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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

Type

Genre

Date

Centre

All courses

Oct 22

Online

Playwriting

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Other

Arvon at Home Masterclass: Making Yourself Useful

Zoom masterclass with Chris Thorpe

Chris Thorpe

Oct 26-30

Online

Non-Fiction

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Popular Non-Fiction

Writing for the modern reader

Nell Frizzell
Darcy Nicholson
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Oct 27

Online

Poetry

Arvon at Home Masterclass: Danger and Risk

Zoom masterclass with Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird

Oct 28

Online

Fiction

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Winnie M Li via Zoom

Winnie M Li

Oct 29

Online

Fiction

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Children & YA

Arvon at Home: Family Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Jasbinder Bilan via Zoom

Jasbinder Bilan

Oct 30

Online

Fiction

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Other

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Neil Gaiman via Zoom

Neil Gaiman

Nov 2-6

Online

Children & YA

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Young Adult Fiction Work-in-Progress

Getting on with it

Jenny Valentine
Melvin Burgess
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Nov 2-6

Online

Fiction

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Non-Fiction

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Stories and the Living World

in Fiction and Non-Fiction

Jay Griffiths
Tom Bullough
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Nov 2-6

Online

Fiction

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Fiction

Gods and Monsters

Catriona Ward
Natasha Pulley
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Nov 4

Online

Fiction

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Poetry

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Playwriting

Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

Reading and Q&A from Owen Sheers via Zoom

Owen Sheers

Nov 9-13

Online

Poetry

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Poetry

Form and Freedom

Mona Arshi
Mimi Khalvati
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Nov 9-15

Lumb Bank

Retreat

Writers’ Retreat at Lumb Bank

Main house

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Nov 9-15

Lumb Bank

Retreat

Writers’ Retreat at Lumb Bank

The Barn

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Nov 9-15

Totleigh Barton

Retreat

Writers’ Retreat at Totleigh Barton

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Nov 9-13

Online

Children & YA

Arvon at Home Writing Week: Writing for Children

The challenge and the magic

Liz Flanagan
Emma Carroll

Nov 10

Online

Fiction

Arvon at Home: Craft of Writing with David Mitchell

in conversation with Alex Clark

David Mitchell

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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