Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed 14th Jan - Wed 18th Feb, 2026
6:00pm - 8:00pm
The Workshop: eight writers sharing their work over six weeks
The Workshop at Moniack Mhor Online is a six-week course led by Elizabeth Reeder where eight writers come together to give and receive feedback on each other’s work. Each week we workshop two pieces of up to 3,000 words, prose. Each workshopped piece also receives feedback from the course tutor. This is a course is built on the premise that we learn loads about our own writing and our writing process by close reading the work of others and having that close attention paid to our own writing. It’s a course solely focused on the sharing of our work. This course is for fiction and non-fiction prose writers (short stories, essays, excerpts from works in progress) and those writing hybrid works like lyric essays or prose poems. Each writer will also have a 30-minute tutorial with Elizabeth to discuss the work submitted to the workshop.
6 weeks. 8 students.
Course Outline
Week 1
Introducing the course, the method of workshopping, and each other.
Weeks 2 – 5
We workshop two people each week. All participants read each piece of work, speak to it in class and annotate it too.
Week 6
A ceilidh, sharing of work. Most 1-2-1 tutorials will take place this week.
Timetable
Wednesday 14 Jan 18:00–20:00 Introduction
Wednesday 21 Jan 18:00–20.00 Workshop 1
Wednesday 28 Jan 18:00–20:00 Workshop 2
Wednesday 4 Feb 18:00–20.00 Workshop 3
Wednesday 11 Feb 18:00–20:00 Workshop 4
Wednesday 18 Feb 18:00–20.00 Ceilidh
Tutorials
Your one-to-one tutorial with Elizabeth will be scheduled when the season starts.
Tutor
Elizabeth Reeder writes fiction, experimental essays, poetry and hybrid work. She has two recent books: a novel, An Archive of Happiness (Penned in the Margins), which was longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, and a collection of hybrid lyric essays, microbursts, which is an artistic collaboration with Amanda Thomson (Prototype Publishing). From 2021 to 2024, Elizabeth was one of three Endangered Landscape artists in residence with Cairngorms Connect. She co-runs DeathWrites, a Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded network of Scottish writers exploring illness, dying, death and grief. She is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow.
Fees
The full fee for the course is £360. A deposit of £100 is required to secure your place, which is non-refundable after a 14-day cooling-off period. The balance payment of £260 is due six weeks before the season begins. Please read our Terms & Conditions for full details about our cancellation policy.
Bursaries are available, and you also have the option to pay in instalments, please email online@moniackmhor.org.uk to enquire.
All activity takes place on Zoom, and workshops include a short break. Moniack Mhor staff will be on hand to support you during your course.
For more information please email online@moniackmhor.org.uk.
Access
Please let us know in your booking form if you have any access requirements when working online so we can do our best to support you. For more information about access to our courses, please visit our Access page.
Terms and Conditions
Please read our Terms & Conditions before booking.
Bookings
This event is fully booked. Please email info@moniackmhor.org.uk to be added to the waiting list.