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Emma Musty

Emma Musty is a writer who grew up in the wild beauty of Dumfries and Galloway but these days finds herself most often in the city of Athens, Greece. It was while on a residency at Cove Park that she first heard from Lauren Parsons of Legend Press who would go on to become her […]

Subsidised Winter Residency

Book Launch – Carrion Crow by Heather Parry

Event 7 March 2025

Adam Vaughn

Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking a Creative […]

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NAARCA Commission: Greenlandic writer Pivinnguaq Mørch

Text Climate Crisis

Elle Nash

Elle Nash is the author of the novels Deliver Me (Unnamed Press, 2023 and Verve Books, 2024), Gag Reflex (Clash Books, 2022), and Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books, 2018 and 404 Ink, 2019), which was featured in the 2018 June Reading Room of O – The Oprah Magazine and hailed by Publishers Weekly as a ‘complex, impressive exploration of […]

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Lucy Holland

Lucy Holland is an author working across the fields of history, mythology and fantasy. Her current interest lies in re-imagining folktales and Celtic myth, with a view to re-situating the stories of queer people, and uncovering the complex regional histories of early medieval Britain. Her first historical fantasy novel, Sistersong, a reimagining of the folk […]

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Rebecca Kathryn Sharp

Rebecca Kathryn Sharp is a British writer currently based in Cumbria but soon emigrating to Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. She recently graduated with a master’s in creative writing from Queen’s University Belfast. Her work is mostly creative nonfiction and lighter fiction influenced by her own experiences with themes of queerness, journey, and belonging. BBC […]

Subsidised Winter Residency

Adam Vaughn

Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking […]

Open Residency

Hadley Hammer

From growing up at the base of the Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to becoming a professional skier traveling the globe for big mountain expeditions and competitions, Hadley prefers to explore with skis on her feet. Since she debuted in the Freeride World Tour at age 25-‘old’ for most competitors, she’s gone on to star […]

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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 […]

Subsidised Winter Residency

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 […]

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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 […]

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