ARVON BLOG
Verb New Voices seeks talented Northern writers
25 Oct 2013 / Lumb Bank
Calling talented writers in the North
Verb New Voices is looking for three talented artists based in the North of England…
Read moreArvon Friend Jude Brown’s Writing Journey
17 Oct 2013 / Arvon Friends
Arvon Friends support our work with disadvantaged young people and adults; joining costs from £30 a year and benefits include being…
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My week at Lumb Bank: Jilly Munro
14 Oct 2013 / Lumb Bank
Poetic Licentiousness
Jilly Munro blogs about her week on a Poetry course at Lumb Bank October 7 –…
This is is the month of weeds: From The Hurst writer-in-residence
11 Oct 2013 / The Hurst
Working at The Hurst, Halloween 2012
She floats up in the light of the torch,
her moss green thighs with the…
Wil Law’s Arvon Week: Food Writing
04 Oct 2013 / My Arvon Week
Wil Law aka The Gingerbread Lad talks about a week of writing, eating and cooking at Totleigh Barton- and why…
Read moreOne step Forward, two steps back
02 Oct 2013 / Chief Executive
It’s great news that Michael Symmons Roberts, wonderful poet and tutor and Arvon Trustee, has won the 2013 Forward Prize for…
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Theatre groups always construct a ghost: new post from The Hurst writer-in-residence
12 Sep 2013 / The Hurst
Theatre Groups
Occasionally someone will say
that the main house has a cold and unfriendly feel
and that it’s…
A great tree has fallen in the forest: Arvon mourns Seamus Heaney
30 Aug 2013 / Chief Executive
From Ruth Borthwick, Chief Executive, Arvon
We at Arvon are shocked to hear that Seamus Heaney has died suddenly. Seamus was…
Jennifer Richardson’s Arvon Week: Several Rooms of One’s Own
29 Aug 2013 / Lumb Bank
I spent the first week of October 2010 at an Arvon retreat at Lumb Bank. I was there to work on…
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The Opportunity
19 Aug 2013 / News
The Opportunity
Extract from The Founding of Arvon by John Moat
1968, the year the Revolution almost…
Mother Tongues: Leeds Co-operative Academy at Lumb Bank
14 Aug 2013 / Lumb Bank
Mother Tongues is an Arvon project funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation, which encourages young people to write in both English and…
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In 2011 I was still driving a cab – Ishy Din’s Arvon Story
09 Aug 2013 / Lumb Bank
In 2011 I was still driving a cab, although my first full length play, Snookered was yet to be…
Read moreHelen Cadbury’s Arvon Week
07 Aug 2013 / My Arvon Week
When I booked my week at the Arvon Centre at Moniack Mhor, I was desperate for it to be a good…
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