ARVON BLOG
Helen Chadwick in Conversation: Songwriting, Poetry & Tips
20 Apr 2016 / Totleigh Barton
I am interested in the relationship between poetry and songwriting. Do you think there is a difference there and if…
Read moreA Magic Carpet Ride with Arvon – Julie Summers
19 Apr 2016 / My Arvon Journey
When you go on an Arvon writing course anything can happen.
Shutting sixteen people in a remote house with talented, generous…
SLAMbassadors at Arvon
11 Apr 2016 / Lumb Bank
SLAMbassadors UK is a national competition that finds and celebrates the best spoken word produced by young people in the UK….
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How do you write a YA novel now? Narinder Dhami tells us here
15 Mar 2016 / Writing Advice
As a YA writer, where do you draw your inspiration from? And what do you think are the biggest challenges…
Read moreAnnette Brook’s Arvon/Jerwood Week: Silence, Bliss & Writing
24 Feb 2016 / My Arvon Journey
There’s nothing quite like a Arvon retreat. Stepping away from your day to day concerns and focussing entirely on your work…
Read moreEco-Poetry and Engaging with Nature
16 Feb 2016 / General
I’ve always written sporadically about the landscape, but in 2001 I moved to a place called Leadhills, a tiny, former mining…
Read moreTravel/Non-Fiction Writing Tips
10 Feb 2016 / Writing Advice
Non-Fiction writer, journalist and Arvon tutor Lois Pryce shares some useful tips on non-fiction and travel writing.
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Russell Thompson’s Arvon Experience
02 Feb 2016 / Lumb Bank
In 1987 I attempted to enrol on an Arvon course, but it was full up. I decided to sulk about it…
Read moreArvon Freehouse of the Imagination: Russ Litten
25 Jan 2016 / My Arvon Journey
TUTOR DEVELOPMENT WEEK
I came home from Totleigh Barton with a rattle in my boot. It’s there now, if…
Arvon Grants: Emma-Louise Norry’s Arvon Week
19 Jan 2016 / My Arvon Week
I’d wistfully looked at the Arvon brochure for years, pouring over each course title and author tutor as some women might…
Read moreJonathan Asser’s Arvon Journey: From Poetry to Scripts
13 Jan 2016 / My Arvon Journey
My script for Starred Up was drawn from personal experience running a therapeutic group for violent prisoners, and it…
Read moreSpeculative Fiction, What Ifs and Making Things Up
05 Jan 2016 / General
Arvon tutors Joanna Kavenna and Liz Jensen on the pleasures and challenges of writing speculative fiction.Together there’ll…
Read moreMy Arvon Week: Pregnant Pause
22 Dec 2015 / My Arvon Week
I was six months pregnant with my second child and two years pregnant with my first novel when I plucked up…
Read moreWyl Menmuir – From Starting to Write to publication
18 Nov 2015 / General
“Write hard and clear about what hurts”
Advice for writers abounds. Especially online. It’s grand. But I have my…