Calendar

Summer starts to make itself known in the Scottish Highlands in June, as the days stretch towards the solstice. Make the most of extra daylight and stretch your metaphorical writer legs during our June retreat.

Join writer Cynan Jones for a 4-week online short story course to discover tools and motivation to help you tackle a story head-on and develop your own piece of short fiction. Includes workshops, group drop-ins, two one-to-one tutorials and a chance to share your work.

Join award-winning writer Jen Hadfield for an adventure in writing essays and lyrical non-fiction. A 4-week online course, with guest writer and publisher, Luke Thompson.

Applications are invited for this poetry practice course. Taking classic and contemporary poems as model and stimulus, you will move your practice on, while finishing several poems in just one week.

Join Heather Parry for an exploration of writing into the gothic genre, and how we can draw upon its long history in new, fresh and exciting ways. 

As humans, we are embedded in a web of shared stories, handed down through the generations. Join Joanne Harris and Louie Stowell to explore how themes and characters from myths and folklore can help you unlock your own story.

In this one-hour online session delivered via Zoom, writer and publisher Luke Thompson will read from his work and be in conversation with Jen Hadfield, poet, essay writer and tutor of Moniack in a Month: The Passionate Essay. Includes a short time for questions from our audience.

An active interrogation of the mechanics of playwriting, this course will creatively examine the use of dramatic action, character, location, narrative and structure in the making of a play.

Join crime thriller writer Leye Adenle for this 2-hour online masterclass. Learn how to intricately weave sensory details into your crime and thriller stories, heightening tension and creating an immersive experience that keeps the reader locked in the fictive dream.  Includes writing exercises and a short Q&A.