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.

Manchester born Sadie McKenzie is a graduate of the MA Creative Writing course at Birkbeck College.  She is completing her first novel, Circular Breathing, a tale of drugs, death and deliverance set on a London council estate. Her previous work has been published in The Mechanics Institute Review Sadie McKenzie won the 2012 Sophie Warne Memorial Essay prize at Birkbeck.