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COURSES & RETREATS

Arvon centres are temporarily closed during the Covid-19 crisis, but we have a full Arvon at Home online programme of Guest Readings, Masterclasses, 1-1s and Writing Weeks.

Courses Overview

Aug 10-14

Online

Fiction

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Writing a Novel

Find your voice and develop your story

Samantha Harvey

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Aug 11

Online

Fiction

Children & YA

Arvon at Home: Family Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Robin Stevens via Zoom

Aug 12

Online

Non-Fiction

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Ahdaf Soueif via Zoom

Aug 13

Online

Poetry

Arvon at Home Masterclass: Trusting Ourselves with Language

Zoom masterclass with Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus

Aug 19

Online

Poetry

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Malika Booker via Zoom

Aug 20

Online

Fiction

Poetry

Non-Fiction

Arvon at Home Masterclass: Holding and Letting Go

Writing and radical psychogeography - Zoom masterclass with Will Self

Aug 24-28

Online

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Life Writing

Mining the self for fiction and memoir

Cathy Rentzenbrink

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Aug 26

Online

Non-Fiction

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff via Zoom

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

Aug 27

Online

Poetry

Arvon at Home Masterclass: Working From Home

Zoom masterclass with Paul Farley

Aug 28

Online

Non-Fiction

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Adam Buxton via Zoom

Aug 31-Sep 4

Online

Screenwriting

Arvon at Home: Screenwriting Week

How to test and strengthen your screenplay

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Sep 2

Online

Fiction

Non-Fiction

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Maggie O'Farrell via Zoom

Maggie O’Farrell

Sep 3

Online

Screenwriting

Arvon at Home Masterclass: Taking yourself seriously as a screenwriter

Zoom masterclass with Nicole Taylor

Sep 9

Online

Poetry

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Pascale Petit via Zoom

Sep 14-18

Online

Poetry

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Poetry

Making the most of the external world

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Sep 23

Online

Poetry

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Rachel Long via Zoom

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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