ARVON BLOG
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…
Read moreCelebrating 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…
Read moreWhat 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…
Read moreMy 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…
Read moreArvon 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…
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…