Cove Park’s International Literature Residency supports an international writer 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, career stages and nationalities. Previous International Writers include Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, Fred D’Aguiar,  Christos Tsiolkas and Yelena Moskovich.

Heather O’Neill is the author of three novels, ‘Lullabies for Little Criminals’, ‘The Girl Who Was Saturday Night’ and ‘The Lonely Hearts Hotel’. She is also the author of a book of short stories, a poetry collection and a screenplay. In Canada, her work has been awarded the Danuta Gleed Award and the Hugh MacLennan Prize, in addition to winning the CBC Canada Reads competition. She has also been shortlisted for many prizes, including the Orange Prize and the Giller Prize. She has contributed to such publications as the Guardian and the New York Times Magazine. Born and raised in Montreal, she resides there today with her daughter.