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Beth Miller’s Arvon Weeks

I first went on an Arvon course in 2001. It was a selected course for people writing novels....

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Welcome to the 2015 Course Programme

Ruth Borthwick, Chief Executive   It’s amazing to think that it is 40 years since Arvon started running courses...

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P.D. JAMES AND ARVON

by Simon Brett It is frequently said that crime writers are a benign and friendly lot, and of...

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PD James

Everyone at Arvon is very sad to hear of the death of PD James. She was one of...

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Miranda Peake’s Arvon Week

Miranda Peake blogs about her writing journey, from Arvon to winning the Mslexia Poetry Prize, including a poem...

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On not making things up – by Diana McCaulay

Diana McCaulay is this year’s winner of the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writer’s Prize. The prize is an annual...

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Natasha Carlish’s Arvon Week

My Arvon Week – Starting to Write a Novel with Chris Wakling and Tiffany Murray The Hurst Centre...

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The conundrum that the notebook solves

Gabriela Blandy, Assistant Centre Director at The Hurst, on keeping a notebook If there is a knock at...

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John Moat by Peter Oswald

Arvon is pleased to publish an appreciation of John Moat by playwright Peter Oswald.   JOHN MOAT John...

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Lumb Bank Fun Palace

Lumb Fun for the Day Bec Evans was one of over 300 people who visited the Lumb Bank...

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Keeping your Arvon group going

Keeping your Arvon group going An Arvon course can be an intense week – you’re thrown together with...

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John Moat 1936—2014

We are very sad to announce that John Moat, co-founder of Arvon with John Fairfax, has died. We...

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Sustaining an Arvon week

Gabriela Blandy, Assistant Centre Director at The Hurst, blogs about her return home after an Arvon week. There’s no...

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The Gift of a Poem – Julius Smit’s Arvon Week

On a breezy sunny August afternoon I got off the train at Hebden Bridge with my rucksack and...

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Radio Drama – Matthew Miller’s Arvon Week

On Monday July 21st, I travelled down to stunningly sunny Devon to learn about the art of writing...

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‘I’m a writer’ – Colette Watson’s Arvon Aftermath

 by Colette Watson, a writer on the Starting to Write Short Stories week at Lumb Bank 4-9 August...

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Beta readers – the benefits of a critiquing partnership

Writing can be a lonely business when you’re holed up in the attic hammering out your masterpiece. It’s...

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Use Your Loaf – Vicki Lloyd’s Arvon week

Vicki Lloyd writes about her week of writing eating at Totleigh Barton… Monday Deepest Devon for Writing for Radio...

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Grants for the Arts and writers

Are you on the cusp of a significant artistic achievement? Are you thinking about the future of storytelling?...

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Tips for continuing writing once your Arvon course is over

You’ve finished your Arvon course and returned home to your family, work, and a week’s worth of laundry....

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“Instead, I wrote”: Jennifer Watson’s Arvon week

by Jennifer Watson, a writer on a Fiction Retreat at Moniack Mhor 9-14 July 2014, tutored by Morag...

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ARVON APPOINTS ALISTAIR BURTENSHAW AS CHAIR

From Ruth Borthwick, Chief Executive, Arvon Arvon is at a very special moment in its 46 year old...

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Summer Writing Weeks

A Grand Opening at The Hurst offers a way back to the past

“Writing into being”: Anthea Morrison’s Arvon week

The Gillian Hush Award – a fully funded place on Writing for Radio

Celebrating The Hurst

What I Took Home: ‘Poetry: The Lyrical Impulse’ at Totleigh Barton

by Hannah Copley, a writer on a Poetry week at Totleigh Barton  Apr 23- May 3, tutored by Mimi...

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My Arvon Week – Queer Fiction

Ahead of this year’s Queer Fiction week at Lumb Bank with Kerry Hudson and Jonathan Kemp at Lumb...

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Arvon and Moniack Mhor

From April 2015, Arvon courses will no longer be held at Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s Creative Writing Centre near...

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