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Speculative Fiction, What Ifs and Making Things Up

Arvon tutors Joanna Kavenna and Liz Jensen on the pleasures and challenges of writing speculative fiction.Together there’ll be teaching the...

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My Arvon Week: Pregnant Pause

I was six months pregnant with my second child and two years pregnant with my first novel when...

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Wyl Menmuir – From Starting to Write to publication

“Write hard and clear about what hurts” Advice for writers abounds. Especially online. It’s grand. But I have...

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Cooking and Eating on an Arvon Week

Good food is part of the Arvon Experience: How and Why Arvon has a firm commitment to making...

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Tricia Durdey’s Arvon Week

Ten years ago I attended an Arvon course at Lumb Bank – Writing for Young Adults, led by...

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Arvon partners with First Story in Creative Writing in Schools programme

Arvon is pleased to announce that it has been named a partner in a new Creative Writing in...

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Theodora Clarke – Arvon Revisited: Starting to Write

I had no idea what to expect when I started the long drive from London to Totleigh Barton...

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Kate Williams on Writing History

Arvon tutor Kate Williams‘ tips on history writing, in anticipation of her Arvon course at The Hurst in November. When...

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My Arvon Week : David Morley and Penelope Shuttle, The Hurst, September 2015

I have been on so many Arvon courses over the past twenty years that I’ve lost count. Five...

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MY ARVON WEEK: THE NUMBERS OF PUBLISHING

Before I went to an Arvon course I thought the journey to publication looked something like this… Step...

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Playwriting: Tutored Retreat

Screenwriting: bring Characters and Stories Alive

Starting to Write: Alternative Love Relationships

3 Titles Drafted, 3 Arvon Courses Wiser and 17 Years Later

Diana Morgan Hill talks about the process of getting her moving memoir Love and Justice finally published. Diana...

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Arvon Alumni Emma Haughton on Becoming a Writer

Something huge happened recently. My first novel, a YA thriller called Now You See Me was picked for...

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My Arvon Week: Writing for Radio – Anita MacCallum

Arvon has been shrouded in mystery for some years for me, I’d heard it’s only for real writers,...

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An Arvon Success Story – Jon Teckman

In August 2007 I attended an Arvon Foundation novel writing course at Totleigh Barton.  I took with me...

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Martine Bailey’s Arvon Week

Martine Bailey Blogs about Persistence and the Road to Publication. My Arvon week was nearly twenty years ago,...

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A Half Term of Writing – St. Benedict School at Totleigh Barton

Rachel Hursey, Head of English, St Benedict’s Catholic High School, Alcester Whilst most teachers might look forward to...

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The Fire in the Mind – Jacob Sam-La Rose on being a poet in the classrooom

We made a short film with the inspiring poet and Arvon tutor Jacob Sam-La Rose. Jacob will be talking...

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“Teachers as Writers” research project to evaluate the impact of teachers’ development as writers on the writing of their students

Arvon is delighted to announce it has been awarded £159,188 from Arts Council England’s new Research Grant for a two...

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My imagination ran rampant: Keira Andrews’ Arvon journey

“You’re so close to IT, Keira. IT! You’re bloody good, and so close.” – Horatio Clare, my first...

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First Lines – Ben Bradfield’s Arvon Week

Ben Bransfield, teacher of English at King’s College School in Wimbledon, introduces sixteen boys to their first Arvon...

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Jim Hinks’ Arvon Story

Before I was a publisher, I worked as a plasterer. Plastering often coincides with change: people moving into...

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Pass it on

Virginia Macgregor, English Teacher at Wellington College, blogs about a school week at The Hurst, Monday 30th March –...

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SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT JOHN MOAT

by Lindsay Clarke, author and Arvon tutor. John Moat, the co-founder of Arvon, died last year and  Arvon...

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David Eldridge Tutor Takeover on Twitter

We’re very excited to announce that on Friday 13th March from 2-3pm we’ll be holding a #TutorTakeover on...

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From Totleigh Barton to Barnes Bookshop: How My Cookbook Came to Life in Just Seven Short Years

by Kristen Frederickson In the autumn of 2008, I joined about 15 other aspiring writers at Totleigh Barton, with tutors...

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Arvon tutor week at Lumb Bank

Image by Julia Golding Three Arvon tutors who attended our Tutor Development Course ‘The Freehouse of the Imagination’...

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Six years at Totleigh

by Oliver Meek, Centre Director at Totleigh Barton Arvon Centre for the last six years   I realised...

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