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.
NEURODIVERGENT WRITING
Using their own work and the work of fellow neurodivergent writers and thinkers, Joanne Limburg and Kate Fox will help participants explore how neurodiversity can be found in literary forms from poetry to fiction and creative non -fiction -and look at how neurodivergent writers of all levels of life experience can play with, challenge or find a sense of home within these forms.
YOUNG WRITERS' CAFÉ
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.
CRIME COURSE
This course, with Michael J Malone and Caro Ramsay, offers an opportunity to craft compelling crime fiction. An immersive course to take you from blank page to polishing the final draft with entertaining workshops on the nuts and bolts for creating chilling villains, twisty plots and perfect prose.
ONLINE NON-FICTION COURSE
There are several ways to approach nonfiction writing: memoir, travel, journalism, creative. 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.
SPRING RESIDENCY
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.
A YEAR OF WRITING
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. It is led by Elizabeth Reeder, author of An Archive of Happiness (Penned in the Margins) and microbursts (Prototype). The course will run roughly fortnightly on Wednesday evenings.