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…
Read more20 Jun 2014 / General
by Jennifer Watson, a writer on a Fiction Retreat at Moniack Mhor 9-14 July 2014, tutored by Morag Joss and…
Read more12 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…
29 May 2014 / The Hurst
By Gabriela Blandy, Assistant Centre Director, The Hurst
‘Don’t leave The Hurst!’ John Osborne was to say to…
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…
Read more23 May 2014 / General
For the second year Arvon is pleased to present The Gillian Hush Award for writers of radio drama. The…
Read more19 May 2014 / General
Earlier this month we spent a spring afternoon in the ‘blue remembered hills’ to celebrate the opening of The Hurst, The…
Read more14 May 2014 / General
by Hannah Copley, a writer on a Poetry week at Totleigh Barton Apr 23- May 3, tutored by Mimi Khalvati…
Read more28 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…
Read more23 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…
Read more07 Apr 2014 / My Arvon Week
Alongside our residential weeks, each year we run Arvon City, a programme of non-residential weekend courses in urban…
Read more27 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…
Read more21 Feb 2014 / General
Sophie Good blogs about her week at Lumb Bank in November last year for ‘Theatre – Exploring and exploding ideas’ with…
Read more20 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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