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.
Claire Wilson is a crime writer from central Scotland. Her debut novel, Five by Five, won the inaugural Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writer Prize and was released in August 2024. The novel has since been shortlisted for the Specsavers CrimeFest debut, the Capital Crime Fingerprint Award and the Bloody Scotland debut prize. Five by Five […]
Callum McSorley is a writer based in Glasgow whose short stories have appeared in Gutter Magazine, Monstrous Regiment and New Writing Scotland. His debut novel Squeaky Clean (2023) – inspired by his years working at a car wash in Glasgow’s East End – garnered praise from the likes of Chris Brookmyre, Peter James and Kevin […]
The recipient of Cove Park’s first Loch Long Crime Writing Residency is Caro Carver. This new fully funded residency is aimed at Scotland-based writers developing new work in crime fiction. Caro Carver lives in Inverclyde, Scotland with her husband and four children. She is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, teaches for […]