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.

Jen Hadfield’s third poetry collection, Byssus,  was published by Picador in 2014. currently teaches Creative Writing at Glasgow University, and has dedicated this year to outing various projects that have been bubbling away on the back-burner. Her stay at Cove Park will give her a chance to work on a collection of creative non-fiction; she also hopes 2018 will be the year to bring a picture book about rainbows and a series of cast, feral porcelain apples to fruition. Jen is building a house in Shetland, very slowly.