This partnership with University College Birkbeck in London brings an outstanding emerging writer, and winner of Birkbeck’s Sophie Warne Memorial essay prize to Cove Park for four weeks. This is a unique opportunity for a new writer to have their first professional residency and work on their own project among other professional artists in Cove Park’s interdisciplinary environment.

Genevieve Herr graduated with a First in English and History of Art from UCL in 2002. She has since worked in children’s publishing, first at Walker Books and now at Scholastic where she is a Commissioning Editor on the fiction list.
She began her Masters in Creative Writing at Birkbeck in 2010 and was awarded a Distinction. Her short stories have appeared in MIR and Writer’s Hub and she is working on her first novel.