Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre is offering two-week-long self-supported, subsidised residencies for established writers across all forms, living in or from Scotland.
These residencies will provide you with a nurturing space as part of a supportive community, allowing uninterrupted time to continue your work, in the peace and nourishment of Moniack Mhor.
Applications are open from 19th December 2025 to 15th January 2026
- The residency offers:
- Two weeks of dedicated time to focus on your work
- A single room with a shared bathroom (a small number of en-suites available)
- All meals and continuous snacks
- An optional opportunity to share your work as part of a performance with the local community
- Informal opportunities to share your work with your peers
- The support of the Moniack Mhor team to make sure your stay with us supports you as a writer, including introducing connections to other writers in the area or with other resident writers. This includes the chance to connect with our Jessie Kesson Fellow and our British Council Residency for creative professionals from Palestine.
- Subsidised places at £600 for a fortnight residency, all meals and accommodation included.
As part of our equalities work, we have four earmarked, fully funded spaces available across the residency programme for writers who may experience a barrier to attending or are proportionally under-represented in the sector (this may include members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people of colour, disabled writers, people with lived experience of the care system in Scotland, writers under the age of 25 or writers on low income or people who have faced discrimination). Please contact us by email if you would like to discuss this.
Dates
First Cohort: 9th to 21st March 2026
Second Cohort: 23rd March to 4th April 2026
Eligibility
- Applicants must have had at least one major piece of work published by a UK publishing house (for example, one novel, one short-story collection, one poetry pamphlet or collection, one album, or had one professional production of their work staged)
- Professional writers living in Scotland working in fiction, poetry, non-fiction, songwriting, or playwriting.
Application
- We aim to make this process simple and quick, please fill out the form below to tell us
- Why you’re interested in the opportunity?
- What will you be working on during the residency?
- Please tell us a little bit about your publishing history, including information about your current UK publisher?
- Signpost us to your work or send us an up-to-date writers CV by email to residencies@moniackmhor.org.uk alongside completing the form
And please fill out our anonymous EDI Form.
If you have any questions, contact residencies@moniackmhor.org.uk for more information.