Sarah Maine
Sarah Maine is a writer whose first novel Bhalla Strand was published by Freight Books, Glasgow in 2014 and is being re-launched by Freight in May 2016 as The House between Tides (and under the same title by Atria in North America, Allen and Unwin in Australia). Sarah now lives in York but grew up […]
Scottish Book Trust
Cove Park is delighted to welome 5 writers in residence, here as part of the New Writers’ Award from the Scottish Book Trust. In 2006 Greg Whelan won the Sloan Prize for Writings in the Scottish Vernacular and has since had short stories published in various collections such as New Writing Scotland,Almost An Island: A Fife Anthology, […]
James Nixon
The Royal Holloway Emerging Writer Fellowship brings an outstanding student on the Creative Writing MA to Cove Park for a residency of up to four weeks. Here they are given the space and time to develop their ideas in a community of professional artists. The opportunity for the Fellow to extend their professional network is […]
Julia Gray
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 […]
Rachel Cusk
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, […]
Scottish Book Trust
Each year the Scottish Book Trust bring new writers to Cove Park to develop their work and experience the unfettered space and time that Cove Park offers. We look forward to welcoming them again in April.
News from Cove Park
New Writers Awards Residency
The Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awards are a unrivalled opportunity for writers living in Scotland who are committed to developing their craft. The categories are across fiction, poetry, Scots and Children and Young Adult, and in 2013 the winners will also come on retreat to Cove Park.
Opportunity for Poets
Freeing the Poet’s Voice
Kristin Linklater, the world renowned voice coach, who has worked on voice and performance skills with the likes of Donald Sutherland, Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray came to Cove Park in April 2011. She has developed her own method, called Freeing the Natural Voice, which is now taught all over the world. It is not […]