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.
FESTIVAL! 24 MAY, 12 to 8pm
Celebrating Creativity and Care: Festival 2025
Please join us at Inverness Creative Academy (Wasps) for an exciting Festival of images, words and music!
This special free event will celebrate the legacy of Moniack Mhor’s 3-year Creativity and Care Programme. From 12 to 8pm, includes exhibition, workshops, poetry readings, live music performances, film premiere and much more! Please register for workshops via weblink.
EWA WINNER
Congratulations to Amy Luxton who was awarded this year's The Bridge Awards Emerging Writer Award! 
We also want to congratulate the runner up for the prize, David Cochrane, as well as three additional writers for being Highly Commended: Emanuelle Degli Esposti, Catrin Kemp and Rachel Anderson.
We're also delighted that this is the 10-year anniversary of the Emerging Writer Award!
We also want to congratulate the runner up for the prize, David Cochrane, as well as three additional writers for being Highly Commended: Emanuelle Degli Esposti, Catrin Kemp and Rachel Anderson.
We're also delighted that this is the 10-year anniversary of the Emerging Writer Award!
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 led by writer Liz Hyder. Over four intensive workshops, we’ll explore concepts and practicalities for your world-building, how character shapes our view of fictional worlds, what to leave in – and out! – of your stories, and how immersive language can bring your worlds to life.
SCOTS COORSE
This taucht retreat is for awbody wha’s ever wantit tae or wha’s a’ready warkin tae scrieve sangs, poems or stories in the Scots leid. Baird Hannah Rarity an makar Billy Letford will haud wan-tae-wan tutorials wi ye ower the week tae gie ye a haun creatin new wark in Scots. The lave o the time will be yours tae explore whit ye can dae wi the Scots leid, readin Scots buiks in Moniack Mhor’s leebraries, an communin wi ither coorse participants wha are scrievin in Scots an aw.
MYTH: PROSE AND VERSE
ONE TWIN ROOM SPACE LEFT!
The folk tales, fairytales and myths of our ancestors have inspired writers, poets and storytellers for generations. In this course we will explore strategies to weave them into modern tales, novels and poetry. We will be drawing on Celtic myth, fairy lore and European collections such as Grimm.
LATE JUNE RETREAT
ONLY ONE SPACE LEFT!! Whether you’re up early or late to bed, your creativity will benefit from a wander through the woods or along the single-track roads. Let the natural environment around the centre inspire your writing.