In February 2019 Cove Park was awarded funding from British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland to develop a new residency programme produced in collaboration with partners based in EU nations. The aim of this programme is to maintain and develop cultural partnerships between Scotland and EU nations at a pivotal moment in the cultural landscape […]
Lesley Wilson is Associate Artist at Perth Theatre and an award-winning playwright who lives in Perthshire. Her work has been read and performed at Perth Theatre, The Traverse, The Tron, Birnam Arts and Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Lesley was mentored in 2012 by Playwrights’ Studio Scotland and her writing has been shortlisted for The Kenneth Branagh […]
Elizabeth Barrett’s poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She is the author of three collections: Walking on Tiptoe (Staple First Editions, 1998; re-issued by Bluechrome Press, 2007), The Bat Detector (Wrecking Ball Press, 2005) and A Dart of Green and Blue (Arc Publications, 2010). Elizabeth has been the recipient of various prizes […]
Jane is a writer of fiction based in north Perthshire. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Bridport prize and commended in The White Review & Manchester Fiction prize; others have been published in New Writing Scotland and Mslexia. She is currently working on her novel in-progress ‘Cutting the Roses’. The manuscript has been […]
Hsiang-Ying Kuo (born 1981) is a writer and translator based in Taiwan. This residency is part of our Literature and Translation programme and is made possible with support from the Cultural Division of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK. The residency will allow Hsiang-Ying Kuo to finalise a new project initiated in January 2019: translating […]
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, […]
This residency is offered to a writer based in Scotland who may not yet have published a work but demonstrates exceptional promise. It is an opportunity to develop a work in progress and to meet and work alongside established artists across all disciplines. Jeda Pearl is a Scottish writer & poet. Inspired by her Jamaican […]