Calendar

Whether you're new to writing the teenage voice, or already have a YA novel well under way, these experienced, award-winning tutors will guide you through the joys and challenges of finding your teenage voice in your fiction.

Join Priscilla Mante to explore how to start your story off strong.

*Retreat description still required*

Join Boo Hewerdine, Emily Barker, John Hegley and Kerry Hudson for a creative adventure in writing songs and stories! This taster is offered as part of the Creativity and Care Programme for care experienced young people aged 14-30.

Push your work-in-progress to the next level in this fun and practical course for novelists - explore dialogue, sensory detail, pacing, and the relationship between fiction and fact.

Join Michel Faber for our next Young Writers' Café who will talk you through the rewards, rejections, challenges, weirdnesses and dangers of being a writer.

Join Theodore Brogan and Ellenor Cowling for a day of exploring queer voices! Both workshops are FREE and open to all.

Join Billy Letford for a poetry workshop aimed at travelling through your own imagination and surprising yourself! This taster is offered as part of the Creativity and Care Programme for care experienced young people aged 14-30.

How do we persuasively share our views when articulating our thoughts on the books we read? This 2-hour masterclass focusing on critical reading, reflecting and reviewing will also include space for discussion and audience questions. Part of a series celebrating Moniack Mhor's 30th anniversary.

Join fiction writer Heather Parry to turn your initial "what if?" idea into a novel with effective characters, a strong plotline and a hook that really works. 

What is the best way to tell your story? How do you find the right voice, perspective, tone, tense? This 2-hour masterclass is part of a series created in celebration of Moniack Mhor's 30th anniversary, and includes short writing exercises and space for a Q&A.

Join this workshop with Chika Jones to think about ways to include others in their work. You will leave with a better understanding of translation, an improved appreciation for sign language and a renewed interest in inclusivity.

Join Nigerian British poet, playwright, and artist, Tolu Agbelusi in exploring how to write so that people remember, and how to put power into your performance so that you can own any stage

Join us for the Young Writers' Festival workshop with Mariam Alzarooni.

Join this workshop with poet Alycia Pirmohamed. It is aimed at generating new work in a variety of poetic forms and you will look at how contemporary poets use linebreaks and space in their work to construct a narrative.

Join writer and visual artist Amanda Thomson in exploring nature writing. You'll think about nature not in a vacuum, but as something that’s all around us, that impacts on us everyday, from the very personal and local, out into the wider world.

You are invited to join us for an exciting evening of international words and music in Inverness! Writers from West Africa, United Arab Emirates, and Scotland have come together to work with young people through Moniack Mhor's Young Writers Festival to help them find their creative voice and hone their craft - now you can share in that creative energy at this cabaret of performance from all the participating writers, accompanied by music.