Join the Moniack Mhor experience online and access top-quality creative writing tuition, develop your craft and share your experiences with a community of writers – all from the comfort of your own sofa, desk or kitchen table.
Our activity includes Moniack in a Month courses, year-round seasons of writing, masterclasses and other one-off events, and an online mentoring scheme. We add new courses and events throughout the year so please keep an eye on our social media and newsletter for updates!
30th Anniversary Celebrations
This year at Moniack Mhor, we are celebrating three decades of supporting creative writing journeys in all walks of life. As we head into our 30th year, we are excited to continue developing our online courses with the same focus on Moniack Mhor’s warm, supportive environment combined with the expertise of skilled and inspirational writers.
We’ll be sharing stories and marking our anniversary in as many ways as we can, from 17th May 2023 to 16th May 2024. In the meantime, we are delighted to introduce the first events in a new online Masterclass series. We look forward to welcoming you through our virtual doors!
Coming Up
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2690 Online Masterclass Day: Tree Meets Sea with Mandy Haggith and Christina Riley
Saturday 25 Apr
Online
Mandy Haggith and Christina Riley join forces for a special day of immersive, non-fiction masterclasses as part of the Highland Book Prize Longlist Series.
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2665 Online: Three Seasons of Poetry with John Glenday – Season 2
Tuesday 5 May - Tuesday 23 Jun
Online Fully Booked
Join poet John Glenday in a sustained, long-term online poetry writing programme designed to stimulate the imagination, examine technique and hone existing skills.
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2666 Online: Moniack in a Month – Fantasy Fiction with Hannah Kaner
Thursday 7 May - Friday 29 May
Online Fully Booked
How do you weave the multiple and dynamic strands of voice, character and world through your story without weighing down the tale? Through four interactive workshops led by Hannah Kaner, you’ll explore the foundations of world-building.
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2683 Online Masterclass: Poetry Translation with Peter Mackay
Wednesday 20 May
Online
This masterclass will explore poetry that lives in-between languages, whether tip-toeing along the edges of those languages or jumping deep into etymological poems.
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2684 Online Masterclass: Writing for Paperboats with Karen Lloyd and Laura Fyfe
Thursday 18 Jun
Online
Paperboats is a Scotland-based collective of writers, global in outlook, who focus on nature and our environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. In this workshop led by Laura Fyfe and Karen Lloyd, participants will be encouraged to find new ways to engage meaningfully with the more-than-human-world.
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2685 Online Masterclass: Creative Responses to Place with Amanda Thomson
Thursday 2 Jul
Online
How might words, images or a mixture of both help communicate the moments, atmospheres, feelings and complexities that you’re looking to capture and convey? This masterclass is about thinking through the ways in which we might give expression to the multifaceted nature of our experiences and encounters with places and spaces in playful and thoughtful ways.
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2669 Online: Moniack in a Month – Non-Fiction Proposal with Caro Clarke and Margaux Vialleron
Tuesday 7 Jul - Thursday 30 Jul
Online
Through four interactive workshops led by Caro Clarke and Margaux Vialleron, you will explore what you need to include in a non-fiction book proposal and how best to present your idea.
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2686 Online Masterclass: Narrative Non-Fiction – Writing from Observation with Neil Ansell
Wednesday 5 Aug
Online
In this masterclass, participants will be asked to consider how best to interpret direct observation in a way which almost makes the reader feel they were there.
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2670 Online: Moniack in a Month – Historical Mystery Fiction with Vaseem Khan
Thursday 3 Sep - Friday 25 Sep
Online
This course will examine key aspects of writing such fiction starting with how to take historical fact and bend it to the service of exciting, well plotted mysteries.
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2671 Online: Moniack in a Month – Non-Fiction with Dan Richards
Thursday 8 Oct - Friday 30 Oct
Online
This course looks at how to write engaging, informative narrative non-fiction that inspires and connects with readers.
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2687 Online Masterclass: Writing for Audio – Arresting Character with Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Wednesday 21 Oct
Online
This Masterclass will provide a fun and practical method of finding out more about your character by asking them some detailed and searching questions.
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2672 Online: Moniack in a Month – Character-Driven Novel Writing with Diana Evans
Thursday 5 Nov - Friday 27 Nov
Online
In this course with novelist Diana Evans, you will explore ways of bringing characters to life so that they are ‘off the page’ and memorable.
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2688 Online Masterclass: Gothic Fiction with C. J. Cooke
Tuesday 1 Dec
Online
Join CJ Cooke to immerse yourself in the gothic and learn how to write atmospheric, eerie, supernatural fiction.
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