These residencies of up to six weeks each are awarded to writers based in Scotland. They offer support to an established writer of poetry, fiction or drama at a critical point in their career, providing opportunities for networking and building connections with other artists and writers, as well as undisturbed and unstructured solitude.

At Cove Park Donny O’Rourke is working on some commissioned poems, as well as taking advantage of the setting and context of Cove Park to develop some new ideas.