04 Jun 2019 / #Arvon50
Being a writer is a solitary business: we sit and write for hours. We all do it differently, in different places,…
Read more29 May 2019 / The Hurst
Sketching Hurst Impressions with My Long White Cane
by Loraine Howard
My eyes tell lies and shutting…
Read more28 May 2019 / #Arvon50
When you go on an Arvon writing course anything can happen. Shutting sixteen people in a remote house with talented, generous…
Read more21 May 2019 / #Arvon50
When I was just about to graduate from undergraduate study, Arvon began to run a scheme, connected to an anniversary, where…
Read more16 May 2019 / #Arvon50
In March 2014 I spent five days at the beautiful Arvon Lumb Bank site and it was (unusually) basked in sunshine…
Read more07 May 2019 / #Arvon50
When I first arrived at Lumb Bank, the taxi driver who delivered me from Hebden Bridge told me how lucky I…
Read more30 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50
Lumb Bank Thursday
by Nicky Bull
They’re in tonight
The Lumb Bank lot
Lured out like a charmer’s…
23 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50
Arriving home, somewhat wacked, leaving Lumb Bank was not so much a flurry of goodbyes but a time to ponder many…
Read more09 Apr 2019 / #Arvon50
OAK
By Tim Martindale
I am oak.
I am one and I am many.
The sentry guarding the…
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…
Read more26 Mar 2019 / #Arvon50
The day that remembered itself
Sylvia Plath is buried in St. Thomas’s churchyard in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire.…
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…
Read more19 Mar 2019 / #Arvon50
We called them the two Johns, John Moat and John Fairfax, after the two Ronnies, but out of awe at their…
Read more12 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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