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.
CRIME MASTERCLASSES
Join bestselling crime writer Liam McIlvanney for two crime masterclasses on Mon 20th + 27th October. The first will examine story structure while the second will discuss the craft of writing dialogue. Both masterclasses are primarily aimed at at crime writers with an intermediate or above level of experience.
YOUNG WRITERS CAFÉ
Join Cecilia Knapp and explore how to grow and know your characters and allow them to live on the page. We’ll put your characters in complex situations—the weirder the better— and explore how they respond, as well as learn how to write convincing dialogue which feels true to life. Expect fun, imaginative exercises in this low pressure and explorative environment.
ONLINE: TRAVEL WRITING
"Travel” need not mean physically going far. It can describe an experience of places and people close to home, one in which memory and history also play a part. On this 4-week online course tutored by author Miranda France, you’ll learn how to look at and describe worlds both strange and familiar, shaping what you learn into a story that others will want to read. Through texts and images, interviews, conversation and written exercises, you’ll think about different approaches to describing nature, cities, cultures and people, both for books and shorter texts.
POETRY RESIDENTIAL
Listening, inventing, collaborating with the wild world, this course dances on the so called boundary between us and all else … bringing what is outside into us – and drawing what is inside us out into the world. This course is aimed at writers of all stages who want to engage with both the natural world and the private world inside themselves.
YOUTH LED FUND
Are you creative, living in Scotland and aged 8-30?
Apply now for up to £500 for your creative activity or project