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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2544 Late October Retreat
Mon 27th Oct - Sat 1st Nov
Fully Booked
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.
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2545 Scots Tutored Retreat with Hannah Rarity and William Letford, Guest Reader Amanda Thomson
Mon 3rd Nov - Sat 8th Nov
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.
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2546 Short Fiction: The Adventure Starts Here with Kirsty Gunn and Meaghan Delahunt, Guest Reader Duncan McLean
Mon 10th Nov - Sat 15th Nov
Do you have ideas for stories you’ve never got around to writing? Or need inspiration and a kick-start to writing them? This course, designed for anyone interested in short fiction, is an adventure in creative writing.
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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
Limited Places Available
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
Limited Places Available
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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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