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2548 Historical Fiction: The Cathedral of Mist with Andrew Miller and Lucy Jago, Guest Reader Jenny Brown
Mon 24th Nov - Sat 29th Nov
Fully Booked
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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2603 Early January Retreat
Mon 12th Jan - Sat 17th Jan
Fully Booked
Start your year with an untutored retreat at Moniack Mhor and give yourself time and space to focus on your project.
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2604 January Retreat
Mon 19th Jan - Sat 24th Jan
While the cold dark weather surrounds us, warm up next to the cosy wood-burning stoves at Moniack Mhor to focus your attention and hone your writing.
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2606 Songwriting: with Kathryn Williams and Louis Abbott, Guest Reader Polly Paulusma
Mon 2nd Feb - Sat 7th Feb
Finding and sharing your voice in song. Have you always wanted to write a song? Do you want time for writing more songs? Do you want to stretch out of your usual creative practice? Songwriting can be the conective way we reach out to others and also make sense of our own feelings .
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2609 February Retreat
Mon 23rd Feb - Sat 28th Feb
Ease yourself gently from winter into the beginning of spring. Get away from everything and allow yourself the time to dedicate yourself to your writing.
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2610 Early March Retreat
Mon 2nd Mar - Sat 7th Mar
Come to Moniack Mhor for some quality quiet time. Evenings by the fire, good company and country walks will help inspire your writing.
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2619 Neurodiverse 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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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
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
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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2626 June Retreat
Mon 22nd Jun - Sat 27th Jun
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
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
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
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 Sam 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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