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 […]
Taylor Walle
Taylor Walle is a writer whose work explores the dark, the strange, and the surreal. A former English professor, she draws heavily on 18th- and 19th-century British fiction in her own writing, especially the Gothic. She is also the author of an occasional newsletter called Night Hag. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia […]