May 2026 Associates News & Updates
Sumayya Usmani
Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani author living in Glasgow. She is a Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Awardee (2021) and the award winning author of two cookbooks, ‘Summers Under the Tamarind Tree’ (2016, Quarto Books) and ‘Mountain Berries and Desert Spice’ (2017, Quarto Books) and one memoir, ‘Andaza: A memoir of food, flavour and finding […]
Book Launch – What Am I, A Deer? by Polly Barton
Parel Joy
Parel Joy is a poet, literary translator and zine maker based in Amsterdam, working in the Netherlands and Scotland. Her pamphlet The Queen of Cups and Other Poems was published by SPAM in 2022 and she runs DykeHouse Press, which has published 3 zines of queer poetics so far. Parel has translated writing by Bryan […]
Janis MacKay
Janis Mackay is an award-winning author, winning the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2013 with her novel The Accidental Time Traveller. With eleven books for children she has recently made the shift into writing for adults. Her first published novel, which came out in 2025, is On a Northern Shore, by Luath Press. It is described […]
Taylor Walle
Taylor Walle is a writer whose work explores the dark, the strange, and the surreal. A former English professor, she draws heavily on 18th- and 19th-century British fiction in her own writing, especially the Gothic. She is also the author of an occasional newsletter called Night Hag. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia […]
Subsidised Winter Residency
Darcie Springall
Darcie Springall is a poet, writer, journalist, and editor based in Edinburgh. She writes poetry that explores love, loss, and transformation, capturing the tension between yearning, acceptance, and deliverance. Her work gives voice to hidden emotions, celebrates lived experiences, and chronicles compassion, reverence, and awe within the human journey. An award-winning amateur photographer (2025 European […]
Phoebe Stuckes
Phoebe Stuckes is a writer from Somerset now living in London. Her pamphlet, Gin & Tonic was published by The Poetry Business and shortlisted for The Michael Marks Award. She has been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. Her first full-length collection, Platinum Blonde was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2020 […]
Roanna Gonsalves
Roanna Gonsalves is an award-winning writer and educator. She was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and now lives in Sydney, Australia. She was the inaugural recipient of The Bridge Awards’ Varuna – Cove Park Writing Residency 2019. She served on the Board of Writing NSW (2018-2023) and has been a judge / assessor of […]
Lela Kurtanidze
Lela Kurtanidze is an author, social worker, and civil activist in Georgia. Her debut poetry collection, “Melatonin” (Intelekti Publishing, 2021), was shortlisted for the Saba, Georgia’s most prestigious literary award, in 2022. Her poems have been featured in the German-language Anthology “Säe den Weizen, Ukraine” ( eds. Bela Chekurishvili and Sabine Schiffner, Klak Verlag, 2022) […]
