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 […]
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 her scientific experience to explore how our perceptions are impacted by paradigm choice. During her time at Cove Park she will be working on her memoir “The Story of My […]
Alison Irvine
Alison Irvine lives in Glasgow and is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction. Her first novel This Road is Red (Luath 2011), based on the stories of residents and workers in Glasgow’s Red Road Flats, was shortlisted for the Saltire First Book of the Year award. Her second novel, Cat Step (Dead Ink 2020), […]
Kristina Marie Darling
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-nine books. An expert consultant with the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; nine residencies […]
Annette Weisser
Annette Weisser is a visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She is currently teaching at Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2006 to 2019 she lived in Los Angeles and taught at ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena. Recurrent themes in her work of recent years are historical trauma and collective identity construction. In her collaborative work with […]
Kim Sherwood
Kim Sherwood is an author and creative writing lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, where she lives in the city. Kim Sherwood’s first novel, Testament (2018), won the Bath Novel Award and Harper’s Bazaar Big Book Award. It was longlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize and shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Pick. […]