Autumn Writers Week
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 […]
Muinntireas do Sgrìobhaiche Gàidhlig Òg – Young Gaelic Writer Residency 2025
Nasim Luczaj
Nasim Luczaj is a poet and Polish–English translator based between London, Glasgow and the Polish Carpathians. She is the author of HIND MOUTH (Earthbound Press), and her pamphlet responding to Georgia O’Keeffe’s letters to her husband will be out in late 2025 as part of Oblique House’s Diptych series. Her poems have appeared or are […]
Harry Josephine Giles
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith. She has lived on four islands, each larger than the last. She has a MA in Theatre Directing from East 15 Acting School and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. Harry Josephine’s work generally happens in the […]
YM Abdel-Magied
YM Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese writer currently based in London. The author of five books, their debut literary novel At Sea is forthcoming with Canongate in 2026. The propulsive literary eco-thriller follows Zainab, an expert driller, as she navigates the male-dominated world of offshore drilling. Also forthcoming in 2026 is SILVERBROOK: Yumna and the Golden […]
Nadiyah Abdullatif
Nadiyah Abdullatif is a Mauritius-born, Scotland-based editor and translator working from Arabic, French, Mauritian Creole and Spanish into English. Her work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, carte blanche, Wasafiri, ArabLit Quarterly and The Markaz Review. Her co-translation with Anam Zafar of Lebanese graphic novel Yoghurt and Jam (Or How My Mother Became Lebanese) (Balestier […]
Grace Ndiritu
Grace Ndiritu is an established British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) visual artist, writer and filmmaker whose writing and artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world. Ndiritu is the winner of the Jarman Award in association with Film London (2022) and recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Visual Arts Award (2024). Her films and […]
Carol Rodrigues
Carol Rodrigues is a Brazilian writer based in São Paulo. Her short-story collection Sem Vista Para o Mar (Edith, 2014) won both main prizes for the category in Brazil: Jabuti and Biblioteca Nacional. She has also published two novels: A Mulher do Padre (Todavia, 2023) and O Melindre dos Dentes da Besta (7Letras, 2019). She […]
Mohamed Tonsy
Mohamed Tonsy is an Egyptian writer, ceramicist and bookseller at Lighthouse Bookshop. Formerly an architect and triathlete representing the Egyptian Triathlon Federation, Tonsy completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Their writing has appeared in Mizna, Epoch Press, won a Quarterly John Byrne Award and was Shortlisted for MFest’s 2021 Short […]
Rachelle Atalla
Rachelle Atalla is a Scottish-Egyptian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter based in Glasgow. During her time at Cove Park she’ll be working on her forth novel about Grangemouth Petro-Chemical plant and imagining a world post Petro-culture, forthcoming with Hodder and Stoughton and supported by the Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship.
Kylie Moppert
Kylie Moppert (she/her) returned to creative writing in 2020 after over 30 years of busyness. She blends memory with fiction to explore uncomfortable truths of life, friendship, love and family. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including Sparx, the annual publication of the Society of Women Writers Victoria, Island Magazine (online) and Bowen Street Press. […]