Robert Rae
Robert Rae is a theatre and film director and writer. He chooses to develop work through socially engaged practice that aligns with his own political and activist commitments. His expertise has taken him all over the world sharing and developing his methodology. His career spans over 30 years, beginning as Producer for 7:84 England and […]
Kaljeven Singh Lally
Kaljeven Singh Lally is a writer and director based in Glasgow. As a writer, he focuses on stories specific to his voice and lived experiences as a Sikh person raised in Scotland; combined with his love of cinema. As a writer he has a feature film, Five Thieves, in early development with Screen Scotland/Short Circuit. […]
Hannah Lavery
Hannah Lavery is a poet and playwright from Edinburgh. Her debut poetry collection Blood Salt Spring (Polygon) was nominated for a Saltire Prize in 2022, her second collection Unwritten Woman was published by Polygon in August 2024. Hannah is the former Makar (poet laureate) for the City of Edinburgh, co-host of feminist arts podcast QuineCast […]
Jackie Taylor
Jackie Taylor is a Cornwall-based writer of short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and hybrid forms. She is interested in our contested rural edgelands, ageing and care, and approaches to writing climate crisis. Her work has appeared in Mslexia, Inkfish, Spelt, and other journals and anthologies. Her collection of interlinked short stories, Strange Waters, was published […]
Tracy Fahey
Tracy Fahey is the Irish author of six books and the 2024 winner of The Paul Cave Prize For Literature. She has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017, 2022, and 2024. Fahey has been shortlisted for the London Independent Story Prize (2024) and the Leicester Short Story Prize (2021). She was granted a […]
Meghan Flaherty
Meghan Flaherty is the author of Tango Lessons (2018, Mariner). She writes lyrical and hybrid nonfiction and fiction. Her essays and reviews have appeared in VQR, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Iowa Review, Psychology Today, Parents, and online at the New York Times, The Paris Review, Slate, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere. Her essay “Ode to Gray” was named notable in 2019’s Best American Essays, […]
Winter Writers Residency with Hannah Lavery
Elizabeth Gold
Elizabeth Gold is the author of the memoir, Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity, published by Tarcher/Penguin USA. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Field, Willow Springs, Post Road, Meridian, Guernica and other journals. A native New Yorker, she now lives in Bristol, U.K. She will be working on a novel while […]
Lisette Auton
Lisette Auton is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, predominantly making work as a writer, performer and film and theatre maker. Her focus is on process, creative access and place: creating stories that reflect her northern, disabled and neurodivergent experiences. She is a children’s author published by Puffin: The Secret Of Haven Point (2022); The Stickleback Catchers […]
Emma Musty
Emma Musty is a writer who grew up in the wild beauty of Dumfries and Galloway but these days finds herself most often in the city of Athens, Greece. It was while on a residency at Cove Park that she first heard from Lauren Parsons of Legend Press who would go on to become her […]
Book Launch – Carrion Crow by Heather Parry
Adam Vaughn
Adam Vaughn (AV) 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 placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking a Creative […]