22 Feb 2024 / Poetry
If as a poet, you are looking to advance your skills, what is one the best pieces of advice I can…
Read more22 Jan 2024 / General
Going beyond Arvon’s traditional residential courses, Arvon North will work in the heart of northern communities, capturing the diverse stories of…
Read more19 Dec 2023 / News
The SI Leeds Literary Prize proudly announces Haleemah Alaydi as the recipient of the Space to Write Bursary, generously supported by…
Read more14 Nov 2023 / News
Arvon is giving away two free places on upcoming Arvon at Home Online Writing Weeks in December. This opportunity is open…
Read more18 Oct 2023 / News
Arvon to support SI Leeds Literary Prize 2024 with Space to Write Bursary for unpublished female writers of colour.…
Read more25 Sep 2023 / My Arvon Week
Writing Masculinity, writing expansively
Heading to Totleigh Barton for a writing week with tutors Andrew McMillan and Ashley Hickson-Lovence,…
25 Aug 2023 / Uncategorized
This post is from a talk given by Ben Rawlence at The Hurst, March 16 2023. It covers ground many of…
Read more07 Jun 2023 / Lumb Bank
My Arvon Week: Alice McIlroy – from the 1970s to speculative fiction
I was stuck in the 1960s and…
25 Jan 2023 / News
Arvon is delighted to announce that the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2022 has just announced its winners. This year’s competition…
Read more18 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…
Read more06 Sep 2022 / General
Arvon was founded 54 years ago on a belief in the power of the imagination and the benefits of creative writing….
Read more30 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…
Read more20 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…
Read more10 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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