Kirsty Crawford
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Kirsty Crawford 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 […]
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander is a novelist and short story writer based in Edinburgh. After training at Edinburgh College of Art, she went on to study creative writing at the University of Glasgow and Northumbria University, gaining her PhD in 2018. Jane’s most recent work is in the field of speculative fiction; her latest novel A User’s […]
Anna Reckin
Anna Reckin is a poet based in Norwich. Her first two collections, Three Reds and Line to Curve, are published by Shearsman. Over the last few years she has also worked as a translator, mainly in collaboration with Norwegian poet Hanne Bramness. She is currently exploring ways to extend her practice into book arts and […]
Catherine Spencer
Catherine Spencer is an art historian and writer based at the University of St Andrews. Her book Beyond the Happening: Performance Art and the Politics of Communication was published by Manchester University Press in 2020. In 2021 she co-curated the exhibition Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism at Glasgow Women’s Library. Her […]
Helen Kellock
Helen Kellock is a award-winning author and illustrator based in Glasgow. At the heart of Helen’s practice is a love of drawing, narrative and making picture books. Her first author-illustrated book, The Star in the Forest, was published in 2019 by Thames & Hudson. Her second book, Out to Sea, published in 2021, was shortlisted […]
Anna Bambridge
Anna Bambridge is a writer based in Glasgow. Her work is about seeing and being seen. She has studied physics and vision and draws from her scientific experience to explore how our perceptions are impacted by paradigm choice. During her time at Cove Park she will be working on her memoir “The Story of My […]
Caroline Brothers
Associate artist Caroline Brothers returns to Cove Park as part of our 2023 Winter Subsidised Residencies programme. Caroline Brothers is a novelist who works at the intersection between fiction and reportage. Born in Australia, she lived for many years in France and Latin America but is now London-based. She is the author of The Memory Stones and the […]
Thomas A. Clark
The poet Thomas A Clark lives in a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. His selected poems, The Threadbare Coat, was published by Carcanet Press in 2020. In many publications from his own Moschatel Press, Thomas A Clark explores possibilities for presentation as an aspect of form; in simple formats of books and […]
James Gaywood & Eric Langley
Since early 2021, James and Eric have been collaborating on an ongoing project – Pathlines – that brings together James’ artwork and Eric’s poetry to track and trace interactions between the human observer and the flightpaths of various animals: birds, bees, and so on. A number of these collaborations appeared in Prototype 3 (2021). Previously, […]
Isabel Ferrari
Isabel Ferrari (she/her) graduated in 2021 from the University of Glasgow with a Joint Honours Degree in English and Comparative Literature, and she is completing an MLitt in Fantasy Literature from the University of Glasgow. Her research interests include modern fantasy literature, transmedia fantasy, and mythology and folklore in fantasy. She is currently working on […]
Mairi Macleod
The Young Gaelic Writer Residency is the result of a partnership between Cove Park and Comhairle nan Leabhraichean / The Gaelic Books Council. It supports a Gaelic writer based in Scotland, aged under 30, and provides the time and funding required to develop current projects. Tha an cothrom airson Sgrìobhadair Òg air Mhuinntireas na thoradh […]
Amber Lee Dodd
Amber Lee Dodd is an award-winning children’s author and short-story writer. Her work includes the critically acclaimed novels We Are Giants, Lightning Chase Me Home and The Thirteenth Home of Noah Bradley. Her short fiction has been published internationally and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She lives in Glasgow where she is a Royal Literary […]