Lora Eli Smith
Lora Eli Smith is a writer from Appalachian Kentucky. Lora’s family has been in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky for seven generations and she comes from a background of social justice organizing and community building that informs her writing. Smith is currently working on a series of essays on climate disaster and radical hope in […]
Katie Hodgetts
Katie Hodgetts FRSA, named the Conduit’s Young Climate Innovator (2023) and a Global Youth Awards Finalist for empowering young people (2018) has extensive experience in how to drive internal and external change. She has coordinated teams of youth and physically mobilised over 80,000 people for climate action during her roles as UK Youth Climate Coalition […]
Laima Vincé Sruoginis
Laima Vincė Sruoginis earned a PhD in Humanities from Vilnius University, an MFA in Writing from Columbia University, an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of New Hampshire, a BA in English and German Literature from Rutgers University. She has been awarded two Fulbright grants, a National Endowment for the Arts in Literature, the PEN […]
Stark Holborn
Stark Holborn is a novelist and games writer from Bristol. She is the author of the Factus Sequence, the Triggernometry series, and the groundbreaking digital serial, Nunslinger. Stark’s fiction challenges established genre tropes and has been praised as “splendidly inclusive and innovative sci-fi” by Joanne Harris and “witty and atmospheric” by The Guardian. Stark’s fiction […]
Peggy Riley
Peggy Riley is a playwright, author and lecturer in creative writing. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for prizes including Bridport and the Costa Short Story Award, and she has written for publications including Elle and The Wall Street Journal. Her first novel is Amity & Sorrow. She was a writer-on-attachment at Soho Theatre, and […]
Emily Munro
Emily Munro (she/her) is a writer and filmmaker based in Glasgow whose work explores our ambivalent relationship/s to the past and future in the Anthropocene. Thematically, she is often concerned with energy use and extraction, the correspondence and dichotomies between plants, plastics, humans and the cosmos, nostalgic viewpoints on the Pyrocene, archival re-use, and speculative […]
Liam Bell
Liam Bell is author of four novels, most recently The Sleepless (2023) and Man at Sea (2022). He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling and is coming to Cove Park to work on a non-fiction project on rejection across the creative arts, as well as his next fiction project.
Callum McSorley
Callum McSorley is a writer based in Glasgow whose short stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Monstrous Regiment and New Writing Scotland. His debut novel Squeaky Clean (2023) – inspired by his years working at a car wash in Glasgow’s East End – garnered praise from the likes of Chris Brookmyre, Peter James and Kevin […]
Julie Kennedy
Julie Kennedy is a writer and teacher, highly commended in the recent 2022 Ledbury Poetry Competition. During her residency at Cove park, she hopes to finishing the final edit of an e-book of her first novel. She received a Scottish Government funded Scottish Publication Award in 2022 for this e-book project.
Sue Arnold
Sue Arnold is an author and award-winning journalist who has written regular columns for The Observer and The Guardian, and continues to contribute to different national newspapers. She was registered blind some years ago, as she suffers from a congenital eye problem, and she has written on this and also on many other issues. She […]
Ken Cockburn
Ken Cockburn is a poet, translator, editor and writing tutor, based in Edinburgh. Formerly Fieldworker and Assistant Director at the Scottish Poetry Library, in 2006 he was the first writer-in-residence at the John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland, and was awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Literary Translation 2008. A Creative Scotland ‘Vital Spark’ Award […]
Peter Daniels
Peter Daniels has won several poetry competition including the Arvon (2008) and TLS (2010). As Queer Writer in Residence at the London Metropolitan Archives in winter 2011/12 he wrote the historically accurate and obscene “Ballad of Captain Rigby”: an illustrated pamphlet of it is in preparation. He has had non-obscene pamphlets from Smith/Doorstop and HappenStance, […]