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’ […]
Enkaryon Ang
Enkaryon Ang is a poet based in Taipei, Taiwan. Since 2009 he has published several collections of poetry and essays. He was selected by the literary magazine, Unitas, as one of the top three poets born in the 1980s in Taiwan. He also works as a literature curator and art critic, mainly for world literature […]
Nick Makoha
Nick Makoha is the founder of The Obsidian Foundation. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year. Nick is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and the Complete Works alumnus. He won the 2015 Brunel International African […]
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 […]
Lorna Ough
Lorna Ough currently lives and works in Glasgow. She has a BA (hons) from The University of Brighton in Fine Art: Critical Practice and studied on part of the the MLitt Art Writing programme at The Glasgow School of Art. Her practice has included performance and curating – and sometimes a combination of the two […]
Morag Smith
Morag Smith lives in Paisley. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in ezines, magazines and anthologies, including Ink, Sweat and Tears, Pushing Out the Boat (Apr 2021), Poetry Ireland Review and Gutter. She was recently shortlisted and commended for the Scottish Book Trust’s New Writers Awards 2021, is the winner of 2021 Paisley Book Festival/Janet […]
Laurence Estanove
Laurence Estanove is a French-born non-fiction writer and crafter/designer based in Glasgow. As a writer, she’s interested in the influence of music on people’s attachment to a particular place; her current project explores the attractiveness of Glasgow’s independent music scene since the early 1980s. Designed as an oral history, the book draws from original interviews […]