Nia Davies
Nia Davies was awarded a place on the Academi Gymreig mentoring scheme for writers in 2008. Polaris is her first novel, inspired by Arctic Scandinavia. Her poems have been published in several magazines and anthologies and her first pamphlet will be published by Salt in autumn 2012. Nia also writes non-fiction pieces such as country […]
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in China and comes from a family of sea lovers. Her grandfather was a fisherman, her father was sent to a labour camp in the 60s because he wanted to paint the sea instead of being a farmer. At 19 she left her hometown and studied at Beijing Film […]
Jo Shapcott
Jo Shapcott was born on the 24th March 1953, in London, and is a poet, editor and lecturer. Shapcott has won the National Poetry Competition twice, in 1985 and 1991. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 (2000; reprinted 2006) consists of poetry from her three earlier collections: Electroplating the Baby (1988), which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize […]
Inua Ellams
Inua Ellams is a word and graphic artist based in London. He was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to the UK as a teenager. His work merges visual art, spoken word and theatre, and he is known for his iconic imagery, beauty and attention to detail. He writes about his upbringing, the experience […]
Jan Carson
In Autumn 2022, Cove Park former resident Jan Carson will spend four week at Varuna as part of the Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange Programme. Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in East Belfast. Her debut novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears and short story collection, Children’s Children, were published by Liberties […]
Nicola White
We are delighted to announce the writer taking part in the 2022 residency exchange between Cove Park in Scotland and Varuna, the National Writer’s House in New South Wales, Australia. This residency allows one writer from Scotland to spend a month at Varuna and one writer from Australia to enjoy a month at Cove Park. […]
Victoria MacKenzie
In Autumn 2019, Scottish novelist, short story writer and Cove Park former resident Victoria MacKenzie will spend four weeks at Varuna in Australia as part of the Cove Park / Varuna Residency Exchange Programme. Victoria MacKenzie lives in the East Neuk of Fife and teaches creative writing for the Open College of the Arts and […]
Sumayya Usmani
Sumayya Usmani is a Pakistani author living in Glasgow. She is a Scottish Book Trust Next Chapter Awardee (2021) and the award winning author of two cookbooks and one memoir. Sumayya is currently finishing a MLitt in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow followed by the DFA Creative Writing starting October 2024. Sumayya also mentors […]
Csilla Toldy
Following an open call for applications in Autumn 2022, Csilla Toldy was awarded a 3-week funded residency. Cove Park’s programme of funded residencies support research, the development of existing and new projects, collaboration, interdisciplinary practice, and the production of new work and ideas. All national and international artists, cultural practitioners, and researchers, working individually and […]
Wolfgang Butt
Wolfgang Butt, born 1937 in Wuppertal, Germany, is a professor of Scandinavian Studies and lectured at the Universities of Kiel, Munich and Vienna until 2000. He is a short-time publisher of Scandinavian literature (1986-1994) and translator of Scandinavian literature into German (Enquist, Mankell, Stangerup, et al.). Additionally, he writes short fiction and poetry with publications […]
Ingrid Glienke
Ingrid Glienke was born in Eckernförde, Germany in 1951. She studied English, Scandinavian Languages and Literature and Creative Writing in Kiel, Canberra and London. She works as an author and translator (English and Danish into German). Her volume of poetry Septemberroad appeared in 2013. Her poetry and short prose have also been published in magazines […]
Mairi Macleod
Mairi Macleod (b.1996) is a Gaelic writer from Glasgow, Scotland. A graduate of the University of Glasgow, she completed an undergraduate degree in Geography and a master’s degree in Earth Futures. Her creative work echoes her academic interests, critically engaging with humanity’s relationships with space, place, and the complex thing we call ‘nature’. As a […]