Residency

Claire Wilson

Duration

27 October – 9 November 2025

Claire Wilson (photography, Derek Harley)

Residency Types

Awarded Loch Long Crime Writing

Artforms

Literature

Claire Wilson ↗

Image: Claire Wilson (photography, Derek Harley)

Claire Wilson is a crime writer from central Scotland. Her debut novel, Five by Five, won the inaugural Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writer Prize and was released in August 2024. The novel has since been shortlisted for the Specsavers CrimeFest debut, the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and the Bloody Scotland debut prize. Five by Five is based on her time working as an Intelligence Analyst in a Scottish prison. Claire will spend her residency working on book two about female offenders.

Launched in 2024, the Loch Long Crime Writing Residency is made possible with support from Cove Park’s Patrons programme. This programme builds upon our ongoing commitment to the development of new writing in Scotland.

Fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, playwrights, and literary translators have been a key part of our programme since its launch in 2000. Cove Park supports research and the development of new work, hosting those writing in all languages and paying particular attention to Gaelic and Scots. Former residents include Margaret Atwood, Ann Carson, Rachel Cusk, Fred D’Aguiar, Rodge Glass, Rody Gorman, Alasdair Gray, Jeda Pearl Lewis, Hannah Lavery, Kirsty Logan, Rona Macdonald, Heather Parry, Michael Pedersen, Andrew Rubens, Geetanjali Shree, Nicola White, and Louise Welsh, amongst many others.

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