Below is a complete listing of our Church Cottage residents from 2002 to the present. You can view their photographs and comments on their residencies on the Residents’ Gallery page
Some residents have returned for brief periods and sometimes for Trust needs, such as a trustee staying briefly to give support.
| 2024 | ||
| 3/4th February – 1st March | Jessa Fairbrother, artist/writer | |
| 2nd/3rd March – 29th March | Kerry Andrews, composer, writer | |
| 31st March – 19th April | Angela Malone, artist | |
| 20th April – 31st May | Jane Williams, poet (Tasmania) | |
| 3rd – 17th June | Kate Strasdin, dress historian | |
| 22nd June – 19th July | Olivia Garro, writer (Coventry University appointment) | |
| 20th July – 3rd August | Trust’s time | |
| 2023 | ||
| 9th – 22nd December | Miranda Landgraf, writer | |
| 7th October – 8th December | Jo Cheetham, writer | |
| 21st August – 6th October | Fiona McIntyre, artist/printmaker | |
| 29th July – 18th August | Sarah Corbett, writer | |
| 15th – 28th July | Maggie Gee and Nick Rankin | |
| 15th April – 14th July | ACE Project ‘Open House’ Ten writers selected by Writing West Midlands for a week’s residency each: Valentina Alexander/ Leila Rasheed/ Amarjit Kaur/ Lorraine Mighty/ Jose Sunshine-Okoro/ Maeve Clark/ Abda Khan/ Nyla Nasser/ Lorna French/ Justina Hart | |
| 4th March – 7th April | Teia Sanina, Ukrainian writer | |
| 8th – 22nd February | Rosanna McGlone, writer | |
| 2022 | ||
| 4th December – 27th January 2023 | Audrey Osler, writer/scholar | |
| 2nd October – 2nd December | Vlad Naidiuk/ Oksana Birsan, Ukrainian couple | |
| 11th – 30th September | Judith Bovenseipen, anthropologist | |
| 14th August – 9th September | Stacey Moon Tracy, writer (Coventry University Appt) | |
| 30th July – 12th August | Maggie Gee and Nick Rankin | |
| 4th – 29th July | Pragya Agarwall, journalist/political writer (several separate visits) | |
| Last minute resident cancellations so we invited Timberlake Wertenbaker and Anna Shevchenko each for short periods during June | ||
| 1st – 27th May | Anne-Marie Piazza, musical theatre (MMD appt) | |
| 3rd – 26th April | Sheila Black, poet and advocate for disability | |
| 27th February – 25th March | Sarah Middleton, musical librettist (MMD appt) | |
| 1st – 25th February | Jennifer Steil, novelist | |
| 16th – 28th January | Cordelia O’Driscoll, musical theatre (MMD appt) | |
| 4th – 14th January | Mary Jane Baxter | |
| 2021 | ||
| 28th December – 3rd January | Elizabeth Speller | |
| 6th – 18th December | Catherine Richardson, cultural historian | |
| 14th – 26th November | Penny Black, translator/dramatist | |
| 31st October – 12th November | Caitlyn Burt, musical theatre (MMD appt) | |
| 30th August – 30th September | Marie-Louise Crawley, dance and history (Coventry University appt) | |
| 9th – 27th August | Susannah Pearse, musical librettist (MMD appt) | |
| 25th July – 6th August | Maggie Gee | |
| 8th – 23rd July | Elizabeth Speller | |
| 27th June – 4th July | Louise Ainsley, (MMD auction winner) | |
| 30th May – 25th June | Elizabeth Cook, prose fiction | |
| 2nd – 28th May | Tara Wilson, non-fiction writer | |
| 11th – 30th April | Carole Griffiths, modeller/artist (Coventry University appt) | |
| Early January Church Cottage was closed again due to Covid and remained empty until April | ||
| 2020 | ||
| 20th November – 2nd January | Elizabeth Speller, novelist | |
| 31st October – 14th November | Salley Vickers, novelist | |
| 3rd – 28th October | Anita Pati, poet | |
| 19th – 28th September | Anna Shevchenko, novelist | |
| 5th – 15th September | Elizabeth Speller, novelist | |
| 22nd August – 3rd September | Mary Jane Baxter, maker | |
| 6th – 19th August | Maggie Gee, novelist | |
| 20th – 31st July | Chino Odimba, playwright | |
| March – July…closed due to Covid pandemic | ||
| 9th – 17th March | Timberlake Wertenbaker …. left early due to Covid | |
| 29th February – 6th March | Julie Blake, Mercury Musical appointee | |
| 2nd – 28th February | Christine Valters Paintner, Ireland, Catholic theologian | |
| 5th – 31st January | Susan Vickerman, poet/translator | |
| 2019 | ||
| Empty for Christmas guests | ||
| 12th October – 14th December | Valerie Coffin Price, illustrator | |
| Empty for Persephone Press guests | ||
| 3rd – 30th September | Brandy Schillace (USA), medical ethics | |
| 18th – 30th August | Maggie Gee, novelist/poet | |
| 8th July – 16th August | Laura Joyce, novelist (Coventry University appt) | |
| 14th June – 6th July | Romalyn Ante, poet (SBT appt) | |
| 12th May – 12th June | Lotte Crawford, art historian (Coventry University appt) | |
| 8th February – 10th May | Mary Jane Baxter, journalist/milliner | |
| 2018 | ||
| Closed for building and renovation until February 2019 | ||
| 30th July – 30th September | Julia Copus, poet and biographer | |
| 9th – 29th July | Closed for renovation | |
| 14th June – 1st July | Astrid Alben, poet | |
| 6th – 13th June | Catherine Fox, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 28th April – 5th June | Curious partnership, performance artists | |
| 22nd – 26th April | Catherine Fox, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 3rd – 9th April | Jo Baker, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 3rd – 8th March | Lucy Durneen, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 20th February – 31st March | Erica Charalambous (Coventry University appt) | |
| 23rd January – 18th February | Mez Packer (Coventry University appt) | |
| 5th – 22nd January | Salley Vickers | |
| 2017 | ||
| 13th December – 3rd January | Natasha Davies, performance artist | |
| 12th November – 3rd December | Maria McCann, novelist | |
| 30th October – 9th November | Amanda Smythe, novelist | |
| 1st – 22nd October | Anna Shevchenko, novelist | |
| 28th August – 10th September | Teresa Howard, lyric playwright | |
| 16th – 26th August | Joan Bakewell, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 1st – 14th August | Maggie Gee, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 19th June – 18th July | Jessica Mehta, poet (SBT appointment) | |
| 4th – 17th June | Deborah Arnander,’Words and Women’ | |
| 2nd May – 3rd June | Natasha Davis, performance artist | |
| 24th – 30th April | Jill Dawson, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 17th – 22nd April | Nadia Fall, playwright | |
| 2nd – 16th April | Victoria Kelley, social historian | |
| 10th – 31st March | Salley Vickers, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 6th February – 7th March | Maria McCann, novelist Kiss and Part | |
| 3rd – 30th January | Solitaire Townsend, environmentalist | |
| 2016 | ||
| 12th November – 30th December | Timberlake Wertenbaker, playwright | |
| 24th October – 11th November | Kathleen Soriano, art historian | |
| 1st – 23rd October | Salley Vickers | |
| 1st – 30th September | Cindy Lynn Brown, poet (SBT appointment) | |
| 31st July – 29th August | Teresa Howard, lyric playwright | |
| 1st May – 14th June | Timberlake Wertenbaker, playwright | |
| 22nd – 25th April | Salley Vickers, novelist | |
| 1st – 21st April | Martine Bailey, novelist | |
| 28th – 31st March | Marion Morgan, musician | |
| 13th February – 25th March | Ellen Phethean, poet/playwright | |
| 8th – 11th February | Marion Morgan, musician | |
| 3rd January – 6th February | Helena McEwen, novelist/painter | |
| 2015 | ||
| 16th November – 2nd January | commercial rent to Michael Bywater | |
| 1st – 14th November | Susannah Pickering, poet/playwright | |
| 15th August – 30th October | Helena McEwen, novelist/painter | |
| 1st – 14th August | Elizabeth Speller, poet/novelist | |
| 1st – 31st July | Sally Goldsmith, poet (SBT appointment) | |
| 24th – 30th June | Jane Brown, biographer | |
| 24th May – 21st June | Patti Gaal-Holmes, performance/film-maker | |
| 29th April – 13th May | Elizabeth Speller, poet/novelist | |
| 30th March – 24th April | Joan Bakewell (see below) | |
| 8th – 28th March | Elizabeth Speller (see below) | |
| 1st February – 4th March | Jackie Bennett garden historian (SBT appointment) | |
| 2nd – 30th January | Elizabeth Speller poet/novelist | |
| 2014 | ||
| 7th October – 19th December | Teresa Howard, lyric theatre (Arts Council funded) musical adaptation of Pushkin’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ to be called ‘Eddie O’ for Hackney Empire Theatre 2015 and touring 2016 | |
| 14th September – 4th October | Joan Bakewell, journalist/broadcaster (see below) | |
| 8th August – 12th September | Patti Gaal-Holmes, artist/film maker: ‘A history of 1970s Experimental film: Britian’s decade of Diversity’, Palgrave Macmillan 2015 | |
| 11th July – 7th August | Jo Bell, poet, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust appointment; contributed to Poetry Festival and a new collection to be published by Nine Arches Press 2015 | |
| 8th June – 10th July | Jinny Webber, American scholar/novelist: research for third in a trilogy of novels about Elizabethan theatre (‘The Secret Player’, ‘Dark Venus’) Nebbadoon Press, California USA: 2015 | |
| 28th April – 28th May | Salley Vickers, novelist/journalist (see below) | |
| 23rd November – 30th December | Martine Bailey, novelist. Work on the second of two novels (first ‘An Appetite for Violets’ 2014), The Penny Heart’ 2015 Hodder and Stoughton UK and USA | |
| 5th August – 20th November | Salley Vickers, novelist/journalist. Short stories, ‘The Boy who Could See Death’, Viking Penguin 2015 | |
| 2nd July – 1st August | Wendy Cope, poet, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust appointment, contributed to the Poetry Festival | |
| 24th May – 30th June | Quincy Whitney, musicologist from USA; ‘The Luthier- A Violinmaker’s Crescendo’ a biography of instrument maker, Carleen Maley Hutchinson’, University Press of New England, 2016 | |
| 28th April – 11th May | Val Horsler, ‘Round the Square’ editor/research at request of HHT for our own publication 2014 | |
| 5th January – 29th March | Teresa Howard, lyric theatre; musical adaptation of Dodie Smith’s novel ‘I Capture the Castle’ for Watford Palace Theatre 2015 plus touring 2016 (Arts Council funding) | |
| 2012 | ||
| 19th September – 21st November | Kitty Fitzgerald, novelist/stories, ‘Miranda’s Shadow’, Iron Press 2013 | |
| 2nd – 15th September | Val Horsler, ‘Round the Square’ editor/research at request of HHT for our own publication 2014 | |
| 11th – 25th August | Helen Stanton, theologian/biographer: (see below) | |
| 30th June – 7th August | Kapka Kassabova, poet/writer Shakespeare Birthplace Trust appointment, contributed to the Poetry Festival | |
| 24th May – 28th June | Natasha Davis, performance artist: worked on ‘Internal Terrains’ commissioned by Colchester Arts Centre and performed 2012 and recently in USA and elsewhere | |
| 11th February – 23rd May | Mary Jane Baxter, journalist/maker: ‘The Modern Girl’s Guide to Hatmaking’, Kyle Books, 2013 | |
| 4th January – 10th February | Val Horsler, historian, ‘Guide to Holy Trinity, Stratford’, to accompany the history (see below) | |
| 2011 | ||
| 14th – 23rd December | Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, yoga writer (see below) | |
| 24th November – 11th December | Elizabeth Speller, poet/novelist ‘At Break of Day’ Virago 2013, USA Pegasus Books retitled ‘The First of July’ 2014 | |
| 1st – 23rd November | Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, yoga writer (see below) | |
| 10th September – 20th October | Helen Stanton, theologian/biographer ‘For Peace and For Good: A History of the Community of St Francis’: Canterbury Press 2015 | |
| 16th July – 7th September | Anita Mason, novelist: no recorded outcome | |
| 6th – 15th July | Uma Dinsmore-Tuli, yoga writer: ‘Yoni Shanti: a woman’s guide to power and freedom through yoga and tantra’: Yoga Words, 2014 | |
| 9th – 30th June | Curious, pair residency, Helen Paris, Leslie Hill, performed ‘Avon’ (see below) | |
| 9th March – 4th June | Gill Plain, literary/film historian: ‘War, Postwar and Peace: a literary history of 1940s’, Edinburgh University Press 2013 | |
| 8th January – 6th March | Jan Dunn, film script writer: no recorded outcome | |
| 2010 | ||
| 31st October – 30th December | Jane Brown, biographer/garden historian ‘Dorothy: a biographical essay’ printed privately (subsequently expanded into full biography of Dorothy Elmhirst Whitney, 2015) | |
| 1st September – 30th October | Lara Platman, photo journalist, ‘Harris Tweed: from land to street’ Frances Lincoln 2011 | |
| 3rd July – 30th August | Anjum Malik, television script writer no recorded outcome | |
| 8th May – 3rd July | Anna Shevchenko, novelist ‘The Game’, Headline Publishing 2012 | |
| 22nd April – 4th May | Ruth Thomas, novelist; ‘The Home Corner’ book of short stories’, Faber and Faber 2011 | |
| 2009 | ||
| October 2009 – April 2010 | building work on Church Cottage | |
| 30th August – 2nd October | Gerry Pilgrim, performance artist, RSC appointment (see below) | |
| 2nd August – 29th August | Val Horsler, historian, SBT appointment ‘Shakespeare’s Church: a parish for the world’ Third Millenium publishing, London 2010 | |
| 2nd June – 31st July | Curious, performance partnership, Helen Paris and Leslie Hill, RSC appointment, prepared ‘Avon’ a performance event enacted on the River Avon at Stratford: also photography exhibition at RSC Gallery, ‘Fourteen Lines of Love’ summer 2009 | |
| 4th January – 15th March | Geraldine Pilgrim, performance artist, RSC appointment, ‘Handbags’ performance at RSC 2009 | |
| 2008 | ||
| 1st October – 31st December | Sarah Burton, biographer/novelist, novel manuscript ‘H’, currently unpublished | |
| 10th August – 30th September | Jane Hill, art historian:completed ‘The Sculpture of Gertrude Hermes’, Lund Humphries 2011 | |
| 1st – 27th July | Louise Foxcroft, medical/social historian ‘Hot Flushes, Cold Science: history of the modern menopause’, Granta Books 2009 | |
| 1st April – 29th June | Frances Donnelly, broadcaster/novelist no published outcome | |
| 1st January – 30th March | Elizabeth Speller, poet/novelist ‘The Return of Captain John Emmett’, Virago 2011 | |
| 2002 to end 2007 | ||
| June 2005 – June 2007 | Elspeth Sandys, novelist from New Zealand completed a novel, ‘The Names of Things’ a novel about Bernard Shaw, remains unpublished ES became an ‘Officer of the Order of New Zealand’ whilst in residence (equivalent to OBE) | |
| June 2002 – June 2004 | Jessica Berens, journalist/novelist Novel, ‘The Daughter of Ezekial’ unpublished | |