Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. During her time at Cove Park she’ll be working on her forth novel about Grangemouth Petro-Chemical plant and imagining a world post Petro-culture, forthcoming with Hodder and Stoughton and supported by the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship.
Kylie Moppert (she/her) returned to creative writing in 2020 after over 30 years of busyness. She blends memory with fiction to explore uncomfortable truths of life, friendship, love and family. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including Sparx, the annual publication of the Society of Women Writers Victoria, Island Magazine (online) and Bowen Street Press. […]
Emily Frisella is a writer from the Pacific Northwest, now based in London and currently at work on her first novel. She was shortlisted for the 2017/2018 New Poets’ Prize and her essays have previously appeared in The Rumpus and The Adroit Journal. She also writes a Substack newsletter, ‘Stories I Tell Myself’.
Sharanya is a writer from and currently in New Delhi, India. She is also an editor at Vittles Magazine. Her work has been published in Orion, Eater, Vittles, The Audacity, Popula, Atlas Obscura, Wasafiri, Longreads, Roads and Kingdoms, FiftyTwo, The Believer and The Baffler among others. In October 2020, she won the Wasafiri new writing […]
Sarah Ward is a fiction writer and an education academic who uses creative methods in research. She has published short stories in New Writing Scotland 38 (2020), the middle of a sentence (2020) and Words about Whiteinch (2010). She won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize for her novel Resurrection, Port Glasgow in 2017 and was […]
Elisabeth Reidy Denison is a writer and editor from Massachusetts. Her work has appeared in Prelude, RHINO, The Tangerine, and Thrush, among other places, and her fiction and poetry have twice been shortlisted for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London, where her […]
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast […]
Catherine Simpson is the author of one novel and two memoirs. Her third memoir Hold Fast: Motherhood, My Autistic Daughter and Me is due for publication later in 2025. Her first memoir When I Had a Little Sister: The Story of a Farming Family Who Never Spoke, was described as: ‘Superb’ (Sunday Times) ‘Riveting’ (The […]
Dan Zell is a designer and writer based in Norwich, currently enrolled in the Creative Writing MA at UEA. His fiction delves into themes of identity, belonging, and solitude, exploring how these experiences are constructed through uniform, ritual, and inherited symbols, and how collective experiences and materiality shape personal narratives. Dan is the founder of The […]
Laura Haynes is a writer, editor and academic based in Glasgow. She was co-director of MAP magazine (2012-2024) and at The Glasgow School of Art is leader of the studio-based interdisciplinary Master of Letters Art Writing postgraduate programme, where she also edits The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing. Laura’s writing and research is concerned with […]
Yi-An Hsieh was born in Lukang, Taiwan, in 1992. She holds a Master’s degree in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and is a member of the Taipei Legend Studio, which is dedicated to researching and promoting local legends of monsters and mysterious happenings. Yi-An Hsieh is the author of the non-fiction titles Taiwanese School […]
Katherine Buchanan is an Australian poet, children’s writer and artist. Her work is inspired by the landscape and environment, as well as global environmental issues.Katherine’s first collection, ‘Leylines’, was published in 2019 by Ginninderra Press. Her second collection, ‘Sanctuary’, was completed during her writers’ residency at Varuna: The Writers House in Katoomba, NSW. Katherine completed […]