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Escape to a beautiful place where you can free your imagination and let your writing off the leash. Grants are available to help with the course fee.

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Genre: Starting-to-write

May 20-25

Totleigh Barton

Starting to Write

Starting to Write

Capturing ideas

Ross Sutherland

Guest: Eley Williams

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Jul 8-13

The Hurst

Fiction

Starting to Write

Starting to Write Fiction

Secrets and lies: exploring the imagination

Guest: Carys Bray

Jul 8-13

Lumb Bank

Starting to Write

Starting to Write

Telling your stories in poetry and prose

Malachy Tallack

Guest: Michael Pedersen

Aug 19-24

The Hurst

Starting to Write

Starting to Write

Becoming you, the writer

Guest: Nick Makoha

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Sep 9-14

Lumb Bank

Starting to Write

Starting to Write

Ways into writing

Gillian Allnutt

Guest: Adelle Stripe

Oct 7-12

Totleigh Barton

Fiction

Starting to Write

Starting to Write a Novel

Lessons on voice, character, plot and setting

Guest: Mick Kitson

Oct 21-26

The Hurst

Starting to Write

Starting to Write

Turning inspiration and ideas into stories and poems

Guest: Ali Land

Dec 9-14

The Hurst

Starting to Write

Non-Fiction

Starting to Write Non-Fiction

Turning real-life material into a story

Kapka Kassabova

Guest: Helen Pankhurst

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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