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COURSES & RETREATS

Arvon is the UK’s home of creative writing, offering residential writing courses in three historic houses, along with an extensive online programme of Writing Days, Weeks, Months, and Masterclasses.

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Genre

Location

Jun 17

Online

Non-Fiction

Masterclass: Telling Other People’s Stories

Getting to the truth

Peter Apps

Jun 18

Online

Fiction

How I Write: Saba Sams

Q&A and Reading

Saba Sams

Jun 20

Online

Screenwriting

Masterclass: Screenwriting

Story is character

Kate Leys

Jun 23-28

Totleigh Barton

Fiction, Starting to Write

Residential Writing Course: Starting to Write Fiction

Making every word count

Vanessa Onwuemezi
Ben Pester
Guest: Anna Wood
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Jun 24

Online

Fiction

Masterclass: Fiction

Finding your voice

Marina Kemp

Jun 30-Jul 5

The Hurst

Poetry, Other

Residential Writing Course: Poetry and Songwriting

Finding your voice

Jack Underwood
Emma-Lee Moss
Guest: Serafina Steer
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Jun 30-Jul 4

Online

Poetry

Online Writing Week: Nature and Eco-Poetry

Beauty versus Beast: nature and eco-poetry for a real, imperfect world

Ian Humphreys
Hannah Copley
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Jun 30-Jul 5

Totleigh Barton

Fiction, Non-Fiction

Residential Writing Course: Life Writing

Crafting real stories

Tiffany Murray
Rhik Samadder
Guest: Nina Stibbe
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Jul 2

Online

Poetry

How I Write: Pascale Petit

in conversation with Daniel Sluman

Pascale Petit
Daniel Sluman

Jul 4

Online

Other

Masterclass: Build a Sustainable Writing Habit

Find joy in the process and keep going

Bec Evans

Jul 7-12

The Hurst

Fiction

Residential Writing Course: Fiction

Playing with Words

Sarah Moss
Jan Carson
Guest: Lucy Caldwell
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Jul 7-29

Online

Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction

Online Writing Month: Through the Bodymind

A writing course taught by and for D/deaf and Disabled writers

Khairani Barokka
Dorothy Lehane
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Jul 8

Online

Non-Fiction

Masterclass: Plan It, Pitch It

Build a blueprint for your non-fiction book

Nell Frizzell

Jul 11

Online

Fiction

Online Writing Day: Fiction

How to finish a first draft

Andrew Michael Hurley

Jul 12

Online

Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Starting to Write, Children & YA, Theatre, Screenwriting, Short Story, Publishing, Other

The Saturday Writing Club (July)

A space to write, a place to belong

Jul 14-19

Totleigh Barton

Poetry

Residential Writing Course: Poetry

The lyric self

Pascale Petit
Will Harris
Guest: Ella Frears
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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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