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 […]
Eleanor Tennyson
Eleanor Tennyson is a writer from London. In 2024, she was awarded the Sheila Templeton Memorial Award for Poetry. She is the author of The Hairy Manifesto and two chapbooks: The Submissive with Drunk Muse Press and Half-Life with If a Leaf Falls Press.
Fiona Linday
Fiona Linday is a writer of literature for young readers and creative writing facilitator based in the East Midlands. Her publications include Get Over It, Adventures, Onwards and Upwards. Her short story, Love in Spiritual Awakenings, won the Unique Writing Publications Story Award and was published in The Heavenly Road Trip with Help for Writers, […]
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 […]