Peter Roberts
Peter lives near Moniaive in Dumfriesshire. He led Moniaive’s successful bid for a Creative Place Award in 2015 and started writing poetry in 2016 in the Moniaive Poetry Workshop, set-up within the Award programme. Peter won the Fresh Voice Award at the 2020 Wigtown Book Festival Poetry Prize, and his poems have been published in […]
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 International Dylan Thomas Prize, shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize […]
Cherry Smyth
Cherry Smyth is an Irish writer, living in London. Her first two poetry collections, When the Lights Go Up, 2001 and One Wanted Thing, 2006 were published by Lagan Press. Her third collection Test, Orange, 2012, was published by Pindrop Press and her debut novel, Hold Still (Holland Park Press) appeared in 2013. Famished (Pindrop […]
Josey Rebelle
Josey Rebelle is a DJ and writer from London. She was awarded a writing residency at Cove Park as part of the Sophie Warne Fellowship after graduating from Birkbeck’s MA in Creative Writing in 2021 with the highest marked dissertation. She is currently developing that fictional piece into her debut novel and will be working […]
Belinda Zhawi
Belinda Zhawi (MA.MOYO), based in South East London, is a literary and sound artist whose work grapples with diaspora identity & heritage through the mediums of poetry & sound. During her residency at Cove Park, Belinda aims to continue developing her creative practice and working on ‘Viva Voce’ – a poetry project that aims to […]
Tim Craven
Tim Craven is a poet based in Edinburgh. During his time at Cove Park, Tim intends to complete a manuscript which he hopes will become his debut collection. Using the time and distance provided by the residency, Tim will select and revise the poems for inclusion, arranging them into a coherent whole. The poems, which […]
Beth Cochrane
Beth Cochrane is a writer and poet based in Edinburgh. She is currently working on her first novel – set in a not-unimaginable dystopian future – and will be working on completing a second draft during her residency. Beth will be using this residency to explore isolation and loneliness, which are key themes of her […]
Ellen Renton
Ellen Renton is a poet, performer, and theatre maker from Edinburgh. The project that she will be working on while in residence at Cove Park is an exploration of the culture around sight. Much of her previous work has been influenced by her experience of living with a visual impairment, but with this project, she […]
Patrick Langley
Patrick Langley is a novelist based in London. His debut novel Arkady, a coming-of-age story set during a time of protest, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2018. During his residency at Cove Park he intends to complete the manuscript for his second novel, The Variations, which tells the story of several generations of a musical family […]
Sean Wai Keung
Sean Wai Keung is a Glasgow-based poet, interdisciplinary and community artist with research interests in food and migration. He is currently working on a series of poems exploring food as a connective device between both people and artforms, and he hopes to encourage communal conversations between artists around how food can be used to explore […]
Amna Saleem
Amna Saleem is a Scottish Pakistani writer with proud working class roots and a background in journalism. During the 2020 Coronavirus lockdown, she accidentally neglected her debut YA (young adult) novel to focus on TV projects, which are now in various stages of development. Amna is delighted to be spending time at Cove Park where she […]
