Lauren Dyer Amazeen
Lauren is an arts writer, critic, lecturer and Chair of Cove Park’s Board of Trustees. She recently served as Chair of CCA Glasgow for seven years — and on the Boards of Outset Scotland, David Dale Gallery, Market Gallery and on the Friends Committee of Glasgow School of Art. She was Director of The Kitchen […]
Sarah Trounce
Sarah Trounce grew up in East Anglia and studied English at Birmingham University, before moving to London. She worked as a manager in the design industry for ten years and is now a freelance consultant and writer, collaborating with creative people all over the world. Sarah was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize […]
Farah Abdessamad
Farah Abdessamad is an essayist, literature and art critic at work on several long-form projects including a novel and a collection of essays. Farah’s writings commonly thread on themes related to ideas, history and culture. She lives with a big suitcase which is resting, for now, in New York City.
Tracey Emerson
TJ Emerson’s latest psychological thriller, The Perfect Holiday, will be published by Boldwood Books in April 2022. Before writing fiction, Tracey worked in theatre and community arts. As well as acting, she ran drama workshops in healthcare settings, focusing on adults with mental health issues. Her short stories have been widely published in anthologies and […]
Luca Serra
Originally from Northern Italy, Luca Serra has been living in Scotland since 2014. He has dedicated himself to writing for about ten years and has so far written two novels and various short stories. In 2020 he received the Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for Fiction. Luca is particularly interested in contemporary social issues […]
Audrey Osler
Audrey Osler is a writer and scholar, living in the UK but working transnationally. While at Cove Park she will focus on her book Where are you from? No, where are you really from? to be published by Virago Press in 2022. In this she draws on memoir and history to explore the themes of migration, identity […]
Chay Osler
Chay Osler is a writer of fiction for children and young people, living in Bedfordshire, England. He holds a BA (Hons) in Theatre Studies with Creative Writing and an MA in Contemporary Popular Theatre, both from Liverpool Hope University. His past work, largely short stories and verse in the fantasy genre, explores difference, environmental degradation, […]
Youth Arts Bursary Programme 2022
Claire-Louise Bennett
Claire-Louise Bennett’s fiction and essays have appeared in a number of publications including The White Review, The Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper’s Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and The New York Times magazine. She is the author of Pond (Fitzcarraldo, 2015), Fish Out of Water (Juxta Press, 2020), and Checkout 19 (Jonathan Cape, 2021.) She lives in Ireland.
Dani Burlison
Dani Burlison (she/her) is a writer, teacher, activist and Gen X mom based in Sonoma County, California. She is the creator/editor of an anthology, “All of Me: Stories of Love, Anger and the Female Body” (PM Press, 2019), and the author of a short story collection, “Some Places Worth Leaving” (Tolsun Books, 2020) and “Dendrophilia and […]
James Mitchell
James Mitchell is a writer and performer of science fiction, magical realism and true stories. He graduated from the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA in 2015, and since then has spent his time trying to smuggle odd tales into places like Vice, GQ, and the vacant fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square. In 2019 he won the […]
Shaun Wilson
Shaun Wilson was born in 1980 and raised in Wigton, Cumbria. He recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at Northumbria University, winning the annual prize for Best Postgraduate Student in Humanities. In 2018 his debut novel, a work-in-progress, made the final of PRH’s Write Now programme. In 2019 it won a TLC Northern Writers’ […]