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 home.
Our activity includes Moniack in a Month courses, year-round seasons of writing, masterclasses and other one-off events, and an online mentoring programme. We add new courses and events throughout the year so please keep an eye on our social media and newsletter for updates!
All Online Courses
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2564 Online: Moniack in a Month – Demystifying Poetry with Ella Frears
Wed 7th May - Fri 30th May
Online
In this course you’ll look carefully at different elements of poetry writing, demystifying things like line breaks, shape, rhythm, rhyme, voice, language, and form. You will write new poems – trying on these techniques, seeing how they feel and exploring what they can do for you and your work.
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2585 Online Highland Book Prize Event: The Lost Voices of Orkney with Peter Marshall
Thu 8th May
Online
How can we hear the voices of ordinary folk, when we are forced to rely on fragmentary sources seldom created with their perspectives in mind? Drawing from his work on Orkney – a place long considered peripheral to the ‘real’ history of Scotland and Britain – historian Peter Marshall seeks to answer that question in this 90-minute online event.
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2565 Online: Moniack in a Month – Writing into Grief with Pragya Agarwal
Thu 5th Jun - Fri 27th Jun
Online
Finding Hope from Loss: Writing from a place of pain, about people and things that are no longer with us can be really hard. How do we write into our grief rather than around it? Join writer and academic Pragya Agarwal online for a supportive month of workshops focusing on processing grief and loss into words
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2586 Online Masterclass: Inhabiting your Fiction with Cynan Jones
Thu 3rd Jul
Online
This online masterclass will demonstrate how existing sentences can be interrogated for narrative opportunities you may not otherwise have considered and as starting points to enrich description and action so that you can create a more inhabited, encompassing story.
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2587 Online Songs Masterclass with Boo Hewerdine: Session 1 – What Makes a Song Work?
Tue 29th Jul
Online
Join Boo Hewerdine to examine the reasons why a song may or may not work. Boo will take both a well-known song and one of his own songs and look at lyrics, melody, chord progressions and the editing process.
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2568 Online: Moniack in a Month – Building Fictional Worlds with Liz Hyder
Tue 29th Jul - Thu 21st Aug
Online
Join award-winning novelist Liz Hyder online for a month to explore the joyful art of harnessing your imagination to build fictional worlds.
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2588 Online Songs Masterclass with Boo Hewerdine: Session 2 – Get Your Song Studio Ready
Thu 14th Aug
Online
In this masterclass, Boo Hewerdine will critique a selection of your pre-submitted songs to examine what makes a song studio ready.
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2569 Online: Moniack in a Month – Historical Fiction with Victoria MacKenzie
Tue 2nd Sep - Thu 25th Sep
Online
Join historical novelist Victoria Mackenzie for a lively 4-week online course exploring the art of writing compelling and vivid historical fiction. Aimed at anyone interested in writing a historical novel, whether you’ve already completed a draft or just have the first spark of an idea.
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2589 Online Masterclass: Introduction to Screenwriting with Rachelle Atalla
Thu 18th Sep
Online
Join award-winning screenwriter and novelist Rachelle Atalla for a session exploring the key elements required in creating stories for screen.
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2590 Online Masterclass: Writing Audio Drama with Katie Hims
Mon 6th Oct
Online
In this class we’ll talk about the possibilities that audio drama offers you the writer, listen to extracts of plays and do an exercise in acoustics and sound effects. Includes a short Q&A.
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2570 Online: Moniack in a Month – Poetry with Purpose with Joelle Taylor
Tue 7th Oct - Thu 30th Oct
Online
A poem is never just a poem. Join Joelle Taylor to consider how we write poetry that can be practically applied. Write new material, read widely, discuss freely and imagine a future as a professional writer and poet.
There are two full-fee bursaries available for this course for UK-based writers who experience marginalisation.
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2591 Online Masterclass: Story Structure for Crime Writers with Liam McIlvanney
Mon 20th Oct
Online
How do you fit the various elements of a crime novel into a coherent narrative structure? This session provides practice in identifying and deploying the key structural components of crime narrative.
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2592 Online Masterclass: Dialogue for Crime Writers with Liam McIlvanney
Mon 27th Oct
Online
Crime fiction is a dialogue-driven genre. This session introduces the key principles and techniques involved in crafting compelling dialogue in crime fiction.
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2571 Online: Moniack in a Month – Writing for the Theatre with Douglas Maxwell
Mon 3rd Nov - Wed 26th Nov
Online
This is a friendly, fun and comprehensive guide to all the aspects of the playwright’s job. It will answer your questions and demystify the process of writing for the theatre – the most sociable and exciting form of creative writing.
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2572 Online: Moniack in a Month – Travel Writing with Miranda France
Tue 25th Nov - Thu 18th Dec
Online
Learn how to look at and describe worlds both strange and familiar and how to shape this into a story that others will want to read. Through texts and images, interviews, conversation and written exercises, you’ll think about different approaches to describing nature, cities, cultures and people, both for books and shorter texts.
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