Category: Guest Blogs
Life in the Time of Coronavirus #4
The Moniack Mhor writers group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. This is the second of two pieces by Martin Russell . We’ll be presenting more as we go on. If you think you have anything…
Life in the Time of Coronavirus #3
The Moniack Mhor writers group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. This is the first of two pieces by Martin Russell. We’ll be presenting the second part tomorrow. I go down the communal stairway, out the…
Life in the Time of Coronavirus: Epicentre
The Moniack Mhor writers group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. This piece is by Ian Tallach. We’ll be presenting more of these as we go along, so keep an eye on the blog. Epicentre…
Life in the Time of Coronavirus
The Moniack Mhor writers group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. This piece is by Anne-Mary Paterson. We’ll be presenting more of these as we go along, so keep an eye on the blog. In some…
Write like no one’s watching at Moniack Mhor
The Scottish Book Trust new writers were with us recently. One of the recipients, Sheila M. Averbuch, has written about her experience at Moniack Mhor and has kindly allowed us to share it here. They say you enjoy dancing most if you do it like no one’s watching; my wise…
My Heart Is In The Highlands, My Heart Is Not Here
Writer Catherine Faulkner visited us for a writing retreat recently. While she was here, she wrote this poem and took these lovely photographs. Thank you to Catherine for allowing us to share them here. Here we breathe in air so rich it stuns our London-corrupted lungs. Richness, too, in…
Shockstarre to song in 30 minutes
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…
First Inverness, Then India: Getting Ready to Go
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,…
The Magic of Manifestation
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…
Claire Askew
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…