ARVON BLOG
Wendy Cope – Arvon 50
02 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50
When I began writing poetry in the early 1970s I didn’t know anyone else who wrote poetry or had a serious…
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The day that remembered itself – Jennifer Liston
26 Mar 2019 / #Arvon50
The day that remembered itself
Sylvia Plath is buried in St. Thomas’s churchyard in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire.…
Jerwood/Arvon Mentees Announced
21 Mar 2019 / News
Arvon and Jerwood Arts are delighted to announce the 2019/20 cohort of Jerwood/Arvon mentees. These nine emerging writers were selected out…
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Fred D’Aguiar – Arvon at 50
19 Mar 2019 / #Arvon50
We called them the two Johns, John Moat and John Fairfax, after the two Ronnies, but out of awe at their…
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Gavin Dimmock – Finding Love at Lumb Bank
12 Feb 2019 / #Arvon50
In May 1984, my O levels were finishing and I couldn’t wait to leave school behind and start my life in…
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Arvon appoints Andrew Kidd as Chief Executive and Artistic Director
11 Feb 2019 / News
Arvon is delighted to announce that Andrew Kidd has been appointed as its new Chief Executive and Artistic Director. Andrew Kidd…
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Jean Atkin – A Shropshire Dimpsey, in Hurst Rough
29 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50
A Shropshire Dimpsey, in Hurst Rough
Lamp to our path, that dandelion globe has made
full moon above the…
Elise Valmorbida – Suitcase Stories
22 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50
I have just returned from Ted Hughes’ house in deepest greenest beautiful West Yorkshire. I’ve been teaching ‘Suitcase Stories’, a course…
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Irene Hossack – The Literary Life
15 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50
The Literary Life
I have found my place at Lumb Bank,
a wooden bench outside the communal dining room,
away from…
Ben Bransfield – #Arvon50
08 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50
It was an English teacher at school who first introduced me to the word ‘Arvon’, after having seen that creative writing…
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Carmina Masoliver – Shaneeka is not your friend anymore
03 Jan 2019 / #Arvon50
I was fortunate enough to be taken on a funded Arvon course by Apples & Snakes as part of The Writing…
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Wyl Menmuir – #Arvon50
26 Dec 2018 / #Arvon50
I wrote the first thousand words of what became my debut novel at a small desk overlooking the fields at the…
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Teresa Cremin – I won’t have to write will I?
18 Dec 2018 / #Arvon50
“I won’t have to write will I?” whispered Nicky as she entered the Totleigh Barton barn, “I’ve come to learn about…
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Peter Leyland – What we did on our holidays
11 Dec 2018 / #Arvon50
What do marketing analysts, postgraduate history scholars, Information Technology librarians, and recently retired teachers have in common? Answer – they don’t…
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