Who we are
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Who we are
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Hamish MacDonald, Centre Director, is a writer based in Inverness. Published in fiction and poetry, he has also written several plays which have toured in Scotland and abroad and has written comedy and drama for radio and television. Hamish was the first Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway (2003-2006). He writes in English and Scots. He is a founder and joint artistic director of the multi award-winning Dogstar Theatre Company who have taken their work from the Scottish Highlands to Eastern Europe to Australia. This is Hamish's second stint at Moniack Mhor Writers Centre, where the ancestral ghosts of 1831 have conspired to draw him back.
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Cynthia Rogerson, Programming Director. Cynthia has been a director at Moniack Mhor since 2004. She has had two novels published, shortlised for the Saltire Prize and Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year. Her short stories have appeared in many anthologies and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In 2008 she won the V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize. Originally from San Francisco, Cynthia has lived in the Highlands for more than thirty years.
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Lyndy Batty, Administrator, was doing just fine treading the boards of theatres in England and her beloved Scotland when she foolishly thought it might be more fun to stay home and have babies. Twenty five years later she found herself drawn to this beautiful place in the hills and managed to convince the then directors that she should become one of the team. Four years later and she is still experiencing the ups and downs of an Arvon centre; battling through the wind, rain and snow in winter and marvelling at all that sky in summer. Not a writer (so she says) but passionate about literature and one never knows. Perhaps she should go on an Arvon course!
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