ARVON BLOG
Ruth Borthwick announces her departure
08 Nov 2018 / Chief Executive
Arvon today announces that Ruth Borthwick will step down in April 2019, after a decade as Artistic Director and Chief Executive….
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Lois Pryce – Arvon at 50
06 Nov 2018 / #Arvon50
In the mid-90s, aged 22, I landed my dream job at an indie record label. This was mainly due to a…
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Katrina Naomi – The Best View in England
30 Oct 2018 / #Arvon50
#Arvon50
Arvon is 50 this year and to celebrate we have collected the stories of writers…
Marcus Sedgwick – This is it
23 Oct 2018 / #Arvon50
‘This is it’
It was a cold and rainy winter’s evening and the weather whipped around Ted Hughes’ old…
Roger Robinson – Arvon: A Clear Space
16 Oct 2018 / #Arvon50
Arvon: A Clear Space
You’ve needed this trip, you’ve committed
you’re in the room and you feel guilt, guilt…
Emylia Hall – Coming Home
09 Oct 2018 / #Arvon50
#Arvon50
Arvon is 50 this year and to celebrate we have collected the stories of writers far and…
Hannah Lowe – The Calmness of Sheep
02 Oct 2018 / #Arvon50
I took my first Arvon course about ten years ago, at Totleigh Barton, with George Szirtes and Helen Ivory. I was…
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Liz Jensen – Arvon at 50
27 Sep 2018 / #Arvon50
Today, with eight novels behind me, I look back with bafflement at the amount of guilt I felt when I signed…
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Romany Romany – Spun Into Gold
04 Sep 2018 / #Arvon50
#Arvon50
Arvon is 50 this year and to celebrate we have collected the stories of writers far and…
Sandra Bell – Creative writing is like making whipped cream
21 Aug 2018 / #Arvon50
#Arvon50
Arvon is 50 this year and to celebrate we have collected the stories of writers far and…
Jess Richards – SkinStiltRumple, Remembered Wrong
07 Aug 2018 / General
One of the many wonderful things about Arvon is sometimes getting the chance to do the writing tasks set by other…
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David Morley – #Arvon50
31 Jul 2018 / #Arvon50
I had never tutored a blind person. Victoria was blind. She had been thrown from a horse some years ago: the…
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Mahsuda Snaith – From Secret Writer to Arvon Tutor
24 Jul 2018 / #Arvon50
Moniack Mhor 2003: I am a young, Asian student from an inner-city council estate who writes mostly in secret. I have…
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Sally Harrop – The Hurst – #Arvon50
18 Jul 2018 / #Arvon50
#Arvon50
Arvon is 50 this year and to celebrate we have collected the stories of writers far and…