Feminism Art Maintenance
‘Kitchen Conversations’ is a short retreat hosted at Cove Park with the international research group Feminism Art Maintenance (F.A.M.) – Yin Aiwen, Petra Bauer, Binna Choi, Mijke van der Drift, Marius Dybwad Brandrud, Fabiana Ex-Sousa, Annette Krauss, Frances Stacey, Kirsten Lloyd, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, Nat Raha, Jenny Richards, and Marina Vishmidt. It has been devised as […]
Hatty Nestor
Hatty Nestor is a cultural critic, poet and writer. She has been writer-in-residence at the Jerwood Space in London (2017) and critic-in-residence at Studio Das Weisse Haus in Vienna (2019). Her writing has been supported by the Arts Council, and appears in Frieze, Art in America, The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, The White Review, and […]
Polly Barton
Polly Barton is a writer and translator of Japanese literature and nonfiction. Her essays and translations have been published by The White Review, Words Without Borders, Granta, and Monkey. Full-length translations include Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (Pushkin Press, 2017), Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda (Tilted Axis Press/Soft Skull Press, 2020), There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (Bloomsbury, […]
Tim Fab-Eme
Tim Fab-Eme is an engineer and poet who experiments with poetic forms on the themes of environmental and social justice. He is the Issue 7 poetry editor of Reckoning: Creative Writing on Environmental Justice, and Fall 2022 poetry candidate of the University of Notre Dame’s MFA programme. Tim loves exploring the wonders of Nature, gardening, […]
Jane Rogoyska
Jane Rogoyska is a writer. She is the author of three books: Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa (Jonathan Cape, 2013), a novel, Kozłowski (Holland House, 2019, Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020) and Surviving Katyń: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth (Oneworld 2021, Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2022, Longlisted […]
Julie Kennedy
Julie Kennedy writes poetry and fiction and teaches part-time in a secondary school. During her short time at Cove Park, she will work on a poetry sequence around the themes of memory, class, immigration and coastlines. Julie is open-minded as to where her residency might take her: Having spent time at Cove Park before she […]
Cove Park Associates: Varuna, The National Writers’ House, Australia
Michael Donkor
Michael Donkor studied English at Wadham College, Oxford, undertook a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway and now teaches English Literature at St Paul’s Girls’ School in London. The Observer named him as one of 2018’s best debut authors for his first novel Hold (4th Estate) and in 2019, he was longlisted for the […]
Eric Chi-Puo Lin
We are pleased to welcome Eric Chi-Puo Lin to Cove Park this summer, in our ongoing series of residencies for Taiwanese writers and researchers. A literary writer, a journalist, an artist, and an art critic, Lin paints a picture by taking three different threads —’literary creation’, ‘trend observations,’ and ‘news reporting’ —and weaving them into […]
Associates Residencies & Opportunities Announced
Yuching Lin
We are pleased to welcome Yuching Lin to Cove Park this summer, in our ongoing series of residencies for Taiwanese writers and researchers. Yuching Lin currently is an independent research-based translator, curator and writer based in Taipei, Taiwan. Her projects usually involve and introduce issues of politics, culture, history and society of South and Southeast […]
Kirsty Logan
Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize, and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. A Portable Shelter won the Gavin […]