NAARCA Commission: Gaelic writer Mairi Macleod
Anne Fleming
Anne Fleming is a Canadian fiction writer, poet, and children’s author whose writing has been shortlisted for Canada’s Governor-General’s Award, the Journey Prize, and four BC Book Prizes. The Goat was named one of the ten best children’s books of the year by The Wall Street Journal and the New York Public Library. She teaches […]
Sean Wai Keung
Sean Wai Keung is a Glasgow-based poet, interdisciplinary and community artist. His work often uses food as a starting point for explorations of identity, migration, community and hospitality, and he enjoys challenging dominant notions of economics and exchange through participatory meal events. Sean was in residence at Cove Park in 2021 as part of the […]
Amber Lee Dodd
Amber Lee Dodd is an award-winning children’s author and short-story writer. Her work includes the critically acclaimed novels We Are Giants, Lightning Chase Me Home and The Thirteenth Home of Noah Bradley. Her debut novel, We Are Giants, was nominated for over ten awards, winning the Calderdale Book of the Year award and shortlisting for the prestigious Branford Boase […]
Farah Abdessamad
Farah Abdessamad is a French-Tunisian writer, critic, and essayist. Based in New York City since 2020, she has previously contributed to The Atlantic, The Nation, Observer, The TLS, Middle East Eye, The New Arab, and other venues on articles discussing art, heritage, and culture. She’s at work on long-form non-fiction projects.
Maura Bedloe
Maura Bedloe is a writer based in Tasmania, Australia. She is coming to Cove Park on an independently funded residency to develop a new work that blends memoir, fiction, and historical record. Maura’s work reflects her fascination with absence and presence, intergenerational connection to place, and the way people, particularly children, compose their own truths […]
Julie Kennedy
Julie Kennedy is a writer and teacher, highly commended in the recent 2022 Ledbury Poetry Competition. During her residency at Cove park, she hopes to finishing the final edit of an e-book of her first novel. She received a Scottish Government funded Scottish Publication Award in 2022 for this e-book project.
Jeanine Leane
Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her poetry, short stories, critique, and essays have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. Jeanine has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness […]
Fiona Linday
After supporting in schools, Fiona wrote for young adults: Get Over It, Adventures, Onwards and Upwards. Before came her prize-winning short story, ‘Off the Beaten Track.’ She won the Unique Writing Publications Story Award with Love in Spiritual Awakenings. Published in an eBook anthology of short stories, The Heavenly Road Trip with Help For Writers, […]
Justin Armstrong
Justin Armstrong is a Canadian cultural anthropologist and writer based in Boston, USA. His work explores the intersections of sound, landscape, and everyday life. He has written numerous articles and books on his research in the remote island communities of the North Atlantic, including Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Newfoundland. He teaches writing and anthropology […]
Leah Jun Oh
Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called ‘Migration and Racialisation: The Psyche and the Social’. As writers and academics who work in the field of medical humanities, the retreat brings together artists, writers and psychotherapists to explore […]
Rachel Long
Dr Hannah Proctor and Dr Akshi Singh have been awarded funding from the British Academy for a writing retreat as part of a project called ‘Migration and Racialisation: The Psyche and the Social’. As writers and academics who work in the field of medical humanities, the retreat brings together artists, writers and psychotherapists to explore […]