During her Spring 2023 residency at Quay Words on the theme of ‘Threads’, Davina Quinlivan wrote this long prose piece, The Map Makers’ Daughters, and three poems which you can read here. Taking inspiration from Davina’s work, letterpress printer Jeremy Speck produced a set of special prints which are on display at Exeter Custom House…

During her Spring 2023 residency at Quay Words on the theme of ‘Threads’, Davina Quinlivan wrote the below three poems, and a long prose piece, The Map Makers’ Daughters. Taking inspiration from Davina’s work, letterpress printer Jeremy Speck produced a set of special prints which are on display at Exeter Custom House in early 2024….

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’ .