Date/Time
Date(s) - Mon 14th Jul - Sat 19th Jul, 2025
All Day
Location
Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire , IV4 7HT
Make Real Progress on Your Work-in-Progress!
Do you have a work-in-progress you’d like to complete, evolve, improve? Or perhaps you are facing the challenges of moving from a first draft to final piece? This is where the support and encouragement of experienced professionals can work wonders. On this course, writers Kevin MacNeil and Jessie Greengrass will help you navigate through frequently encountered obstacles including pace, setting, and dialogue. They will show you how to strengthen your work’s foundations by considering meaning, purpose, and direction. Through workshops and 1-2-1 sessions, they will help you shape your manuscript into the best version of itself that it can be.
Tutors
Jessie Greengrass is the author of two novels: The High House, which was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize 2021, the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022 and the Encore Award 2022, and Sight (2018), which was shortlisted for the 2018 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her collection of short stories, An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw it was published in 2015. It won the Edge Hill Prize 2016, a Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times PFD Young Writer of the Year Award.
Kevin MacNeil is a leading Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and screenwriter, born and raised in the Outer Hebrides. His most recent novel, The Brilliant & Forever, was published to huge critical acclaim and was shortlisted for the Saltire Fiction of the Year Award. ‘The Brilliant & Forever 2022’, a literary festival themed around the novel, took place in front of Lews Castle in August 2022. Kevin recently edited Robert Louis Stevenson – An Anthology selected by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges. Kevin has won a number of prestigious literary awards. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. He invented Hai Cookery and lives with his rescue greyhound, Molly.
Guest Reader
Lesley Glaister is the prize-winning author of 17 novels. Her most recent pair are Blasted Things and A Particular Man. She has also published short stories and poetry, and drama for both stage and BBC Radio 4. Alongside her own writing, Lesley enjoys teaching Creative Writing at all levels from one-off workshops to post-graduate degree courses, most recently at the University of St Andrews. Lesley lives in Edinburgh with her husband, writer Andrew Greig. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently works as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.
Fees
The full fee for this course is £725. This includes your accommodation in a single room with shared bathroom, all meals, hot drinks and snacks from Monday afternoon until Saturday morning, and your tuition. For more information about the practicalities of our courses and retreats, please visit our About the Courses page.
A limited number of en-suite rooms are available, which can be booked in advance for a £50 surcharge. We will also reserve an en-suite room for anyone who may need it due to a medical condition. This will be offered out as an upgrade nearer the course start date if it is not needed.
A limited number of Twin Room places are available at a discounted price of £675 per person. When booking a Twin Room place, please tell us in the comments box which gender you are and which gender(s) you are comfortable sharing a room with. This information will remain confidential.
A small single room with a skylight is available at a discounted price of £700. Please note this room does not have an ordinary window, only a small skylight.
A deposit is required to secure your place, which is non-refundable after a 14-day cooling-off period. The balance payment of £475 is due six weeks before the course begins. Refunds are not always available – please read our Terms & Conditions for full details about our cancellation policy. If you would like to pay the full amount in advance, please call our booking office on 01463 592 828 or email info@moniackmhor.org.uk.
Bursaries are always available, and you also have the option to pay in instalments. If you have any problems paying online, or wish to discuss paying in instalments or applying for financial help, or would simply like assistance, please contact us by emailing info@moniackmhor.org.uk or phoning us on 01463 592828.
Access
Please let us know in your booking form if you have any access requirements, for example a ground floor bedroom and / or access to a step-free accessible shower room. We also reserve one en-suite bedroom per course for anyone who may need this due to a medical condition. For more information about access to our courses, please visit our Access page.
Terms and Conditions
Please read our Terms & Conditions before booking.