Moniack Mhor: Poetry for Resistance and Survival with Hannah Lavery and Harry Josephine Giles, Guest Reader Roger Robinson
How can writing make change for our lives and our world? How can poetry be turned to protest, and how can words offer comfort to those who need it?
In this course, we’ll inspire each to write politically, to try out techniques that challenge power, and to explore strategies of creative activism. We’ll look at the possibilities and pitfalls of methods like satire, witness, testimony and celebration, finding ways to write meaningfully for ourselves and our times.
This course is for anyone who’s interested in writing that meets the challenges of our times, whether that’s as part of activist movements, as a way to deal with personal struggles, or simply as an honest response to the world.
Using inspiring reading, collective discussion, writing prompts and supportive one-to-ones, we’ll strengthen our writing skills, our toolbox of creative possibilities, our ideas about how to meet the challenges of political work, and our ability to support each other as writers engaged with the world.
Dates: Monday 8 - Saturday 13 September 2025
Location: Moniack Mhor, Kiltarlity, Inverness-shire, IV4 7HT
Cost: £725-£675
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