ARVON BLOG
Miranda Peake’s Arvon Week
27 Nov 2014 / My Arvon Week
Miranda Peake blogs about her writing journey, from Arvon to winning the Mslexia Poetry Prize, including a poem she wrote…
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On not making things up – by Diana McCaulay
24 Nov 2014 / General
Diana McCaulay is this year’s winner of the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writer’s Prize. The prize is an annual award which…
Read moreNatasha Carlish’s Arvon Week
28 Oct 2014 / General
My Arvon Week – Starting to Write a Novel with Chris Wakling and Tiffany Murray
The Hurst Centre…
The conundrum that the notebook solves
24 Oct 2014 / General
Gabriela Blandy, Assistant Centre Director at The Hurst, on keeping a notebook
If there is a knock at the…
John Moat by Peter Oswald
23 Oct 2014 / General
Arvon is pleased to publish an appreciation of John Moat by playwright Peter Oswald.
JOHN MOAT…
Lumb Bank Fun Palace
14 Oct 2014 / General
Lumb Fun for the Day
Bec Evans was one of over 300 people who visited the Lumb Bank…
Keeping your Arvon group going
09 Oct 2014 / General
Keeping your Arvon group going
An Arvon course can be an intense week – you’re thrown together with a…
John Moat 1936—2014
18 Sep 2014 / Chief Executive
We are very sad to announce that John Moat, co-founder of Arvon with John Fairfax, has died. We understand that John…
Read moreSustaining an Arvon week
17 Sep 2014 / My Arvon Week
Gabriela Blandy, Assistant Centre Director at The Hurst, blogs about her return home after an Arvon week.
There’s no…
The Gift of a Poem – Julius Smit’s Arvon Week
01 Sep 2014 / Lumb Bank
On a breezy sunny August afternoon I got off the train at Hebden Bridge with my rucksack and found myself re-tracing…
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Radio Drama – Matthew Miller’s Arvon Week
29 Aug 2014 / My Arvon Week
On Monday July 21st, I travelled down to stunningly sunny Devon to learn about the art of writing for radio at…
Read more‘I’m a writer’ – Colette Watson’s Arvon Aftermath
26 Aug 2014 / My Arvon Week
by Colette Watson, a writer on the Starting to Write Short Stories week at Lumb Bank 4-9 August 2014…
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Beta readers – the benefits of a critiquing partnership
14 Aug 2014 / General
Writing can be a lonely business when you’re holed up in the attic hammering out your masterpiece. It’s easy to lose…
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Use Your Loaf – Vicki Lloyd’s Arvon week
30 Jul 2014 / General
Vicki Lloyd writes about her week of writing eating at Totleigh Barton…
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Deepest Devon for Writing…