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 […]
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 […]