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…
On 28th October 2023, Moniack Mhor and Boo Hewerdine presented exciting new voices in music at STAGES: The Journey to Performance in Eden Court, Inverness Twelve gifted singer-songwriters performed original and unheard songs at the launch of their collaborative album, developed through Stages, a writing, production and performance programme for…
In this month’s blog post, we continue the sharing of stories from the many people who have touched lives with Moniack Mhor over the last 30 years. Long-time friend and tutor, Michel Faber shares his memory: My most treasured memory of Moniack Mhor doesn’t actually concern any of the times…
Throughout our 30th year, we will be sharing a series of blog posts with anecdotes, snippets, and memories from many of the people who have spent time with us at Moniack Mhor over the years. In this first post, we warmly welcome Graham Morgan, writer and now Moniack Mhor Board…
Welcome to Moniack Mhor, 30 years of words and hospitality… Today, Wednesday 17th May 2023, marks thirty years since Moniack Mhor opened its doors to writers. We are delighted to relaunch the Moniack Mhor Blog with reflections on this big birthday from Rachel Humphries, our Centre Director. And look out…
The work of a long-forgotten Edwardian artist has been discovered in an attic in the Highlands of Scotland. Sir Christopher Spink, an artist who created butterfly origami sculptures from his home in the Highlands, is thought to have lived from 1895 to 1925. He travelled the world in search of…