Courses

Start your writing year positively on our January retreat.

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In their workshops, Brian and Ron will help you get in touch with your imagination and give it a voice.

Are you looking for insider secrets on how to write a cracking crime novel? Join two award-winning, bestselling Scottish authors for an in-depth look at how to add punch and depth to your writing.

This course will explore techniques to bring to life the textures of different environments, and how to use setting in relation to character development, tone and plot.

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In this tutored retreat, you will be working closely with two experienced writers of both non-fiction and fiction. With them, you will discuss how to build a rich and convincing sense of place in your work, and how setting can help you tell your story.

Come and join us and let your writing productivity flourish.

Through workshops, tutorials, co-writing and one-to-one sessions, Kathryn and Colin will help you identify useful ideas as the seeds from which to grow a song.

In this one-day workshop, we’ll explore what summer means to you, this time of growth, of possibility, so long celebrated in verse and song. Let’s add to the tradition.

If you have a novel in progress but it is not progressing, this course will help you get back on track and find the heart of your story.

Whether you’re up early or late to bed, your creativity will benefit from a stravaig through the woods or along the single-track roads. Long summer days are ideal to enjoy our stunning views of Glen Strathfarrar and Ben Wyvis. Let the natural environment around the centre inspire your writing. 

With workshops on elements of craft such as characterisation, dialogue, openings and one-to-one tutorials – while your children go to the local Forest School – these few days will give you the time and space to think and write, without having to juggle.

Poets are invited to submit 4 poems for consideration for the Masterclass. The course will be structured around both morning and afternoon workshops and evening readings after dinner. There will be no one-to-one sessions; instead, poets will be put into small groups of four for sharing and discussing of work each day.

This course will provide inspiration, insight and advice on writing for teenagers, how to access this unique readership and how to make your novel stand out on the shelf.

Join award-winning novelists, Jane Harris and Justin Hill, for an inspirational and practical course that’s designed to help you write historical novels.

This course will help clarify some simple issues to get you started and you can also bring your own ideas, treatments or proposals for film or TV to the tutors for their help and advice.

Award-winning author, Nathan Filer, and publishing director at Picador, Francesca Main, will share their insights on how to bring out the best in your novel.

On this tutored retreat we’ll help you focus and test your fiction writing. We’ll help you look at craft, content and the relationship between what you want to say and the way in which you might successfully express it.

In this one-day workshop, through group discussions, examples, practical exercises and plenty of handy tips, John Glenday will show how there are actually two forms of inspiration involved in the writing and nurturing of a poem

For some writers, landscape and a sense of place is as animate and important as their narrators and characters. With varied landscapes on the doorstep, Moniack Mhor is ideally placed for exploratory outdoor workshops.

James and Sarah will lead you through the basics of structuring a picture book, discuss sources of inspiration, techniques, and share from their experience.

This week will introduce a dizzying variety of techniques to help poets keep their words alive and surprising. Expect to write an almost criminal amount of new poems as well.

What makes a comic: why comics is the most versatile visual medium for your writing, and the role of the writer and artist.

Workshops with Nuala and Cynan will look at crucial aspects of short form writing, like titles, openings, concision, and detail; while one-to-one clinics will focus on your specific project(s).

An active interrogation of the mechanics of playwriting, this course will creatively examine the use of dramatic action, character, location, narrative and structure in the making of a play.

Bestselling authors Cathy Rentzenbrink and Nina Stibbe come together to present a course on different approaches to writing the self.

Supported by tutors Karen and Adam, our tutored crime-writing retreat will let you unravel ideas, craft plot twists and turns and cut away excess flesh in your work.

Forget the festive rush. Come to Moniack Mhor for some writing therapy instead. This could be your prefect gift – time, space and the permission to write, with festive treats laid on!