ARVON BLOG
Jonathan 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…
Cooking and Eating on an Arvon Week
04 Nov 2015 / Arvon Friends
Good food is part of the Arvon Experience:
How and Why
Arvon has a firm commitment to making its…
Read moreTricia Durdey’s Arvon Week
22 Oct 2015 / General
Ten years ago I attended an Arvon course at Lumb Bank – Writing for Young Adults, led by…
Read moreArvon partners with First Story in Creative Writing in Schools programme
06 Oct 2015 / General
Arvon is pleased to announce that it has been named a partner in a new Creative Writing in Schools programme led…
Read moreTheodora Clarke – Arvon Revisited: Starting to Write
24 Sep 2015 / My Arvon Week
I had no idea what to expect when I started the long drive from London to Totleigh Barton in Devon. I…
Read moreKate Williams on Writing History
21 Sep 2015 / General
When it comes to history, research is so important – but it isn’t always the sort of research you can…
My Arvon Week: The Magic of The Hurst
16 Sep 2015 / General
I have been on so many Arvon courses over the past twenty years that I’ve lost count. Five years ago, I…
Read moreMY ARVON WEEK: THE NUMBERS OF PUBLISHING
10 Sep 2015 / General
Vanessa Matthews Shares her Journey: from Totleigh Barton to Published Author
Before I went to an Arvon course I thought the…
3 Titles Drafted, 3 Arvon Courses Wiser and 17 Years Later
11 Aug 2015 / General
Diana Morgan Hill talks about the process of getting her moving memoir Love and Justice finally published.
Diana…
Arvon Alumni Emma Haughton on Becoming a Writer
27 Jul 2015 / My Arvon Week
Something huge happened recently. My first novel, a YA thriller called Now You See Me was picked for the…
Read moreMy Arvon Week: Writing for Radio – Anita MacCallum
15 Jul 2015 / My Arvon Week
Arvon has been shrouded in mystery for some years for me, I’d heard it’s only for real writers, people who take…
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