Open Residencies — Autumn Writers Week

Open to writers working in any genre, the 2025 Autumn Writers Week is designed to support both individual exploration and collective inspiration. Residents benefit from dedicated time and space to write, reflect, and connect with peers in a supportive and stimulating environment.

This residency culminates in a reading, writing workshop, and group dinner with acclaimed poet and author Michael Pedersen. The 2025 in-kind placement was awarded to Glasgow-based actor and writer Titana Muthui.

View of Cowal Peninsula, Autumn (photography, Tracey Bloxham).

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 […]

Autumn Writers Week

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 […]

Autumn Writers Week

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, […]

Autumn Writers Week

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 […]

Autumn Writers Week

Views of a lush landscape in hues of green, orange, and brown, during autumn. Through ferns and bracken, there is the hills of the Cowal Peninsula.

Chloe Ling

Chloe Ling is a Cantonese-American writer and poet based in New York City. Shaped by a surrealist sensibility, her work explores the range of life, love, and loss, capturing both childlike wonder and the right of all to dream. Chloe holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Southern California (2020) and a Master […]

Autumn Writers Week

Darcie Springall

Darcie Springall is a poet, writer, journalist, and editor based in Edinburgh. She writes poetry that explores love, loss, and transformation, capturing the tension between yearning, acceptance, and deliverance. Her work gives voice to hidden emotions, celebrates lived experiences, and chronicles compassion, reverence, and awe within the human journey. An award-winning amateur photographer (2025 European […]

Autumn Writers Residency

Adam Vaughn

Adam Vaughn (AV) is an Edinburgh-based writer, screenwriter, and teacher from Connecticut. They completed their Creative Writing MSc in 2021, serving as the Head Prose Editor for the From Arthur’s Seat anthology. They have placed in numerous screenwriting contests, notably as a short-listed finalist in the ScreenCraft Comedy Competition in 2020. AV is currently undertaking a Creative […]

Autumn Writers Week

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Autumn Writers Week

Deadline: 18 August 2025

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