Alexia Wdowski
Alexia Wdowski has an MA in Creative Writing and writes about outsiders, risk-takers, wilderness, and the surreal qualities of daily life. She is interested in the links between writing, creativity and wellbeing, and works as a manager in an indie bookshop in a small town by the sea. She writes articles, flash, and short stories […]
Ryan O'Connor
Ryan O’Connor received the Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Award in 2018; later the same year he was Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize short story category. His debut novel, The Voids, was published by Scribe in 2022. Shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards, it has received widespread critical acclaim. In the Guardian, Benjamin Myers […]
Hanna Thomas Uose
Hanna is a British-Japanese writer based in London. She has just completed the MA in Prose Fiction at UEA and her debut novel Who Wants to Live Forever will be published in Spring 2025 (Brazen Books / Hachette). In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, was longlisted for the Space […]
Kari Shemwell
Kari Shemwell was born and raised in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She received her undergraduate degrees from Murray State University and an MFA degree from Sierra Nevada College with a concentration in fiction. She worked in the film industry for 8 years, and she is currently writing a novel about power dynamics in Hollywood. She is also […]
Amanda Wenger
Amanda Wenger (she/her) is a Houston-based writer and performer with a background in critical care nursing. She has designed and facilitated writing workshops for health professionals as an artist in residence for the Medical Humanities program at Texas Children’s Hospital and is the recipient of an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant to finish a first young […]
Elmira Elvazova
Elmira Elvazova is a poet living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets & Writers. Her writing has appeared in Bennington Review, Paperbark Literary Magazine, Big Lucks, Big Big Wednesday, The Massachusetts Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry chapbook, I Could Go On Like […]
Zita Abila
Zita Abila is a British-Nigerian writer and artist, raised in the Netherlands and across England, from Manchester to Lincolnshire. She has a Masters in Literature and Culture from the University of Birmingham, where she cultivated her interest in forgotten cities and ancient lore. This year, she graduated from the HarperCollins Author Academy (Spring 2023), and […]
Nicola Russell
Nicola Russell is taking a year out of the corporate world of talent management (HR) to spend time writing. She comes to Cove Park to work on a memoir about family secrets, identity, and the discovery of her biological father, who was a prominent gay rights activist in New York in the 1960s and 70s. […]
Laura Muetzelfeldt
Laura Muetzelfeldt is a writer from Glasgow who has been published nationally and internationally in journals such as The International Literary Quarterly and New Writing Scotland. After completing an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, she worked as an English Teacher in Paisley for seven years. Laura has just completed a PhD […]
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer and translator, and was born in Palampur, India. She studied at St. Bede’s College, Shimla; Trinity College, Dublin; and Queen’s University, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German, Italian; and have appeared in Ambit, Bad Lilies, Banshee, bath magg, Cyphers, Gutter, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry […]
Clementine Burnley
Born in Cameroon, Clementine Burnley now lives and works between the U.K. and Germany. She has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from Manchester University and is a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy – RSPOP, studying large group facilitation and conflict mediation. Her poems have been published in Ink, Sweat […]
AV
AV (Adam Vaughn) 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 also placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition. AV is set to finish […]