Angela Cran, Moniack Mhor’s General Manager, zooms in on the centre’s first ever online course It’s Thursday, 23 April 2020, around 4.35pm, and I’m a little late to the songwriting Zoom party. Findlay Napier’s daughter is leaning on his knee, a heavy fringe pointing a toy rifle at sixteen of…
The Moniack Mhor Writers Group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. Today’s piece is written by Karen Lean. Life in the Time of Corona One day a bad thing happened. As the weeks went by it…
The Moniack Mhor Writers Group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. Today’s piece is a short story by Zoe Mackenzie. Keep an eye on our blog for more contributions from the group. Supermarket Hell The large…
The Moniack Mhor writers group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. This is the second of two pieces by Martin Russell . We’ll be presenting more as we go on. If you think you have anything…
The Moniack Mhor writers group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. This is the first of two pieces by Martin Russell. We’ll be presenting the second part tomorrow. I go down the communal stairway, out the…
The Moniack Mhor writers group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. This piece is by Ian Tallach. We’ll be presenting more of these as we go along, so keep an eye on the blog. Epicentre…
The Moniack Mhor writers group, led by Cynthia Rogerson, has been meeting remotely during the Lockdown. They have been writing pieces inspired by the situation. This piece is by Anne-Mary Paterson. We’ll be presenting more of these as we go along, so keep an eye on the blog. In some…
The Scottish Book Trust new writers were with us recently. One of the recipients, Sheila M. Averbuch, has written about her experience at Moniack Mhor and has kindly allowed us to share it here. They say you enjoy dancing most if you do it like no one’s watching; my wise…
To celebrate the end of our Spring Residency Month, we held a ceilidh in Abriachan Village Hall, where we brought together some of the writers, singers and poets who had been sharing the space at Moniack Mhor these past few weeks. If you were there, then you’ll know just how…
Writer Catherine Faulkner visited us for a writing retreat recently. While she was here, she wrote this poem and took these lovely photographs. Thank you to Catherine for allowing us to share them here. Here we breathe in air so rich it stuns our London-corrupted lungs. Richness, too, in…