In 2014, Scotland will be hosting the Commonwealth Games. This residency series, supported by Creative Scotland’s Creative Futures brings artists to Scotland from the African Commonwealth during the UK’s Olympic year with the aim of creating cultural links between the two events and forging new artistic relationships into 2014. The residencies are between four and six weeks long and are for professional artists in mid-career  to develop their own projects within the supportive interdisciplinary environment of Cove Park.

Brian Chikwava is a London-based Zimbabwean writer. His short story Seventh Street Alchemy was awarded the Caine Prize in 2004. Brian’s work has appeared in short story collections published by Weaver Press, Jacana, Picador, Umuzi and in the journals Moving Worlds, Literary Review, World Literature Today, Wasafiri, Granta, The Literary Encyclopaedia and others. Some of his stories have also been broadcast on BBC Radios 3 and 4 and World Service. He is a former Charles Pick Fellowship holder at the University of East Anglia and has been a creative writing tutor at City University London. Brian’s debut novel, Harare North, was published in 2009 by Jonathan Cape; a French translation was published by Éditions Zoé in 2011. He is currently working on a second.