Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship

Gavin Wallace Fellowship: Attached to Land

Fruitmarket is delighted to be chosen as the host of the 2025 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship – a year-long writing residency which supports Scottish-based, mid-career writers to develop new work. 

The Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship is an opportunity for a mid-career writer to spend a year dedicated to producing their own new writing, gaining support and inspiration from the host organisation. Every year, the Fellowship has a broad theme to guide the relationship between the writer, their work, and the host. The Fruitmarket’s chosen theme is ‘Attached to Land: Mutual accountability within environmental permacrisis’.

Fruitmarket is inviting Scottish based writers – writing in English, Gaelic or Scots – to apply for the residency which will begin March 2025. Alongside a stipend of £24,000 to support them through their 12-month residency, Fruitmarket will work with the chosen Fellow to plan a structured year of support and activity, designed to help move their practice forward in the right way for them and to share their work with Fruitmarket’s audiences.

The environmental focus of our theme takes inspiration from Fruitmarket’s 2025–2026 programme including exhibitions from Native American artist Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith and Scotland-based artist Ilana Halperin. Working through the year could involve engagement with the existing Fruitmarket programmes; opportunity to plan public events/readings/sharings during their time with us; and the opportunity of a discrete publication or film that would document the research and writing processes of the fellowship. Fruitmarket is committed to ensuring accessibility across the Fellowship and will support any writer to take part in this opportunity on their own terms, whether remotely or digitally. 

Deadline:  Monday 17th February 5pm

For further information about the Residency and how to apply, click here