Gregor Verwijmeren
Dutch writer Gregor Verwijmeren studied Language and Culture Studies at Utrecht University and guitar at the conservatory in the same town. He published fiction in – among others – De Gidsand Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine. In 2018 De vorm van geluid (The shape of sound) was published by Van Oorschot, the oldest surviving […]
Simon Bor
Simon is a writer, a printmaker and a multi-award-winning producer of children’s animation, including ‘Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids’ and ‘Wolves, Witches & Giants’. His printmaking practice dates back to his time at the Cambridge School of Art, and later, St Martin’s School of Art. He went on to study animation at West Surrey College […]
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander is a novelist and short story writer based in Edinburgh. During her residency she will work on her third novel, developing her longstanding interest in uncanny fiction in an ambitious project that encompasses multiple timelines and protagonists. The novel will explore intersections of dreams and reality alongside different kinds of marginalisation, through secret […]
Jen Calleja
Jen Calleja is a writer and literary translator based in Hastings, East Sussex currently focusing on memoir and poetry translation. While at Cove Park she will be working towards translating German author Marion Poschmann’s multi-award-winning poetry collection Nimbus. Her translation of Poschmann’s novel The Pine Islands was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019, […]
Winter & Spring 2021 Independently-Funded Residencies
Audrey Osler
Audrey Osler is a writer and scholar, living in the UK but working transnationally. While at Cove Park she will focus on her book Where are you from? No, where are you really from? to be published by Virago Press in 2022. In this she draws on memoir and history to explore the themes of […]
Funded Residencies 2021
Jane Rogoyska
Jane Rogoyska is the acclaimed author of Gerda Taro: Inventing Robert Capa. Trained as a filmmaker, she has a particular interest in the turbulent period from the 1930s to the Cold War in Europe. Her research into the 1940 Katyń Massacre led to her first novel, Kozłowski (long-listed for the Desmond Elliot Prize) and Still Here: A […]
HOCP at Home with Writer Roanna Gonsalves
Annie Rutherford
Cove Park is pleased to offer residencies to literary translators as part of our Funded Literature Summer Programme in 2020. Annie Rutherford is based in Edinburgh, albeit with frequent stints in Germany, where, as she describes it, ‘she makes things with words, and champions poetry and translates literature in all its guises’. Annie works as […]
Amy Conway
Amy is a playwright, theatre maker, and actor based in Glasgow. She trained at the University of Glasgow and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Her last show, Super Awesome World [dir. Rob Jones], which explores depression through video games and audience participation, won Summerhall’s Autopsy Award, and was nominated for the Scottish Arts Club Award […]
