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2617 April Retreat
Monday 20 Apr - Saturday 25 Apr
Fully Booked
The landscape around us is starting to awaken from its winter slumber – come gather inspiration for your writing at Moniack Mhor.
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2618 Late April Retreat
Monday 27 Apr - Saturday 2 May
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Dust off the wintery cobwebs and come join us for a burst of fresh creative energy at Moniack Mhor.
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2619 Neurodivergent Writing: with Kate Fox and Elspeth Wilson, Guest Reader Joanne Limburg
Monday 4 May - Saturday 9 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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2620 Wild Imagination: Writing for a Changing World with Anna Selby and Hannah Lowe, Guest Reader TBC
Monday 11 May - Saturday 16 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
Monday 18 May - Saturday 23 May
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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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2623 Crime: with Caro Ramsay and Michael J Malone, Guest Reader Kate Lyall Grant
Monday 1 Jun - Saturday 6 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
Monday 8 Jun - Saturday 13 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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2626 June Retreat
Monday 22 Jun - Saturday 27 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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2628 Playwriting: with Simon Stephens and Eve Leigh, Guest Reader Omar Elerian
Monday 6 Jul - Saturday 11 Jul
Fully Booked
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
Monday 13 Jul - Saturday 18 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 Abeer Ameer
Monday 20 Jul - Saturday 25 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
Monday 27 Jul - Saturday 1 Aug
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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
Monday 3 Aug - Saturday 8 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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