Meet our Mentors

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 and experienced tutor. He has written songs for Eddi Reader, k.d. lang, Chris Difford ...

Cal Flyn

NON-FICTION, NATURE Cal Flyn is a writer from the Highlands of Scotland. Her first book Thicker Than Water (2016), about ...

Cynan Jones

FICTION Cynan Jones is a fiction writer from the west coast of Wales. He is the author of six books, ...

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 Chicago, has lived in Scotland for over twenty years – working and living in ...

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 creating books for children for over 30 years. He loves experimenting with different techniques ...

Jen Hadfield

POETRY Jen Hadfield is a poet published by Picador, whose fourth collection The Stone Age explores neurodiversity and is forthcoming ...

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 poetry collections. His most recent, The Golden Mean (Picador, 2015), won the ...

Karen Campbell

FICTION, CRIME FICTION Karen Campbell is a fiction writer, originally from Glasgow, and now living in Galloway. She has been ...

Kerry Hudson

FICTION, NON-FICTION Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He ...
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Kevin MacNeil

FICTION, POETRY, NARRATIVE NON-FICTION, SCRIPTWRITING (STAGE OR SCREEN), SHORT STORIES Kevin is a leading Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter, ...

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 7 flash fiction collections and two novellas-in-flash. Her flash fiction has appeared ...

Melvin Burgess

FICTION - YA FICTION Melvin Burgess has been writing fiction for young people since his first book, The Cry of ...

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