Catrin Kemp & Chitra Ramaswamy
The New Mothers’ Writing Circle is a radical and unique project which centres the experience of the mother and her transformation in motherhood. Set up at the start of 2020, each 8-week programme nurtures small cohorts of 10 – 15 mothers, drawing on diverse narratives of motherhood from Rachel Cusk to Toni Morrison to empower […]
Caro Carver
The recipient of Cove Park’s first Loch Long Crime Writing Residency is Caro Carver. This new fully funded residency is aimed at Scotland-based writers developing new work in crime fiction. Caro Carver lives in Inverclyde, Scotland with her husband and four children. She is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, teaches for […]
Joanne Stubbs
Joanne Stubbs lives and works in the Bristol area. She grew up in Staffordshire and studied biochemistry at Wadham College, Oxford. Her debut novel, The Fish, was published in 2022 by Fairlight Books. A piece of climate fiction, it tells the story of a world not unlike our own, but where environmental changes have caused […]
Scarlett Sangster
Scarlett Sangster is an author and short story writer from Somerset, UK. She’s written two fiction novels which have placed in a number of literary competitions, including the Adventures In Fiction Spotlight First Novel Award and the Page 100 Prize. Her latest novel, set in 1970s Dorset, explores the impact of childhood grief on developing […]
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 In 2022, she won the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour, was longlisted for the Space […]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. […]