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Awarded — Loch Long Crime Writing

Launched in 2024, the Loch Long Crime Writing Residency is made possible with support from Cove Park’s Patrons programme. This programme builds upon our ongoing commitment to the development of new writing in Scotland.

Fiction and non-fiction writers, poets, playwrights, and literary translators have been a key part of our programme since its launch in 2000. Cove Park supports research and the development of new work, hosting those writing in all languages and paying particular attention to Gaelic and Scots. Former residents include Margaret Atwood, Ann Carson, Rachel Cusk, Fred D’Aguiar, Rodge Glass, Rody Gorman, Alasdair Gray, Jeda Pearl Lewis, Hannah Lavery, Kirsty Logan, Rona Macdonald, Heather Parry, Michael Pedersen, Andrew Rubens, Geetanjali Shree, Nicola White, and Louise Welsh, amongst many others.

a misty, dreich view of Loch Long and the hills of the Cowal Peninsula.
View of Loch Long from Cove Park (photography, Alan Dimmick).