NAARCA Commission: Swedish writer Anna-Maria Hällgren
Cove Park/Varuna Exchange Residency 2025 Award Announcement
Moira McPartlin
Moira McPartlin has been writing for over twenty-five years. Her debut novel The Incomers, published by Fledgling Press in 2012, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society First Book of the Year Award. Over the next seven years Moira wrote her speculative fiction Sun Song Trilogy novels (also published by Fledgling Press). The novels, set in […]
Shao-Fei Hsu
The 2024 Taiwanese Writer Residency has been awarded to Shao-Fei Hsu. Shao-Fei published Diary of a Little Devil Nanny in 2018 and has translated several French works into Taiwanese. She writes novels set in Taiwan, France, and Kyoto. She is also engaged in research on British, American, and French sign language poetry. Shao-Fei is currently based in […]
Jj Fadaka
Jj Fadaka is a writer, facilitator and radical based in Edinburgh. Her writing explores the possibility abolition, feminism, and love give us to create change. Jj uses poetry to speak to the political urgencies we face whilst centering joy-making in building struggles against these. Jj’s workshops draw on black feminist radical traditions to create space […]
From Arthur's Seat
From Arthur’s Seat (FAS) is heading outside of Edinburgh for the first time in its seven years of existence. At Cove Park, thirteen students from the anthology will be given time and space to write outside of the busy city of Edinburgh, culminating in a reading from FAS. FAS is a yearly showcase collection of poetry […]
NAARCA Commission: Danish-Colombian writer Emmy Laura Pérez Fjalland
NAARCA Commission: Norwegian writer Zeshan Shakar
Sarah Trounce
Sarah Trounce grew up in East Anglia and studied English at Birmingham University, before moving to London. She worked as a manager in the design industry for ten years and is now a freelance consultant and writer, collaborating with creative people all over the world. Sarah was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize […]
Loretta Mulholland
Loretta is studying for a PhD in English at Dundee University. Using literary techniques and extracts from Bird’s work she is writing a series of creative non-fiction essays which explore themes such as landscape, solitariness, and creativity; truth, memory and marginal voices, and the literary value of the epistolatory form. Loretta has been published in […]
Emily Utter
Emily Utter is a Canadian writer who lives in Aberdeen. Her short stories and creative non-fiction have been widely published in magazines and journals, including Gutter, Northwest Review, Geist, and the best of Canadian flash fiction anthology, This Will Only Take a Minute. Emily has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Aberdeen […]
Alison Woodhouse
Alison Woodhouse is a writer, tutor and mentor based in the Southwest, currently in her first year of a funded PhD in Creative Writing, exploring polyphony. Her novella, The House on the Corner, (AdHoc Fiction, 2020) and her short fiction collection, Family Frames, (V Press,2021) explore familial relationships. She has a particular interest in family […]