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COURSES & RETREATS

Arvon writing houses are open for Residential Writing Weeks and Retreats. We also have a full Arvon at Home online programme of Online Writing Weeks, Masterclasses, 1-1s and free How I Write events.

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Type

Genre

Location

Jun 8

Online

Poetry

Black Poets Masterclass: African Poets, Part 2

With Dzifa Benson

Dzifa Benson

Jun 9

Online

Fiction, Non-Fiction, Starting to Write

Online Writing Day: Create a Sustainable Writing Habit

Start writing and keep going

Bec Evans
Guest: Ed Wilson

Jun 9

Online

Non-Fiction, Other

Masterclass: Nature Writing

Writing nature now

Joanna Pocock

Jun 12-16

Online

Non-Fiction

Online Writing Week: Memoir

Everyone Has a Story

Amy Liptrot
Kerry Hudson
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Jun 12-17

Lumb Bank

Poetry

Residential Writing Week: Poetry

Ecopoetic Mischief

Caleb Parkin
Jen Hadfield
Guest: Rachael Allen

Jun 12-17

The Hurst

Fiction

Residential Writing Week: Fiction

What makes a novel work

Jarred McGinnis
Kerry Young
Guest: Heather Parry
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Jun 12-17

Totleigh Barton

Fiction, Non-Fiction, Starting to Write

Residential Writing Week: Starting to Write Fiction & Non-Fiction

Telling true and imagined stories

Horatio Clare
Tiffany Murray
Guest: Musa Okwonga
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Jun 13

Online

Poetry

Masterclass: Poetry

Looking at Imagery with a Watchmaker's Eye

Mark Pajak

Jun 18-24

Lumb Bank

Poetry, Other

The Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Summer School 2023

Exploring the work of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes in Hughes's Yorkshire home

Heather Clark
Peter K. Steinberg
Guest: Pascale Petit
Guest: Carrie Smith
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Jun 19-24

Totleigh Barton

Other

Residential Writing Week: Songwriting

Dreaming songs into life

Kathryn Williams
Emma-Lee Moss
Guest: Matt Deighton
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Jun 19-24

The Hurst

Poetry

Tutored Retreat: Poetry

Joining the Poetic Conversation

Clare Pollard
Rishi Dastidar
Guest: Kathryn Bevis

Jun 20

Online

Screenwriting

Masterclass: Screenwriting

How to Get the Best from Working with a Producer

Carol Harding

Jun 26-Jul 1

Totleigh Barton

Fiction

Tutored Retreat: Fiction

Time to focus

Kate Murray-Browne
Marcel Theroux
Guest: Sophie Lambert
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Jun 26-30

Online

Poetry

Online Writing Week: Poetry

Holding on and Letting Go: Writing the Body in Grief

Victoria Kennefick
Rebecca Goss
Guest: Alycia Pirmohamed
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Jun 26-Jul 1

Lumb Bank

Starting to Write

Residential Writing Week: Starting to Write

Fanning the Flame

Romesh Gunesekera
Jennifer Wong
Guest: Jo Clement
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Jun 26-Jul 1

The Hurst

Non-Fiction

Residential Writing Week: Life Writing

Shaping Vivid Stories

Wyl Menmuir
Sarah Thomas
Guest: Lamorna Ash

Clockhouse Retreats

Give your writing the time and space it deserves with Arvon’s dedicated Writers Retreat at The Clockhouse. The Clockhouse is open year-round, set in the grounds at The Hurst.

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