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 […]
Claudia Berghorn
Claudia Berghorn is a German writer and life writing teacher who works both in German and in English. Claudia has published two anthologies of life writing with her German students and is now working on her first collection of poetry. In her 365-day project this year, as a modern interpretation of the ancient Japanese tradition […]
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), […]
Andrew Rubens
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Andrew Rubens was awarded a 4-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
William Keohane
William Keohane is a writer from Limerick. His essays have been published in British GQ, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, and The Tangerine. In 2021, he was longlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series. William is the current writer-in-residence at Ormston House. William says: “I […]