Cove Park’s Literature Residency supports an established writer based in Scotland or the UK 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. Recent Literature Residents include Ellen Aaku, Marion Coutts, Helen Cross, Gerry Cambridge, Mikey Cuddihy, Rachel Cusk, Jennie Erdal, Jessica Fox, John Glenday, Rachel Holmes, Russell Celyn Jones, Tom Pow, Jess Richards, Jo Shapcott, Zoe Strachan, Louise Welsh, Nicola White and Susan Wicks.

Linda Cracknell is a writer of prose and radio drama as well as a teacher of creative writing at home and abroad. Her short story collections include Life Drawing and The Searching Glance. In 2013 a novel set on the shores of Caithness, Call of the Undertow, was published, followed in 2014 by a non-fiction essay collection about walking, Doubling Back: Ten paths trodden in memory, described as a fusion of travel writing, memoir and literary meditation. It was broadcast in abridged form as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. She is also editor of A Wilder Vein, a non-fiction anthology on the wild places of Britain and Ireland and writes regularly for the WalkHighlands online magazine. She lives in Highland Perthshire.