2026

2661 Online: Moniack in Six Weeks – The Workshop with Elizabeth Reeder
Wed 14th Jan - Wed 18th Feb
Online

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. 

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Young Writers’ Café with Kirsty Logan
Thu 22nd Jan

Join Kirsty for a Young Writers’ Café about how to take real experiences from your life and transform them into surreal, fantastical fiction.

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2681 Online Masterclass: The Carrying Stream with Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and John Glenday
Fri 23rd Jan
Online

Join Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and John Glenday for an online discussion and reading where they will discuss their perspectives on the relationship between poet and mentor and share poems which reflect on their personal experience of living with chronic illness. 

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2680 Online Masterclass: Plot, Character and World-Building in SF with Adam Oyebanji
Thu 5th Feb
Online

Join Adam Oyebanji for this masterclass on how to craft a believable make-belief world: the weaving together of plot, character, and setting to create an organic, layered whole.

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2662 Online: Moniack in a Month – Non-Fiction with Rebecca Smith
Tue 3rd Mar - Fri 27th Mar
Online

This course looks at how to blend a number of techniques to create an informative and emotive piece that connects the reader to your work, using reportage, facts, interviews and your own lived experience.  

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2686 Online Masterclass: Ceòl is bàrdachd | Music and Poetry with Julie Fowlis and Zoë Conway
Thu 12th Mar
Online

In this session, Julie and Zoë will explore the idea of composition, and discuss their own creative process of composing new music inspired by existing poetry, both traditional and contemporary, concentrating mainly on the approach to working with poetry in Scottish Gaelic and Irish.

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2663 Online: A Year of Writing with Elizabeth Reeder – Season 1
Wed 18th Mar - Wed 27th May
Online

Following the success of Elizabeth’s Reeder’s A Year of Writing in 2024-25, we are happy to be able to offer this course again in 2026-27. This is a four-season writing course open to writers of fiction and non-fiction with a work in progress.

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2664 Online: Moniack in a Month – Poetry: When the Body Breaks with Romalyn Ante
Tue 7th Apr - Thu 30th Apr
Online

This course will explore the profound and intimate relationships between the body, trauma, and healing. Drawing on works by Paisley Rekdal, Fiona Benson, John Glenday, Mary Oliver, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Walt Whitman, and others, the workshops will investigate how the body functions as both a vessel of beauty and vulnerability.

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2619 Neurodivergent Writing: with Kate Fox and Joanne Limburg, Guest Reader Elspeth Wilson
Mon 4th May - Sat 9th May

Join Joanne Limburg and Kate Fox in exploring how neurodiversity can be found in literary forms from poetry to fiction and creative non-fiction – and look at how neurodivergent writers of all levels of life experience can play with, challenge or find a sense of home within  these forms.  

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2666 Online: Moniack in a Month – Fantasy Fiction with Hannah Kaner
Thu 7th May - Fri 29th May
Online

How do you weave the multiple and dynamic strands of voice, character and world through your story without weighing down the tale? Through four interactive workshops led by Hannah Kaner, you’ll explore the foundations of world-building.

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2620 Climate: with Anna Selby and Hannah Lowe, Guest Reader TBC
Mon 11th May - Sat 16th May

In this course, we’ll draw on diverse examples from environmental and activist poetry, eco-memoir, climate fiction and multi-species storytelling to generate new and exciting work.

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2621 May Retreat
Mon 18th May - Sat 23rd May
Fully Booked

Immerse yourself in the fresh Highland air at Moniack Mhor to release your thoughts and ideas, in the glorious month of May as the evenings become lighter.

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2683 Online Masterclass: Poetry Translation with Peter Mackay
Wed 20th May
Online

This masterclass will explore poetry that lives in-between languages, whether tip-toeing along the edges of those languages or jumping deep into etymological poems.

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2623 Crime: with Caro Ramsay and Michael J Malone, Guest Reader Kate Lyall Grant
Mon 1st Jun - Sat 6th Jun

This course, with Michael J Malone and Caro Ramsay, offers an opportunity to craft compelling crime fiction. An immersive course to take you from blank page to polishing the final draft with entertaining workshops on the nuts and bolts for creating chilling villains, twisty plots and perfect prose.

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2624 Short Fiction: with Irenosen Okojie and Leone Ross, Guest Reader Tessa Hadley
Mon 8th Jun - Sat 13th Jun

This week will be a deep dive  into a continuum of approaches for short stories, from the plotted to the subversive, from the serious to the mischievous. For writers who have already tried the form and now want their short stories to be even better.  

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2684 Online Masterclass: Writing for Paperboats with Karen Lloyd and Laura Fyfe
Thu 18th Jun
Online

Paperboats is a Scotland-based collective of writers, global in outlook, who focus on nature and our environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. In this workshop led by Laura Fyfe and Karen Lloyd, participants will be encouraged to find new ways to engage meaningfully with the more-than-human-world.

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2626 June Retreat
Mon 22nd Jun - Sat 27th Jun
Fully Booked

Summer starts to make itself known in the Scottish Highlands in June, as the days stretch towards the solstice. Make the most of extra daylight and stretch your metaphorical writer legs during our June retreat.

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2685 Online Masterclass: Creative Responses to Place with Amanda Thomson
Thu 2nd Jul
Online

How might words, images or a mixture of both help communicate the moments, atmospheres, feelings and complexities that you’re looking to capture and convey? This masterclass is about thinking through the ways in which we might give expression to the multifaceted nature of our experiences and encounters with places and spaces in playful and thoughtful ways.    

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2628 Playwriting: with Simon Stephens and Eve Leigh, Guest Reader Omar Elerian
Mon 6th Jul - Sat 11th Jul

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. This course is useful both for playwrights at the beginning of their career and for writers who have written one or two plays and are looking to develop their craft. 

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2629 Lifewriting: with Karen McLeod and Jarred McGinnis, Guest Reader Jackie Kay
Mon 13th Jul - Sat 18th Jul

Can fiction writers learn from memoir? And when using autobiographical material, where and how do you create the friction needed to make compelling stories? Whether you’re writing a memoir dressed as a novel, lightly taking from lived experience for a novel, or experimenting with shorter fiction, this course will help develop your writing.  

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2630 Poetry: with Kim Moore and Clare Shaw, Guest Reader tbc
Mon 20th Jul - Sat 25th Jul
Fully Booked

Join award winning poets Kim Moore and Clare Shaw for an immersive poetry residential. Through workshops, readings and shared reflection, we’ll explore poetry as a powerful act of noticing – of bearing witness to the world around us and within us.

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2631 July Retreat
Mon 27th Jul - Sat 1st Aug
Fully Booked

Take some time away from everything in the beautiful surroundings of Moniack Mhor to get some thinking and writing done on this summer retreat.

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2632 Course with Childcare with Samuel Tongue and Nuala Watt
Mon 3rd Aug - Sat 8th Aug

The lives we live now are full of a complex combination of challenge, exhaustion, anxiety, and the overwhelming love and novelty that children bring with them into this complex world. In this course, two parent poets, Sam and Nuala, will help you explore this multifaceted experience in your own writing.

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