Brooke Robinson
Brooke Robinson is a playwright and novelist from Western Sydney. Her professionally produced plays include Bad Machine (Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2022) and Good Cook. Friendly. Clean (Griffin Theatre, 2018), both published by Currency Press. Her debut novel, The Interpreter, was published in 2023 with Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House in Australia, the UK and Commonwealth, and HarperCollins in the USA. It is […]
Caroline Jupp
Out-of-print books, cult novels and films are often the catalyst for Caroline Jupp’s DIY publishing projects. Documentary processes – conversation, observation, recording and collecting – are used to form publications. These texts are brought together to create new archives or libraries, such as her major participatory project, Library of Unwritten Books, inspired by Beat writer, […]
Niamh Gordon
Niamh Gordon (she/her) is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher. She has an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and Narrative Studies at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught courses on poetry and poetics, experimental writing, and writing the body. […]
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 […]
Anna Bambridge
Anna Bambridge is a writer based in Glasgow. Her work is about seeing and being seen. She has studied physics and vision and draws from these learnings to explore how our perceptions are impacted by paradigm choice. During her time at Cove Park she will be editing her book about her experiences living with a […]
Heather Parry
Heather Parry is a Glasgow-based author and editor. She is the editorial director of Extra Teeth magazine and co-created the Illustrated Freelancer’s Guide with artist Maria Stoian. She has published both fiction and nonfiction, and her next novel, Carrion Crow, will be released in Feb 2025.
NAARCA Commission: Swedish writer Anna-Maria Hällgren
Cove Park/Varuna Exchange Residency 2025 Award Announcement
Moria McPartlin
Moira McPartlin has been writing for over twenty-five years. Her debut novel The Incomers, published by Fledgling Press in 2012, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award. Over the next seven years Moira wrote her speculative fiction Sun Song Trilogy novels (also published by Fledgling Press). The novels, set in […]
Shao-Fei Hsu
The 2024 Taiwanese Writer Residency has been awarded to Shao-Fei Hsu. Shao-Fei published Diary of a Little Devil Nanny in 2018 and has translated several French works into Taiwanese. She writes novels set in Taiwan, France, and Kyoto. She is also engaged in research on British, American, and French sign language poetry. Shao-Fei is currently based in […]
Jj Fadaka
Jj Fadaka is a writer, facilitator and radical based in Edinburgh. Her writing explores the possibility abolition, feminism, and love give us to create change. Jj uses poetry to speak to the political urgencies we face whilst centering joy-making in building struggles against these. Jj’s workshops draw on black feminist radical traditions to create space […]
From Arthur's Seat
From Arthur’s Seat (FAS) is heading outside of Edinburgh for the first time in its seven years of existence. At Cove Park, thirteen students from the anthology will be given time and space to write outside of the busy city of Edinburgh, culminating in a reading from FAS. FAS is a yearly showcase collection of poetry […]