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As the nights get longer and the leaves fall, cosy up at Moniack Mhor and get some focused writing time. There will be company if you want it, hearty meals in the evening, but most of all, time and space to concentrate on your project without any distractions.

Crime fiction is a dialogue-driven genre. This session introduces the key principles and techniques involved in crafting compelling dialogue in crime fiction.

Join us for a free writing session! No need for experience, just bring along a playful mind and pen and paper! Drinks and snacks provided.

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.

Listening, inventing, collaborating with the wild world, this course dances on the so called boundary between us and all else ... bringing what is outside into us – and drawing what is inside us out into the world. This course is aimed at writers of all stages who want to engage with both the natural world and the private world inside themselves.

For writers with a special interest in historical fiction, the week will be a chance to start new projects or push on with work in progress. Through workshops, discussions and tutorials, we'll explore a type of storytelling that remains hugely popular with readers, that inhabits genre but also transcends it.

Learn how to look at and describe worlds both strange and familiar and how to shape this into a story that others will want to read. Through texts and images, interviews, conversation and written exercises, you’ll think about different approaches to describing nature, cities, cultures and people, both for books and shorter texts.