Half-way through my four-week residency at Moniack Mhor, I sent an email to my best friend. ‘Dearest Irene,’ I wrote: ‘I am very well. The walls of my room are covered in wood panels and my desk is facing a window, which is facing the valley.’ I assumed Irene’s week,…
Andrew is one of 13 committee members leading the Youth-Led Fund, a project funded by Creative Scotland and facilitated by Moniack Mhor. The fund is now closed, but you can read more about what it looks like here. As the taxi rumbled round a corner, I caught my first glimpse…
My name is Courtney and I am a 28 year old Community Theatre Practitioner living in Glasgow. When I was awarded the Discretionary Fund to get a sewing machine, I was so excited! I have been sewing for about a year now but before receiving this grant I had very…
Moniack Mhor will be holding their Annual General Meeting and Fourth Quarterly Meeting of the Board on Monday 17th March 2025 at 6.00pm at Moniack Mhor, Teavarran, Kiltarlity, IV4 7HT. The AGM section of the meeting is open to the public; if you would like to attend please contact us…
Verb Wellington and Moniack Mhor received over 75 applications for the inaugural Island to Island residency exchange, offered in collaboration with British Council New Zealand and the Pacific, and Edinburgh International Book Festival. “The calibre of applications was incredibly high,” says Verb founder Claire Mabey. “It’s a sign of how…
Verb Wellington, Te-Whanganui-a-tara, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre, invite applications for Island to Island, a residency exchange supported by The British Council New Zealand and the Pacific for established writers working in creative non-fiction, fiction, or long-form poetry. Submissions are open from 25th March –…
Now in our thirtieth year, Moniack Mhor is seeking to improve the existing provision of spaces to better serve our current and future programme. This amounts to improving accessibility, bringing all staff onto the site, and creating a new library / classroom that could be used for writing and teaching…
Moniack Mhor will be holding their Annual General Meeting and Fourth Quarterly Meeting of the Board on Friday 1st March 2024 at 3.00pm at Moniack Mhor, Teavarran, Kiltarlity, IV4 7HT. The AGM section of the meeting is open to the public; if you would like to attend please contact us…
Shasta Ali, writer, poet and anti-racism campaigner, was one of the recipients of the 2022 Edwin Morgan Trust X Moniack Mhor Bursary Awards. Here, she shares a little of her writing journey and her experience at Moniack Mhor: I started writing as a response to grief which was tightening its…
Heather Parry answers one of the most common questions we get from writers preparing applications for the Emerging Writer Award: how do you prepare a writing CV? When you’re at the start of your writing career, it can feel as if you don’t have much to put on your writing…