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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, […]

Open Residency
Isabel Ferarri

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 […]

Open Residency

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 […]

Young Gaelic Writer
Amber Lee Dodd

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 […]

Open Residency
Eoghan Walls

Eoghan Walls

Eoghan Walls is an Irish poet. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, and his most recent collection – Pigeon Songs(Seren 2019) was shortlisted for the Piggot Prize. He recently translated a mammoth collection of Heidegger’s poetry (Thought Poems, Rowman 2021), and his debut novel – The Gospel of Orla – is due to come […]

Open Residency

Tian Yi Zheng

Tian Yi Zheng is a writer and lawyer based in London. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London and is currently working on a collection of short stories. Her writing has appeared online in various publications, including competition placements in CRAFT and Fractured Lit, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Tian […]

Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship

Cove Park / Varuna the National Writers’ House Residency Exchange Programme: 2022 Awards Announced

News 25 May 2022

Leah Kaminsky

Leah Kaminsky is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel The Waiting Room won the Voss Literary Prize. The Hollow Bones won the International Book Awards in both Literary Fiction & Historical Fiction categories and the Best Book Awards for Literary Fiction. She is the author of ten books and her third novel, Doll’s Eye, will be released […]

Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange

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 […]

Kitchen Conversations Residency

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 […]

Awarded Residency
Polly Barton

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, […]

Awarded Residency
Tim Fab-Eme

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, […]

Awarded Residency