A month of weekly online workshops and feedback from an experienced and skilled writer, and including a guest writer event, all supported by the Moniack Mhor team and delivered with the same warm welcome as our residential courses and retreats. Courses usually include up to 12 participants.
If there are no courses listed below, please check back later or enquire at online@moniackmhor.org.uk
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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 - 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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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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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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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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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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