Online masterclasses with experienced and skilled writers, all supported by the Moniack Mhor team and delivered with the same warm welcome as our residential courses.
If there are no masterclasses listed below, please check back later or enquire at online@moniackmhor.org.uk
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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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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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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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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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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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