Catrin Kemp
Catrin Kemp (she/her) is an emerging writer and award-winning creative producer. Her writing intersects matrescence, identity, grief and midlife, aiming to give voice to modern-day interior experiences seen through a darkly comic female lens. Her short fiction and poetry have been published by Speculative Books and Motherlore Magazine and she regularly performs her work to […]
Dan Zell
Dan Zell writes playful, poignant fiction about identity – the version we perform, the version we hide, and the distance between them. His influences include Nora Ephron, Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and William Boyd. His debut novel, Resolutions, begins on New Year’s Eve 2025, when Nadia throws a fancy-dress dinner party for her single friends. […]
Julie Kennedy
Julie Kennedy is a writer and teacher. She writes poetry and fiction. Her poems have been published in poetry magazines including Propel. Poetry Society Newsletter and Causeway Cabhsair. Her work was been commended in the Poetry Society Stanza Competition and the Ledbury Poetry Competition. During this residency, Julie will continue to work on her second […]
Anne-Marie Te Whiu
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 […]
Rachael King
Rachael King is a writer, reviewer, former literary festival director and ex-bass player from Aotearoa New Zealand. Secrets at Red Rocks won the Esther Glen Medal in 2013 and in 2025 was adapted into an Emmy award-winning television series. The Grimmelings, published in the UK by Guppy Books in 2024, was longlisted for the UKLA […]
Loch Long Crime Writing Residency 2026-2027
Joanne Derrick
Joanne Derrick is a Wiltshire-based writer and creative writing facilitator. She teaches courses in creative writing and wellbeing at HMP Erlestoke, a category C men’s prison, as well as running groups in the community. She recently organised an exhibition of prisoner writing at Devizes Arts Festival 2026 with charity Friends of Erlestoke Prison. Joanne invited […]
Vincenzo Latronico
Vincenzo Latronico is an Italian writer and translator. His fourth novel, Perfection, has been translated into over 30 languages and was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. He lives in Milan.
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 […]
Merrie Snell
Merrie Snell is an American-born writer, artist, and academic based in Northumberland, UK. Her fiction and poetry appear in numerous literary magazines and anthologies in the US and UK, including The Bridport Prize Anthology 2025, Anthropocene, New England Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, AGNI, Cimarron Review, among others. Her work has also been shortlisted for various […]
Niamh Gordon
Niamh Gordon is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher from Manchester, based in Glasgow. She has an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and is in the final year of a PhD in Creative Writing and Narrative Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her research is funded by the AHRC and explores […]
Sophie Gee
Our partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival continues this year with a pre-Festival residency for Sophie Gee. Sophie Gee is Professor of English at Princeton University, and co-host of the Secret Life of Books, a much-loved and internationally acclaimed podcast about classic literature. Sophie’s most recent book is The Barbarous Feast: Eating and Writing in […]