ARVON BLOG
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…
Read moreMICHAEL 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…
Read moreSophie 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…
Read moreMichael 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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Lochend School at Lumb Bank
19 Feb 2014 / Lumb Bank
Gordon Fisher blogs about his experience of bringing a school group to Arvon.
On Monday, 13th of January of this year,…
Dread is the heckler in the room who doesn’t know when to stop
11 Feb 2014 / The Hurst
The Hurst’s Gabriela Blandy blogs about dread and inspiration…
I visited The Hurst a few years ago for a week of…
Barbara Jenkins’ Tobago Writing Retreat
22 Jan 2014 / General
Photograph by Elspeth Duncan, Tobago
The Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize is an annual award which allows an emerging Caribbean writer…
Write to Unite – competition for young writers
15 Jan 2014 / News
Arvon has teamed up with Kick it Out – football’s equality and inclusion campaign, currently marking its 20 year…
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I know the house and its ghosts – final post from The Hurst’s writer-in-residence
08 Jan 2014 / The Hurst
Deb Alma signs off her writing residency at The Hurst
“Strangely as relief centre assistant at The Hurst before…
Drumroll please! Gabriela Blandy on joining team Hurst
10 Dec 2013 / The Hurst
Joining The Hurst this week has reminded me about the months I spent in a dilapidated hotel on the Pacific Coast….
Read moreAre better habits the secret to writing success?
05 Dec 2013 / Lumb Bank
by Rebecca Evans
Over the years I’ve worked for Arvon I’ve encountered several mysteries, including:
the precise role of…
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Coming home to Arvon – Starting to Write in E17
04 Dec 2013 / Schools and Groups
By Becky Swain, Head of Learning and Participation, Arvon
This month I was delighted to host a three…
“There’s a certain slant of light” or Henry’s Arvon Adventure
03 Dec 2013 / My Arvon Week
By H. A Myers, a writer on the Lumb Bank, Fiction course 11-16 November 2013 with tutors Kate Long and…
Read more‘A meteorite hitting the earth’ – Ruth Borthwick blogs about teaching Creative Writing
02 Dec 2013 / Chief Executive
Last Saturday I was in Birmingham at the excellent Writers’ Toolkit annual event devised by Writing West Midlands. I chaired a…
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