As part of Kim Squirrell’s summer 2023 Maritime residency at Quay Words, she has created a poetry & paper art trail around the Quayside and Canal Basin. This trail celebrates the ships and boats that have sailed into and out of Exeter, and the people of the quay and canal who work to support and…

We were thrilled to host Sophie as our summer 2022 writer-in-residence exploring the Maritime theme. Here she shares her commissioned poem with us. Index of Exeter Quay/ From the blue door, I beckon 1. It’s here that I first read: Exeter is considered to have lost its route to the sea. 2. A woman is…

Naomi Westerman, Quay Words summer 2021 writer-in-residence writes about her time at Exeter Custom House.

Quay Words and English PEN international writer-in-residence, Efemia Chela tells us about the transportive power of writing to help us explore new places and how she approached her digital residency.

Patrick Gale shares his thoughts on space to write in his Quay Words residency blog post.

Quay Words’ Summer 2020 digital writer-in-residence, Martyn Waites talks about his experience.

Check out Martyn Waites’ recommended crime fiction picks – taken from his ‘history of crime writing talk’.

Poet Tjawangwa Dema was Quay Words Summer digital writer-in-residence during August. Here, we share her Quay Words commissioned poem, ‘Complicating Fragments or You Are Here’ .

Tjawangwa Dema was our summer digital writer-in-residence from mid July- mid August. In the last week of her residency, TJ reflected with a personal letter to the City of Exeter.

Here, Quay Words Summer digital writer-in-residence Tjawangwa Dema considers what it means to experience a place and how this will impacted on her residency.