NURTURING WRITERS & WRITING
BURSARY SUPPORT
Young Writers
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
OUR BEGINNINGS
Moniack Mhor is Scotland’s National Writing Centre. Based in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, we run courses in a range of genres tutored by some of the finest authors in the UK and beyond. With workshops and one to one tutorials, our courses provide an atmosphere to fully immerse yourself in your writing. The centre also offers writing retreats providing time and space, free from distractions, where you will find yourself part of a nurturing writing community. Other support offered by Moniack Mhor includes awards, bursaries, professional residencies to develop works in progress and a programme for young writers.
SONGWRITING COURSE
Finding and sharing your voice in song. Have you always wanted to write a song? Do you want time for writing more songs? Do you want to stretch out of your usual creative practice? Songwriting can be the connective way we reach out to others and also make sense of our own feelings .
PLAYWRIGHTING WORKSHOP
We're collaborating with the Royal Court Theatre to organise two workshops for people aged 13-18, one in Inverness and one in Forres.
MENTORING MASTERCLASS
Mentoring is growing increasingly popular as a support for emerging poets working towards a first collection. But how exactly can a mentoring programme help and how effective is it? Are there opportunities to reimagine it? Join Cáit O’Neill McCullagh and John Glenday for an online discussion and reading where they will examine these issues, discuss their perspectives of the mentoring relationship and share their poetry.
YOUNG WRITERS CAFÉ
Song Maps — Do you sometimes start writing a song and get lost inside it? Perhaps you’ve got lots of songs you’ve started but you struggle to finish them.
Song maps can be a great help when it comes to finding your way out! Join Polly to find out more about song maps, and how you can use them when you’re writing songs to tell a story, pack an emotional punch, and really connect with your listeners.
ONLINE: SCIENCE FICTION
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.