NURTURING WRITERS & WRITING
BURSARY SUPPORT
Young Writers
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
OUR BEGINNINGS
Moniack Mhor is Scotland’s National Writing Centre. Based in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, we run courses in a range of genres tutored by some of the finest authors in the UK and beyond. With workshops and one to one tutorials, our courses provide an atmosphere to fully immerse yourself in your writing. The centre also offers writing retreats providing time and space, free from distractions, where you will find yourself part of a nurturing writing community. Other support offered by Moniack Mhor includes awards, bursaries, professional residencies to develop works in progress and a programme for young writers.
NEURODIVERGENT WRITING
Using their own work and the work of fellow neurodivergent writers and thinkers, Kate Fox and Elspeth Wilson will help participants explore how neurodiversity can be found in literary forms from poetry to fiction and creative non -fiction -and look at how neurodivergent writers of all levels of life experience can play with, challenge or find a sense of home within these forms.
CRIME WRITING
This course, with Michael J Malone and Caro Ramsay, offers an opportunity to craft compelling crime fiction. An immersive course to take you from blank page to polishing the final draft with entertaining workshops on the nuts and bolts for creating chilling villains, twisty plots and perfect prose.
POETRY TRANSLATION
Join Scotland's Makar, Peter Mackay, in this online masterclass that explores poetry that lives in-between languages, whether tip-toeing along the edges of those languages or jumping deep into etymological poems. You don’t have to be fluent in more than one language; but it will help if you love to mess around in the nooks and crannies of dictionaries.
SHORT FICTION
This week will be a deep dive into a continuum of approaches, from the plotted to the subversive, from the serious to the mischievous. We provide you with craft guidance, mini-lectures, writing exercises and tutorials, all intended to equip you with the right questions to assess that short in progress. We’ll explore what it means to make people especially for short stories; how to apply brevity and singularity; and help you edit for beauty and clarity.
HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE
The longlist for the Highland Book Prize 2025 has been announced by the Highland Society of London and Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre.
FIRST STAGES SONGWRITING
Join Kathryn and Michele, acclaimed singer songwriters and producers in a session that focusses on co-writing. Come along to this nurturing online workshop and discover the power of collaboration in songs. We’ll make use of breakout spaces and group working to generate seeds of ideas for new work. This friendly session would suit anyone who is new to making songs or who might already be writing but would like to learn approaches to working with a fellow writer. No experience or instrument needed!