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. […]
NAARCA Commission: Sámi writer Hanna Guttorm
Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright. She was appointed Edinburgh Makar (or city poet) in November 2021 for a three year term. She was also selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future for the International Literature Showcase, a project from the National Writing […]
Sarah Krasnostein
We are delighted to partner with Edinburgh International Book Festival to host Australian writer Sarah Krasnostein in August. Sarah Krasnostein is a multi-award winning writer and critic. She is the best-selling author of The Trauma Cleaner (2017),The Believer(2021), the Quarterly Essay,Not Waving, Drowning(2022) andOn Peter Carey(2023). She holds aPhD in criminal law and is admitted to legal practice […]
Sophie Cunningham
We are delighted to partner with Edinburgh International Book Festival to host Australian writer Sophie Cunningham in August. Sophie Cunningham is a non-fiction writer and novelist with a passion for trees, walking and broader environmental issues. She will be a guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival talking about her novel This Devastating Fever, and […]
Fine Mayer
Now in its second year, the Young Gaelic Writer Residency is the result of a partnership between Cove Park and Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council. It supports a Gaelic writer based in Scotland, aged under 30, and provides the time and funding required to develop current projects. A-nis san dàrna bliadhna, tha […]
Abbie Plant
Abbie. L. Plant is a writer and poet based in Yorkshire, where she is currently writing her debut poetry collection ‘lucid dreams, meanderings and the contemplation of nothing’ and studying as an undergraduate at the University of Leeds. Her recent poem ‘Pheromones’ was displayed at the LEEDS YEAR OF CULTURE 2023 ‘More Than Just Talking’ […]
Sean Negus
Sean Negus is an artist who works in the expanded field of poetics. In addition to a book of poems published bilingually in Portuguese and English, Hurricane Music, he has also published an artist book in limited edition, Congeries. An ongoing project inquiring into a visual poetics of the archive continues to explore intersections of […]