Residencies
Michael Pedersen
Michael Pedersen: is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author, the Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University, and Edinburgh’s Makar (Poet Laureate). His prose debut, Boy Friends, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 – it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at Scotland’s National Book Awards. The Cat Prince […]
Titana Muthui
Titana Muthui is an actor and writer who writes with urgency, clarity, and conviction. A Black woman and recovering alcoholic, she creates work that is inseparable from her lived experience. Storytelling has always been her way of surviving the world, but sobriety sharpened her understanding of just how much representation matters—not only for visibility, but […]
CD Boyland
CD Boyland [he/him] is a Glasgow-based poet, visual poet and editor. His debut full-length collection ‘Mephistopheles’ (Blue Diode, 2023) was nominated for a Scottish National Book Award. His pamphlets are ‘User Stories’ (Stewed Rhubarb, 2020) and ‘Vessel’ (Red Squirrel, 2022). He has published two collections of visual poetry; ‘Smc_’ (Steel Incisors, 2020) and ‘Ptchdk_’ (Trickhouse, […]
Jessica Barnfield
Jessica is a fiction writer based in Edinburgh. Her debut novel was Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize Novel Award in 2022, and she has since been shortlisted and longlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Award. Her short story ‘Subsidence’ was runner-up in the 2025 Harper’s Bazaar Short Story […]