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!
All Online Courses
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2561 Online: A Year of Writing with Elizabeth Reeder – Season 2
Wed 8th Jan - Wed 26th Mar
Online Fully Booked
Join Elizabeth Reeder online as you work on your long-form fiction or creative non-fiction project. This course offers an open, supportive, dedicated space for you to write a work-in-progress in the company of other writers, with Elizabeth building and holding a kind and supportive frame within which we can do our best work. Includes craft sessions, writing spaces, group feedback, one-to-one tutorials and the chance to share your work with your group.
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2560 Online: Moniack in a Month – Writing the Gothic with Natasha Pulley
Thu 16th Jan - Fri 7th Feb
Online
Join award-winning writer Natasha Pulley to delve deeper into what makes our spines tingle. A 4-week online writing course that will help you wrestle a great Gothic idea into a shape that feels like a story or even a novel.
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2580 Online: Editing Short Non-Fiction Masterclass – with Paul Fleckney
Wed 12th Feb
Online
Join Paul Fleckney, editor of The Guardian’s Country Diary column, for this 2-hour online masterclass exploring the principles of how you approach, edit and finalise a short piece of non-fiction. The focus will be on nature writing, but skills learned will be transferable to all non-fiction writing. Includes Q&A opportunities.
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2581 Online: Poetry Workshop – with Nalini Paul
Tue 25th Feb
Online
Join poet and nature-lover Nalini Paul in this two-hour online poetry workshop. You will engage in a range of inspiring writing exercises to get the ideas flowing, look at examples of nature poetry and find new ways of unlocking the ideas that might lie trapped within your mind, just waiting to spring onto the page (or screen).
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2562 Online: Moniack in a Month – Memoir with Chitra Ramaswamy
Tue 4th Mar - Thu 27th Mar
Online
Join author and journalist Chitra Ramaswamy online for a month to excavate the profoundly complex, generous, and rewarding process of writing about oneself. A 4-week online course, with guest writer, Amy Key.
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2582 Online Masterclass: Neurodivergent Approaches to Repetition 1 – with Debris Stevenson
Tue 18th Mar
Online
Let’s repeat: sounds, words, movements, music. This session draws from Debris’ experience of a multi-sensory ‘polylogue’, a mind filled with conversation, smells, textures, dances, images and sounds. By the end of the session we will devise new writing tasks and techniques, processes and forms, drawn from observations of our individual minds.
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2583 Online Masterclass: Neurodivergent Approaches to Repetition 2 – with Hannah Silva
Thu 20th Mar
Online
How can repetition change us and our writing, transforming into new ideas, meanings and revelations? Do your thoughts loop? Do you replay dialogue over and over? Does your mind glitch on a particularly tasty word? How does this impact how you write? Through examples, exercises and exchange this session will unlock nooks in your writing minds.
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2579 Online Guest Writer Event: Memoir – Amy Key in conversation with Chitra Ramaswamy
Thu 20th Mar
Online
In this one-hour online session delivered via Zoom, writer Amy Key will read from her work and be in conversation with Chitra Ramaswamy, writer and tutor of Moniack in a Month: Memoir. Includes a short time for questions from our audience.
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2563 Online: Moniack in a Month – Crime Fiction with Abir Mukherjee
Mon 7th Apr - Wed 30th Apr
Online
Unlock the secrets to writing compelling crime fiction in this engaging and intensive online course led by crime writer Abir Mukherjee. Perfect for new writers, this course will dive into all the essentials you’ll need to keep your readers on the edge of their seats.
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2584 Online Masterclass: Intention – with A.L. Kennedy
Wed 9th Apr
Online
When we write, we may set out without a clear sense of direction, or we may begin before we are quite ready to write. It’s easy to lose our direction, or to never quite find it and therefore to lose momentum of projects that might otherwise succeed. Join A.L. Kennedy to explore how you can clarify who you are as a writer in this time and in this world. How best can you prepare yourself and your work so that you can write effectively in an organic and unified way?
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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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2565 Online: Moniack in a Month – Writing into Grief with Pragya Agarwal
Thu 5th Jun - Sat 28th Jun
Online
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 Agarwhal online for a supportive month of workshops focusing on processing grief and loss into words
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