NURTURING WRITERS & WRITING
"Moniack Mhor is a wonderfully inspiring and regenerative space." "Spending time at Moniack Mhor made such a shift in my writing and my confidence as a writer."
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BURSARY SUPPORT
"Moniack Mhor supports writers from all backgrounds and from all walks of life. Our bursary programme provides access for those who may find fees a barrier to joining a residential or online course or retreat, or taking part in mentoring."
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Young Writers
"To have someone take my work seriously and help me try and improve was a real confidence boost"
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RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
"The team at Moniack Mhor, with great care and thoughtfulness, have not only created a magical and functional space for the imagination, but also a refuge for genuine human connections.”
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OUR BEGINNINGS
"Come on a journey to 1993: crofting tales linger but now the smell of paint is fresh in the air, the final pictures are being hung on stone walls and there is frantic unpacking of auction house crockery and cutlery. We welcome our first course, led by Liz Lochead, Roger McGough and the late Aonghas MacNeacail"
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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.
HISTORICAL MYSTERY FICTION
This course will examine key aspects of writing such fiction starting with how to take historical fact and bend it to the service of exciting, well plotted mysteries.
YOUNG WRITERS' CAFÉ
In this workshop we will talk about different types of creative non-fiction, the vast potential of hybrid and experimental (and traditional) essaying and talk about the questions about how and why we might write non-fiction, essay, memoir.
1 SPACE LEFT: HYBRID COURSE
The summer season of our Year of Writing is a residential course led by Elizabeth Reeder and top and tailed by two online sessions.
NARRATIVE NON-FICTION
How do we translate personal experience into prose which makes the reader feel as if they were there with you? Join Neil Ansell for this online masterclas on 5 August to find out!
WRITE HIGHLANDS BURSARY
Fully-funded non-residential places on some of our upcoming tutored courses. For all writers living in the Highland Council area.
MAKING FICTION
Whether you are a short story writer or a novelist, this general fiction tutored course is for you. We’ll look at all the main areas of the craft of fiction: character, sense of place, dialogue, point of view…