Below you will find details of our open residential courses, which provide a week of group workshops and individual tutorials with a wide range of skilled and experienced writers; tutored retreats, where the focus is on one-to-one work with the tutors; and retreats, during which you can give your words dedicated time in our supportive and nurturing environment. More information on our different residential formats can be found here.
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All Residential Courses & Retreats
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2547 Poetry: Collaborating with the Wild World with Jen Hadfield and Niall Campbell, Guest Reader Suzannah V. Evans
Mon 17th Nov - Sat 22nd Nov
Fully Booked
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.
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2548 Historical Fiction: The Cathedral of Mist with Andrew Miller and Lucy Jago, Guest Reader Anna Frame
Mon 24th Nov - Sat 29th Nov
Fully Booked
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.
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2550 Fiction: Tutored Retreat with Louise Welsh and Zoë Strachan, Guest Reader Francis Bickmore
Mon 8th Dec - Sat 13th Dec
Fully Booked
This week-long tutored retreat offers an opportunity to focus intensively on a work-in-progress: any kind of prose writing welcome! Zoë and Louise will be on hand to help you hone characters and structure, develop style, shift blocks and think about next steps.
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2603 Early January Retreat
Mon 12th Jan - Sat 17th Jan
Start your year with an untutored retreat at Moniack Mhor and give yourself time and space to focus on your project.
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2604 January Retreat
Mon 19th Jan - Sat 24th Jan
While the cold dark weather surrounds us, warm up next to the cosy wood-burning stoves at Moniack Mhor to focus your attention and hone your writing.
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2606 Songwriting: with Kathryn Williams and Louis Abbott, Guest Reader Polly Paulusma
Mon 2nd Feb - Sat 7th Feb
Finding and sharing your voice in song. Have you always wanted to write a song? Do you want time for writing more songs? Do you want to stretch out of your usual creative practice? Songwriting can be the conective way we reach out to others and also make sense of our own feelings .
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2609 February Retreat
Mon 23rd Feb - Sat 28th Feb
Ease yourself gently from winter into the beginning of spring. Get away from everything and allow yourself the time to dedicate yourself to your writing.
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2610 Early March Retreat
Mon 2nd Mar - Sat 7th Mar
Come to Moniack Mhor for some quality quiet time. Evenings by the fire, good company and country walks will help inspire your writing.
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Radical Care Retreat & Courses with Childcare
Following the success of our Radical Care Retreats and Courses with Childcare, Moniack Mhor are continually developing plans for future delivery of similar retreats with childcare support. If this is something you would like to know more about, please email us to register your interest on radicalcare@moniackmhor.org.uk