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 […]
Digital Writing Residency with Cove Park and Varuna
Sarah Urwin Jones
Sarah Urwin Jones is a writer and critic based in Edinburgh. She studied History and French and Mediaeval Art History at universities in Edinburgh, Paris and St. Andrews, and now works as a classical music and visual art critic. In 2016 she received a New Writers Award (Narrative Non-Fiction) from the Scottish Book Trust and […]
Samantha Clark
Samantha Clark is an artist and writer based in Orkney. Her first book The Clearing: A Memoir of Art, Family and Mental Health was published by Little, Brown in March 2020. Sam’s writing has emerged gradually out of her visual art practice and explores similiar concerns. During her residency at Cove Park she plans to work […]
Aoife Lyall
Aoife Lyall is an Irish poet living and working in the Scottish Highlands. This residency will enable her to complete her debut collection, Mother, Nature (Bloodaxe Books, 2021), specifically through a final in-depth critical analysis of each poem contained therein, followed by a review of the collection’s overall ordering and structure. Beyond this, she will divide […]
Polly Atkin
Polly Atkin is a poet and essayist based in Grasmere, Cumbria. During her residency, Polly will be working on her second poetry collection Much With Body, taking time to edit and redraft as well as work on new poems. Much With Body revolves around key themes of location and dislocation, contemporary rural life, and living with chronic illness, exploring what it […]
Laia Jufresa
Laia Jufresa is a Mexican author based in Scotland, focussing primarily upon fiction. During her residency at Cove Park she will work on her second novel WISHBONE. This is an ambitious project requiring research on a broad spectrum of themes such as: forced disappearances in Mexico, colour theory and chromatics, common expressions in German, pet octopuses, […]
Lawrence Illsley
The Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Fellowship was established in 2011 and offers an outstanding graduate of the Creative Writing MA at Birkbeck, University of London, the opportunity of a residency at Cove Park to continue to develop their work. Former residents include Robert Akam, Graham Paul Donovan, Julia Gray, Gemma Elwin Harris, Genevieve Herr, Lou Kramskoy, Sadie […]