Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 30th Nov - Sat 5th Dec, 2015
5:00pm - 10:00am
Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT
This course is fully booked.
Interested in writing but don’t know where to start? Join tutors Cliff Yates and Jess Richards to explore new ways of expressing your voice – or that of your characters. Through group workshops and one-to-one tutorials, they will help you discover how best to get your ideas on the page. Guest reader Kapka Kassabova will share her work and writing wisdom on Wednesday evening. You will also get to know other young people from the Highlands in the creative atmosphere at Moniack Mhor.
The course is open to young people in the Highlands aged 16-19 with an interest in creative writing. It starts on Monday at 5pm and ends at 10am on Saturday morning. There is no cost for the course, but we ask those who are interested to submit a short application to reserve a place.
To apply, send us a piece of original work written by you that responds to one of the following questions:
- Why do you write?
- Why do you want to learn more about writing?
- How will this course help you?
- What is your current writing project? (Incude a short sample)
Answers can take any form — poem, prose, essay, video, audio — as long as they are written by you. Send your work in an email to Kelsey, our Youth Programme Manager, along with your completed booking form. Her email address is kelsey@moniackmhor.org.uk. You can also contact her with any questions or for more information on 01463 741 675.
Download a booking form: Booking form with parental permission
To learn more about what it is like on a course at Moniack, check out http://www.moniackmhor.org.uk/the-course-experience/. Bear in mind that this describes our open programme courses and some things do not apply to youth courses, like alcohol being available.
Still have more questions about Moniack Mhor? Come along to our meeting on Thursday, 29th October or join our Young Writers’ mailing list.
Cliff Yates collections of poetry include Henry’s Clock, winner of the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and Frank Freeman’s Dancing School. He wrote Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School during his time as Poetry Society poet-in-residence following the remarkable success of his students in poetry competitions. He is RLF Fellow at Aston University.
Jess Richards’ debut novel, Snake Ropes, was shortlisted for the Costa Awards, Green Carnation Prize and Scottish Book Awards. Cooking with Bones was published in 2013. She is working on a collection of poems/short stories alongside her third novel.
Kapka Kassabova is the author of the travel books Street Without a Name (2008) and Twelve Minutes of Love (2011). She has also published two novels and several books of poetry, and is a regular contributor to The Guardian. Born and raised in Bulgaria, she was university-educated in New Zealand and now lives in the Scottish Highlands. Border, the story of Europe’s last border, will be out in 2017.
