Join the Moniack Mhor experience online and access top-quality creative writing tuition, develop your craft and share your experiences with a community of writers – all from the comfort of your own home.
Our activity includes Moniack in a Month courses, year-round seasons of writing, masterclasses and other one-off events, and an online mentoring programme. We add new courses and events throughout the year so please keep an eye on our social media and newsletter for updates!
All Online Courses
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2660 Online: Three Seasons of Poetry with John Glenday – Season 1
Tue 13th Jan - Fri 27th Feb
Online
Get off to a flying start in 2026 by joining poet John Glenday in a sustained, long-term online poetry writing programme designed to stimulate the imagination, examine technique and hone existing skills.
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2661 Online: Moniack in Six Weeks – The Workshop with Elizabeth Reeder
Wed 14th Jan - Wed 18th Feb
Online
The Workshop at Moniack Mhor Online is a six-week course led by Elizabeth Reeder where eight writers come together to give and receive feedback on each other’s work.
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2681 Online Masterclass: The Carrying Stream with Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and John Glenday
Fri 23rd Jan
Online
Join Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and John Glenday for an online discussion and reading where they will discuss their perspectives on the relationship between poet and mentor and share poems which reflect on their personal experience of living with chronic illness.
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2680 Online Masterclass: Plot, Character and World-Building in SF with Adam Oyebanji
Thu 5th Feb
Online
Join Adam Oyebanji for this masterclass on how to craft a believable make-belief world: the weaving together of plot, character, and setting to create an organic, layered whole.
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2662 Online: Moniack in a Month – Non-Fiction with Rebecca Smith
Tue 3rd Mar - Fri 27th Mar
Online
This course looks at how to blend a number of techniques to create an informative and emotive piece that connects the reader to your work, using reportage, facts, interviews and your own lived experience.
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2686 Online Masterclass: Ceòl is bàrdachd | Music and Poetry with Julie Fowlis and Zoë Conway
Thu 12th Mar
Online
In this session, Julie and Zoë will explore the idea of composition, and discuss their own creative process of composing new music inspired by existing poetry, both traditional and contemporary, concentrating mainly on the approach to working with poetry in Scottish Gaelic and Irish.
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2663 Online: A Year of Writing with Elizabeth Reeder – Season 1
Wed 18th Mar - Wed 27th May
Online
Following the success of Elizabeth’s Reeder’s A Year of Writing in 2024-25, we are happy to be able to offer this course again in 2026-27. This is a four-season writing course open to writers of fiction and non-fiction with a work in progress.
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2664 Online: Moniack in a Month – When the Body Breaks with Romalyn Ante
Tue 7th Apr - Thu 30th Apr
Online
This course will explore the profound and intimate relationships between the body, trauma, and healing. Drawing on works by Paisley Rekdal, Fiona Benson, John Glenday, Mary Oliver, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Walt Whitman, and others, the workshops will investigate how the body functions as both a vessel of beauty and vulnerability.
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2666 Online: Moniack in a Month – Fantasy Fiction with Hannah Kaner
Thu 7th May - Fri 29th May
Online
How do you weave the multiple and dynamic strands of voice, character and world through your story without weighing down the tale? Through four interactive workshops led by Hannah Kaner, you’ll explore the foundations of world-building.
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2683 Online Masterclass: Poetry Translation with Peter Mackay
Wed 20th May
Online
This masterclass will explore poetry that lives in-between languages, whether tip-toeing along the edges of those languages or jumping deep into etymological poems.
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2684 Online Masterclass: Writing for Paperboats with Karen Lloyd and Laura Fyfe
Thu 18th Jun
Online
Paperboats is a Scotland-based collective of writers, global in outlook, who focus on nature and our environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. In this workshop led by Laura Fyfe and Karen Lloyd, participants will be encouraged to find new ways to engage meaningfully with the more-than-human-world.
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2685 Online Masterclass: Creative Responses to Place with Amanda Thomson
Thu 2nd Jul
Online
This masterclass is about thinking through the ways in which we might give expression to the multifaceted nature of our experiences and encounters with places and spaces in playful and thoughtful ways.
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