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COURSES & RETREATS

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.

May 10-12

Lumb Bank

Non-Fiction

SHORT COURSE: Writing from life

Turning life’s raw material into good writing

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May 13-18

The Hurst

Other

Creative Writing and Wellbeing

Enhance your ability to flourish

Elise Valmorbida

Guest: Beth Kempton

May 13-18

Lumb Bank

Retreat

Retreat

Time to write

Last few places left

May 13-18

Totleigh Barton

Playwriting

Playwriting

Finding a new language for your ideas

Guest: Charlene James

May 15

Online 10.00am

Fiction

Arvon 1-1 with Kerry Young

In-depth feedback on your fiction work-in-progress

May 20-25

The Hurst

Playwriting

Writing for Performance

Crafting text to support live performance

Mandy Redvers-Rowe

Guest: Bridget Minamore

May 20-25

Lumb Bank

Poetry

Poetry: Tutored Retreat

The house of poetry

Guest: Penelope Shuttle

Last few places left

May 20-25

Totleigh Barton

Starting to Write

Starting to Write

Capturing ideas

Ross Sutherland

Guest: Eley Williams

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May 20

Online 10.00am

Fiction

Arvon 1-1 with Kerry Young

In-depth feedback on your fiction work-in-progress

May 27-Jun 1

The Hurst

Poetry

Poetry

Words as pictures and film

Guest: Sophie Collins

May 27-Jun 1

Lumb Bank

Non-Fiction

Popular Non-Fiction

From imagination to industry

Emily Robertson

Guest: Stuart Maconie

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May 27-Jun 1

Totleigh Barton

Fiction

Editing Fiction

Now to make it sing

Guest: Jenny Hewson

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Jun 3-8

The Hurst

Fiction

Writing a Novel

The art of crafting a world

Patrick McGuiness

Guest: Louise Doughty

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Jun 3-8

Lumb Bank

Children & YA

Children’s and Young Adults’ Fiction: Tutored Retreat

Guidance and space to explore your story

Marcus Sedgwick

Catherine Johnson

Guest: Lucy Strange

Last few places left

Jun 3-8

Totleigh Barton

Poetry

Poetry

Translate your thoughts through language, sound and visuals

Guest: Jay Bernard

Jun 10-15

The Hurst

Non-Fiction

Other

Nature Writing

Nature and human nature: to vivify and vitalise

Paul Kingsnorth

Guest: Richard Kerridge

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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