Moniack Mhor mentors are professional writers with tutoring and mentoring experience, who often lead our residential courses. Here you can read about each mentor’s work and the areas they are available to offer guidance and support.
To view the mentors under each category visit our Mentoring home page here and select a writing form.
Al Smith
PLAYWRITING, SCREENWRITING Al Smith’s recent plays include Rare Earth Mettle and Harrogate (both for the Royal Court), Diary of a ...
Boo Hewerdine
SONGWRITING Boo Hewerdine is a singer-songwriter, musician, producer and experienced tutor and mentor. He has written songs for Eddi Reader, ...
Cal Flyn
NON-FICTION, NATURE Cal Flyn is a writer from the Highlands of Scotland. She is the author of Thicker Than Water (2016), a ...
Cynan Jones
FICTION Cynan Jones is an acclaimed fiction writer from the west coast of Wales. His work has appeared in over ...
Cynthia Rogerson
FICTION Cynthia Rogerson is a Californian Scottish writer living in the Highlands. Winner of the V.S. Pritchett Prize, she’s published ...
Elizabeth Reeder
FICTION, NON-FICTION Elizabeth Reeder, originally from the States, has lived in Scotland for over 25 years. - working and living ...
Findlay Napier
SONGWRITING Findlay Napier is one of the finest singer songwriters and teaching artists in Scotland. His collaborations with Boo Hewerdine ...
James Mayhew
PICTURE BOOKS James Mayhew has been writing books for children for over 30 years. His many titles include the classic ...
Jen Hadfield
POETRY Jen Hadfield lives in Shetland with her family. Her first collection, Almanacs, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 ...
Jenny Valentine
YA and MIDDLE GRADE FICTION Jenny Valentine is an award winning writer for Young Adults. Her first novel Finding Violet ...
John Glenday
POETRY John Glenday is the author of four collections. The Apple Ghost (Peterloo Poets 1989) won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award ...
Karen Campbell
FICTION, CRIME FICTION Karen Campbell is a fiction writer. Author of eight novels and many short stories, she’s originally from ...
Kerry Hudson
FICTION, NON-FICTION Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He ...
Kevin MacNeil
FICTION, POETRY, NARRATIVE NON-FICTION, SCRIPTWRITING (STAGE OR SCREEN), SHORT STORIES Dr. Kevin MacNeil is a leading Scottish novelist, poet, playwright ...
Laura Wilson
CRIME FICTION Laura Wilson is the author of thirteen psychological crime novels, two of which were shortlisted for the Crime ...
Leila Aboulela
FICTION, RADIO, PLAYWRITING Leila Aboulela was born in Cairo, grew up in Khartoum and moved in her mid-twenties to Aberdeen ...
Mark Cocker
NATURE, BIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, HISTORY Mark Cocker is a multi-award-winning author of creative non-fiction, as well as a naturalist and environmental ...
Meg Pokrass
FLASH FICTION Meg Pokrass is the author of nine flash fiction collections and two novellas-in-flash. Her flash fiction has appeared in hundreds ...
Melvin Burgess
FICTION - YA FICTION Melvin Burgess has been writing fiction for young people since his first book, The Cry of ...