ARVON BLOG
My Arvon Week: Alice McIlroy
07 Jun 2023 / Lumb Bank
My Arvon Week: Alice McIlroy – from the 1970s to speculative fiction
I was stuck in the 1960s and…
Ledbury Poetry Competition 2022 Winners Announced
25 Jan 2023 / News
Arvon is delighted to announce that the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2022 has just announced its winners. This year’s competition…
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My Arvon Journey: Rod Vincent
18 Nov 2022 / Lumb Bank
It’s a misty autumn morning in Shropshire and I’ve just come back from a walk under a hailstorm of acorns. We…
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Arvon is looking for new trustees
06 Sep 2022 / General
Arvon was founded 54 years ago on a belief in the power of the imagination and the benefits of creative writing….
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Lumb Bank Heritage Open Day – Saturday 10 September
30 Aug 2022 / Lumb Bank
Come and explore Arvon’s Writing House, Lumb Bank, during Heritage Open Day. Formerly the home of poet Ted Hughes, Lumb Bank…
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My Writing Journey: Mandy Redvers-Rowe
20 May 2022 / Access
After some early success as a sketch writer, I had a sort of burn-out, and dropped out of the industry. If…
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Arvon to receive £725,000 from Arts Council England’s Capital Investment Programme
10 May 2022 / Chief Executive
Arvon is delighted to announce it has been awarded £725,000 to redevelop Lumb Bank, one of…
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Arvon Sponsoring Aesthetica Writing Award
01 Apr 2022 / News
Arvon is pleased to be partnering with the renowned Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. Now in its 16th year,…
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Arvon appoints Patricia Cumper as new Chair
03 Feb 2022 / General
Arvon has appointed Patricia Cumper as its new Chair.
Andrew Kidd, Chief Executive of Arvon, said: ‘Arvon is deeply…
My Arvon Journey – Peter Stott
14 Jan 2022 / My Arvon Journey
At secondary school, I was fascinated by the twin challenges of solving mathematical problems and writing stories. But those two obsessions…
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My Arvon Week: Sarah Corbett – Bodies Lined with Gold
25 Nov 2021 / My Arvon Week
Bodies Lined with Gold: Lumb Bank, The Arvon Foundation, August 1996 by Sarah Corbett
Sometime early in 1996 a…
Jane Feaver – The Stories We Tell
03 Nov 2021 / The Stories We Tell
‘I’: 26 reflections on the fiction of self
Mæg ic be me sylfum soðgied wrecan
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My Arvon Journey – Sarah Baylis
17 Aug 2021 / My Arvon Journey
Perhaps it all begins with the voice.
What I remember most clearly now is Mrs Jenkins reading to us from …
My Arvon Journey – Hannah Storm
14 Jul 2021 / My Arvon Journey
As a child I dreamt of being a writer, of travelling the world and telling stories. Journalism offered me the opportunity…
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