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Jack Mapanje

In 2014, Scotland will be hosting the Commonwealth Games. This residency series, supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures brings artists to Scotland from the African Commonwealth during the UK’s Olympic year with the aim of creating cultural links between the two events and forging new artistic relationships into 2014. The residencies are between four and six weeks […]

Writers of the African Commonwealth Residency

Sadie McKenzie

This partnership with University College Birkbeck in London brings an outstanding emerging writer, and winner of Birkbeck’s Sophie Warne Memorial essay prize to Cove Park for four weeks. This is a unique opportunity for a new writer to have their first professional residency and work on their own project among other professional artists in Cove […]

Birkbeck/Sophie Warne Fellowship

Mariama Khan

Each year, Cove Park hosts at least one international writer on a residency of up to twelve weeks. This year the residencies are between four and six weeks long and are for professional artists in mid-career  to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Mariama’s Khan’s residency also brings together […]

International Writer Residency

Syl Cheney Coker

Each year, Cove Park hosts at least one international writer on a residency of up to twelve weeks. This year the residencies are between four and six weeks long and are for professional artists in mid-career  to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Syl Coker’s residency also brings together […]

International Writer Residency

Ellen Banda-Aaku

In 2014, Scotland will be hosting the Commonwealth Games. This residency series, supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures brings artists to Scotland from the African Commonwealth during the UK’s Olympic year with the aim of creating cultural links between the two events and forging new artistic relationships into 2014. The residencies are between four and […]

Writers of the African Commonwealth Residency

Louise Welsh

This series of residencies starts in May and runs through until August 2012 and is for writers to spend time on their own projects in the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Writers based in Scotland are eligible, and this year the three writers come from the fields of both prose and poetry and are […]

Scottish Writer Residency

Gerry Cambridge

This series of residencies starts in May and runs through until August 2012 and is for writers to spend time on their own projects in the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Writers based in Scotland are eligible, and this year the three writers come from the fields of both prose and poetry and are […]

Scottish Writer Residency

Helen Cross

This series of residencies, running this year during July and August is for writers from anywhere in the UK to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. This year two novelists have been awarded a residency and are coming for between two weeks and one month. The UK residencies are […]

UK Writer Residency

Brian Chikwava

In 2014, Scotland will be hosting the Commonwealth Games. This residency series, supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures brings artists to Scotland from the African Commonwealth during the UK’s Olympic year with the aim of creating cultural links between the two events and forging new artistic relationships into 2014. The residencies are between four and […]

Writers of the African Commonwealth Residency

Russel Celyn Jones

This series of residencies, running this year during July and August is for writers from anywhere in the UK to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. This year two novelists have been awarded a residency and are coming for between two weeks and one month. The UK residencies are […]

UK Writer Residency

Chiew-Siah Tei

This series of residencies starts in May and runs through until August 2012 and is for writers to spend time on their own projects in the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park. Writers based in Scotland are eligible, and this year the three writers come from the fields of both prose and poetry and are […]

Scottish Writer Residency

Ron Butlin

These residencies of up to six weeks each are awarded to writers based in Scotland. They offer support to an established writer of poetry, fiction or drama at a critical point in their career, providing opportunities for networking and building connections with other artists and writers, as well as undisturbed and unstructured solitude. At Cove […]

Scottish Writer Residency