Liz Hyder was the joint winner of the Emerging Writer Award this year, along with Hanna Randall. Liz has recently found a publisher for her book Bearmouth at Puskin Press. We thought we’d have a chat with Liz and ask her about it. Tell us a bit about yourself. Are…
Rue Baldry was the winner of the Emerging Writer Award last year. Here, she writes about her experiences throughout the year. This was originally posted on Rue’s website. I have come to the end of my year as the The Bridge/Moniack Mhor Emerging Writer. It has been amazing. I really…
Guest post by musician Phil Langran on his experiences at Moniack Mhor. In February 2017 I travelled from home in Nottingham to attend my first Moniack Mhor song-writing course with with Kathryn Williams, Roddy Woomble and Rachel Sermanni Like many others, I arrived full of that woozy ‘oh goodness what…
In April 2016, Heather Fyson attended a songwriting retreat here at Moniack Mhor, now she has just released her first album. Heather talks here about how her experiences at Moniack Mhor have helped her shape her work. A songwriting week at Moniack Mhor with Karine Polwart & Findlay Napier, Mike…
For the second year in a row, Moniack Mhor had the pleasure of supplying the first prize in the Tarbert Book Festival writing competition. The eventual winner was Sylvia Hehir with her short story Oban – The Perfect Destination. Sylvia has given us kind permission to share the story with…
Earlier this year, our Mairi Hedderwick Travel Writing Bursary was won by Thomas MacColl. Thomas attended the Travel Writing course in September this year. He has kindly written this piece for us about his experiences here. In the first few days of this year, as Edinburgh huddled against sleet,…
Donna Booth was the winner of the 2017 Mairi Hedderwick Writing for Children Bursary. This blog post originally appeared on Donna’s own website HERE. We have published it here with her kind permission. I’ve always wanted to be a writer. Since all my books were picture books. Unfortunately, secondary…
Author Merryn Glover is one of the Moniack Mhor Alumni. With celebrations around the 70th Anniversary of India’s Independence about to commence, Merryn’s novel A House Called Askival is receiving fresh attention. We caught up with Merryn to ask her a few questions about the book and her writing in…
Last week we held our Starting out in Poetry retreat with tutors Jo Shapcott and Maura Dooley. Helen Reid-Thomas attended the course and wrote this poem about her experiences here. She has kindly allowed us to share it with you all. The journey 1 Smirr and marram-grass; the piu-piu…
Claire Askew was the 2017 recipient of our Jessie Kesson Fellowship, and was writer in residence at Moniack Mhor during the month of March. We asked Claire a few questions about her time here. When did you first find out about the Jessie Kesson Fellowship? I’d been aware that it was…