compton is a Scottish writer, artist, and PhD Researcher at the University of Glasgow, whose work explores working-class life, place, and community. Her debut poetry pamphlet, A Thousand Binding Moments, was published in 2022, and her writing has also appeared in BWQ, From Glasgow to Saturn, The Poetry Experiment Anthology and is forthcoming in […]
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 […]
Maeva Totolehibe
In partnership with Wysing Arts Centre, we are pleased to host the artist and poet Maeva Totolehibe. Based in France, Maeve is Wysing’s 2026 Magnetic Resident, spending eight weeks in the UK in 2026 as part of Fluxus Art Project’s Franco-UK residency exchange programme. Time in Scotland will enable Maeve to continue her research. Maeva […]
Carina NicHaouchine
Carina NicHaouchine is an award-winning Scottish-Algerian filmmaker and writer focused on creative documentary. Her work often explores identity and family as she creates to understand the things that confuse or bring discomfort. Her first short documentary, Ululation, made through Scottish Documentary Institute (SDI), screened internationally and won a John Byrne Award. She is currently in […]
Hormi
Hormi Chen is the author of the novel Lake Bone, the novella Family in Water, and co-author of 100 Keywords in Literature. Hormi has received the China Times Literary Award, Taipei Literature Award, Jianzhen Environmental Literature Award, New Taipei City Literature Award, Zhong Zhao Zheng Literature Award, and Tainan Literature Award, as well as creative grants […]
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Sumayya Usmani
Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani author living in Glasgow. She is a Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Awardee (2021) and the award winning author of two cookbooks, ‘Summers Under the Tamarind Tree’ (2016, Quarto Books) and ‘Mountain Berries and Desert Spice’ (2017, Quarto Books) and one memoir, ‘Andaza: A memoir of food, flavour and finding […]
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Parel Joy
Parel Joy is a poet, literary translator and zine maker based in Amsterdam, working in the Netherlands and Scotland. Her pamphlet The Queen of Cups and Other Poems was published by SPAM in 2022 and she runs DykeHouse Press, which has published 3 zines of queer poetics so far. Parel has translated writing by Bryan […]
Janis MacKay
Janis Mackay is an award-winning author, winning the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2013 with her novel The Accidental Time Traveller. With eleven books for children she has recently made the shift into writing for adults. Her first published novel, which came out in 2025, is On a Northern Shore, by Luath Press. It is described […]