ARVON BLOG
Welcome to the 2015 Course Programme
07 Jan 2015 / Chief Executive
Ruth Borthwick, Chief Executive
It’s amazing to think that it is 40 years since Arvon started running courses…
PD JAMES AND ARVON
01 Dec 2014 / General
by Simon Brett
It is frequently said that crime writers are a benign and friendly lot, and of no…
PD James
27 Nov 2014 / Chief Executive
Everyone at Arvon is very sad to hear of the death of PD James. She was one of our most supportive…
Read moreMiranda 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…
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