Spotlight on 25: Vincenzo Latronico
Jess Worsdale
Jess Worsdale is a writer living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She holds an MA in Prose Fiction from UEA. In 2024 her novel-in-progress, speculative fiction exploring the capitalisation of mental health and climate anxiety, was longlisted for the Discoveries Prize, shortlisted for the Bath Novel Award, and was a finalist in the Mslexia Novel Competition. […]
Kirsty Crawford
Kirsty Crawford lives in Glasgow. She writes fiction and non-fiction. Her writing has appeared in Porridge Magazine, the Glasgow Guardian and Aurelia Magazine among others. She has been awarded residencies from Joya Arte & Ecologíca and Cove Park and her work explores identity in relation to place, memory, and the body. While at Cove Park, she will continue working on her first novel.
Meghan Flaherty
Meghan Flaherty is the author of Tango Lessons (2018, Mariner) and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She writes lyrical and hybrid nonfiction and fiction. Her essays and reviews have appeared in VQR, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Iowa Review, Psychology Today, Parents, and online at the New York Times, The […]
Lucy Ribchester
Lucy Ribchester is a novelist and short story writer based in Edinburgh. Her first novel, The Hourglass Factory, was a thriller set during the suffragette movement, and was longlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown and selected by Waterstones’ Edinburgh branches as their Book of the Year. Her second novel, The Amber Shadows mixed […]
Polly Barton
Polly Barton is a Japanese translator and writer. Her translations include Where the Wild Ladies Are and The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda, Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura, and Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai. Her translation of Asako Yuzuki’s Butter was named Waterstones Book of […]
Cameron Wilson
Cameron Wilson is a Glaswegian poet, artist, editor, and birdwatcher writing in Scottish Gaelic, Scots and English. His publications include the sold-out 2023 poetry pamphlet I Wish Scotland was Real, an exploration of Scottishness through the lenses of conspiracy, neurosis, and language. This was followed up by Mull Poems, an appendix to the collection written […]
Claire Wilson
Claire Wilson is a crime writer from central Scotland. Her debut novel, Five by Five, won the inaugural Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writer Prize and was released in August 2024. The novel has since been shortlisted for the Specsavers CrimeFest debut, the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and the Bloody Scotland debut prize. Five by Five […]
Barbara Pauline Claes
Barbara Claes is a theatre maker, writer, and performer. Writing and musicality are essential elements of her artistic practice. Her work is not confined to traditional theatre spaces—she actively seeks out collaborations in broader social contexts, often working with people in psychiatric care and other vulnerable communities. Over the years, Claes has created several notable […]
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 […]