Courses
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2417 Poetry: Fling Open the Doors with Caroline Bird and Malika Booker, Guest Reader Keith Jarrett
Mon 22nd Apr - Sat 27th Apr
Fully Booked
This course is all about radical self-permission, flinging open the doors of ourselves, allowing our blank pages to yield words we didn’t even know we held inside our heads. Prepare to write an almost criminal amount of new poems.
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2421 May Retreat
Mon 20th May - Sat 25th May
Fully Booked
Clear air and the scent of pine drifting from the forest await you on our May writing retreat. This time is yours to focus on your writing away from the bustle of everyday life.
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2423 Early June Retreat
Mon 3rd Jun - Sat 8th 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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2424 Poetry: Poetry Practice with Ann and Peter Sansom, Guest Reader Rachael Allen
Mon 10th Jun - Sat 15th Jun
Fully Booked
Applications are invited for this poetry practice course. Taking classic and contemporary poems as model and stimulus, you will move your practice on, while finishing several poems in just one week.
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2425 Fiction: Starting to write Myth into Fiction with Joanne Harris and Louie Stowell, Guest Reader Kevin Crossley Holland
Mon 17th Jun - Sat 22nd Jun
Fully Booked
As humans, we are embedded in a web of shared stories, handed down through the generations. Join Joanne Harris and Louie Stowell to explore how themes and characters from myths and folklore can help you unlock your own story.
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2429 July Retreat
Mon 15th Jul - Sat 20th Jul
Fully Booked
July is when Moniack’s garden is full and heavy with raspberries! Take this time to nourish the fruit of your own writing – with some home-made scones topped with Kit’s raspberry jam to keep you going.
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2431 Writing Parenthood with Lucy Caldwell and Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Mon 29th Jul - Sat 3rd Aug
Fully Booked
In this course, which can include childcare, we will explore what it means to write contemporary motherhood in fiction and non-fiction, in all of its blood, guts, despair, sublimity, and soul. There are options for attendance on this course.
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2435 Late August Retreat
Mon 26th Aug - Sat 31st Aug
Fully Booked
The fields around Moniack Mhor are rich and golden with the fullness of summer now, ready for harvest. Join us this August to gather your own words and reap the writing magic.
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2439 September Retreat
Mon 23rd Sep - Sat 28th Sep
Fully Booked
‘If I were a bird I would fly about the Earth seeking the successive autumns.’ Fly your writing to Moniack Mhor amid the glow of the changing season, as the hills and woodland above Loch Ness turn to bronze.
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