Cove Park Translation Centre
Clara Pezzuto
This year sees the start of an exciting partnership between Cove Park and Publishing Scotland which brings translators of books by Scotland-based writers to Cove Park for a four-week residency. Whilst here the translators will have the opportunity to meet the author of the their books and other professionals in their field, as well as […]
Zillah Bowes
Now in its fourth year, the partnership between Royal Holloway and Cove Park brings an emerging writer from Royal Holloway’s Creative Writing MA to Cove Park for a four week residency. The 2016 Fellow is Zillah Bowes. Zillah is a writer and filmmaker based in the UK. She started writing poetry in moments snatched whilefilming […]
Anne Brauner
This year sees the start of an exciting partnership between Cove Park and Publishing Scotland which brings translators of books by Scotland-based writers to Cove Park for a four-week residency. Whilst here the translators will have the opportunity to meet the author of the their books and other professionals in their field, as well as […]
Robert McGinty
Robert McGinty grew up in Fife and studied English Literature and History in Edinburgh and Information Studies in Aberdeen. He now lives in Edinburgh with his wife and ten-month-old son. He works full time and writes in the evenings whenever the baby is asleep. His first novel, Hell Money, was shortlisted for the 2005 Wow Factor, a competition […]
P M Freestone
P.M. Freestone writes YA fiction, has published a handful of short stories (including work in anthologies from Penguin Books), and is now developing several novel-length projects. She is a member of Scottish PEN and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. A self-proclaimed nerd, since childhood she has been intrigued with all things speculative—her […]
Rachel Plummer
Rachel Plummer was born in London, grew up in East Anglia and Paris, and has spent most of her adult life in Edinburgh, where she lives with her husband and two young children. She has had poetry published in magazines, including Agenda, RAUM, Skylark Review and Dactyl. She is a Troubadour prizewinner and was runner up in the […]
Sarah Urwin Jones
Sarah Urwin Jones is an arts journalist and classical music writer who writes regularly for a number of national newspapers and magazines. She has been The Times’ Classical Music Critic for Scotland for many years and writes fortnightly on visual art for The Herald. She was formerly Theatre Critic for The Independent and has contributed as a subject specialist to Chambers Biographical […]
Victoria Mackenzie
Victoria MacKenzie moved from Brighton to Scotland in 2007 to pursue an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, before completing a PhD which examined how contemporary poets engage with science. Writing prizes include the Robert McLellan Poetry Award and the Ruth Rendell Short Story Prize, and her work is published in […]
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Marcas Mac an Tuairneir writes poetry, prose, drama and journalism, in Gaelic and English and splits his time between Inverness and his hometown of York. Marcas is at Cove Park working on the second draft of a new play. Marcas’ début collection, Deò was published in 2013 by Grace Note Publications. A second, Lus na Tùise, is expected in […]
Robert Akam
The Birkbeck / Sophie Warne Fellowship for an emerging writer supports an outstanding graduate of the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA at a critical juncture in their writing life. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, within the context of a […]
Jessica Fox
Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK at a key stage in their work. We offer the writer time and space to pursue a project or new ways of working free from the pressure of specified outcomes, in a changing community of artists across a range of art-forms, […]