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, Helen Cross, Gerry Cambridge, Rachel Cusk, Jennie Erdal, John Glenday, Russell Celyn Jones, Tom Pow, Jess Richards, Jo Shapcott, Zoe Strachan, Louise Welsh, Nicola White.

Marion Coutts is an artist and writer. She works with a range of material forms: found objects, digital video, film, drawing, sound, text and photography. Her first book, The Iceberg won the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 and was shortlisted for the Costa Non-Fiction Award and the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Her work has been exhibited widely, including Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Chisenhale Gallery, London; Foksal Gallery, Warsaw; Helsinki Kunsthalle and Arnolfini, Bristol. She has held a number of Fellowships. She was a Research Fellow at Norwich School of Art and Design 2007-09. She held the Kettle’s Yard fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge in 2003 and the Momart Fellowship at Tate Liverpool in 2001. In 1999 she was a Rome Scholar at The British School at Rome.

She writes occasionally on Art for Intelligent Life. She has recently done podcasts for 5×15 and Little Atoms. She is a Senior Lecturer in Art at Goldsmiths and lives in London.