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Tips for continuing writing once your Arvon course is over

01 Jul 2014 / Writing Advice

You’ve finished your Arvon course and returned home to your family, work, and a week’s worth of laundry. How…

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“Instead, I wrote”: Jennifer Watson’s Arvon week

20 Jun 2014 / General

by Jennifer Watson, a writer on a Fiction Retreat at Moniack Mhor 9-14 July 2014, tutored by Morag Joss and…

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ARVON APPOINTS ALISTAIR BURTENSHAW AS CHAIR

12 Jun 2014 / Chief Executive

From Ruth Borthwick, Chief Executive, Arvon
Arvon is at a very special moment in its 46 year old history as we…

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A Grand Opening at The Hurst offers a way back to the past

29 May 2014 / The Hurst

By Gabriela Blandy, Assistant Centre Director, The Hurst
 
‘Don’t leave The Hurst!’ John Osborne was to say to…

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“Writing into being”: Anthea Morrison’s Arvon week

28 May 2014 / My Arvon Week

by Anthea Morrison, a writer on a Fiction week at The Hurst  May 12 – 17, tutored by Andrew Miller…

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The Gillian Hush Award – a fully funded place on Writing for Radio

23 May 2014 / General

For the second year Arvon is pleased to present The Gillian Hush Award for writers of radio drama. The…

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Celebrating The Hurst

19 May 2014 / General

Earlier this month we spent a spring afternoon in the ‘blue remembered hills’ to celebrate the opening of The Hurst, The…

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What I Took Home: ‘Poetry: The Lyrical Impulse’ at Totleigh Barton

14 May 2014 / General

by Hannah Copley, a writer on a Poetry week at Totleigh Barton  Apr 23- May 3, tutored by Mimi Khalvati…

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My Arvon Week – Queer Fiction

28 Apr 2014 / Lumb Bank

Ahead of this year’s Queer Fiction week at Lumb Bank with Kerry Hudson and Jonathan Kemp at Lumb Bank (find out…

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Arvon and Moniack Mhor

23 Apr 2014 / News

From April 2015, Arvon courses will no longer be held at Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre near Inverness. Moniack Mhor…

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Cindy George – My Arvon City Weekend

07 Apr 2014 / My Arvon Week

Alongside our residential weeks, each year we run Arvon City, a programme of non-residential weekend courses in urban…

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MICHAEL BALDWIN by John Moat

27 Mar 2014 / General

Michael Baldwin’s gone, died in February. When The Arts Council, following Fairfax’s and my report on the first Arvon course, granted…

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Sophie Good’s Arvon week – Playwriting

21 Feb 2014 / General

Sophie Good blogs about her week at Lumb Bank in November last year for ‘Theatre – Exploring and exploding ideas’ with…

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Michael Baldwin, a great friend to Arvon

20 Feb 2014 / Chief Executive

We were greatly saddened to hear of the death of  the poet and novelist Michael Baldwin, a  wonderful friend to Arvon….

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