GENEVIEVE CARVER
The 2023 Jessie Kesson Fellowship takes place alongside the Here and Now International Residency.
Genevieve Carver is a writer working in poetry, fiction and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her first poetry collection, A Beautiful Way to be Crazy (Verve Poetry Press 2020) was based on a gig theatre show with a live band highlighting female experiences in the music industry, and her most recent pamphlet Landsick (Broken Sleep Books 2023) explores connectivity and discord between humans and the natural world. Her poetry has appeared in journals including Mslexia, The White Review, The North, The London Magazine, Magma and Poetry News. Genevieve is interested in arts-science collaborations and is currently working with ecologists at the Lighthouse Field Station in Cromarty, writing in response to their research studying dolphin, porpoise and seabirds in Northern Scotland and Orkney. In 2022 she won The Moth Nature Writing Prize for this work, judged by Max Porter.
2023 Jessie Kesson Finalist Fellow
In 2023, the judges also awarded an additional finalist residency to Peter Wallis. Peter took part in a residency at Moniack Mhor in early 2024.
Peter Wallis is a Hawthornden Fellow, a prize-winner in the National Poetry Competition, submissions Editor for the U.K. charity Poems in the Waiting Room, and author of a pamphlet Articles of Twinship (Bare Fiction, 2015). The Hippocrates Press has recently published his first full collection, Half Other, which Michael Hulse describes as, “a triumph of the human spirit”.