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.
POETRY RESIDENTIAL
How can poetry be turned to protest, and how can words offer comfort to those who need it?
This course led by Harry Josephine Giles and Hannah Lavery with guest reader Roger Robinson is for anyone who’s interested in writing that meets the challenges of our times, whether as part of activist movements, as a way to deal with personal struggles, or simply as an honest response to the world. Includes workshops, discussion time and tutorials.
YEAR OF WRITING: SEASON 4
This is the final season for this iteration of A Year of Writing. We’d love to invite new writers to this season who want to dedicate time this summer to their writing. This summer season is about focusing on the writing, having a view of the project, setting goals and clearing the space to let the text live and breath and develop. It’s for anyone who has part of a full manuscript and wants to use the summer (and a supportive, knowledgeable group of writers) to write and push it towards completion.
BUILDING FICTIONAL WORLDS
Join award-winning novelist Liz Hyder online for a month to explore the joyful art of harnessing your imagination to build fictional worlds.
Find out how to unlock your wild imagination and use it for your storytelling in this fun and engaging course with four intensive workshops. Whether you’re an out-and-out fantasy writer, looking to create a dystopian tale, or simply wanting to dip your toe into world-building, this course is for you!
FICTION RESIDENTIAL
Michael Donkor and Ashley Hickson-Lovence invite you to join them for a glorious and generative week of serious play and playful seriousness on the page. New writers, and perhaps those who have taken some time away from their writing, may find this fiction course especially encouraging!
Includes workshops, discussion, tutorials and a guest reader event with poet and novelist Cecilia Knapp.