Articles featuring The Arvon Foundation | LeisureCourses.net - short courses & residential study breaks in great locations - Part 4
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Cindy George – My Arvon City Weekend
Listed on April 7, 2014 by Arvon in Blogs!Alongside our residential weeks, each year we run Arvon City, a programme of non-residential weekend courses in urban...
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MICHAEL BALDWIN by John Moat
Listed on March 27, 2014 by Arvon in Blogs!Michael Baldwin’s gone, died in February. When The Arts Council, following Fairfax’s and my report on the first...
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Sophie Good’s Arvon week – Playwriting
Listed on February 21, 2014 by Arvon in Blogs!Sophie Good blogs about her week at Lumb Bank in November last year for ‘Theatre – Exploring and...
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Michael Baldwin, a great friend to Arvon
Listed on February 20, 2014 by Arvon in Blogs!We were greatly saddened to hear of the death of the poet and novelist Michael Baldwin, a wonderful...
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Lochend School at Lumb Bank
Listed on February 19, 2014 by Arvon in Blogs!Gordon Fisher blogs about his experience of bringing a school group to Arvon. On Monday, 13th of January...
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Dread is the heckler in the room who doesn’t know when to stop
Listed on February 11, 2014 by Arvon in Blogs!The Hurst’s Gabriela Blandy blogs about dread and inspiration… I visited The Hurst a few years ago for...
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Write to Unite – competition for young writers
Listed on January 15, 2014 by Arvon in Blogs!Arvon has teamed up with Kick it Out – football’s equality and inclusion campaign, currently marking its 20...
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I know the house and its ghosts – final post from The Hurst’s writer-in-residence
Listed on January 8, 2014 by Arvon in Blogs!Deb Alma signs off her writing residency at The Hurst… “Strangely as relief centre assistant at The Hurst before it closed for refurbishment in March last year, I was the person to lock the doors behind the last visitors, before the work started, and I love how that has felt: watching it shift from a […]Read more ... -
Drumroll please! Gabriela Blandy on joining team Hurst
Listed on December 10, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Joining The Hurst this week has reminded me about the months I spent in a dilapidated hotel on the Pacific Coast. The Belmar is Mazatlan’s first beachfront hotel, built in the 1920s. John Wayne was a regular, but when I was there only the rooms at the front, overlooking the ocean were in use, and […]Read more ... -
Are better habits the secret to writing success?
Listed on December 5, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!by Rebecca Evans Over the years I’ve worked for Arvon I’ve encountered several mysteries, including: the precise role of cake in stimulating creativity during an Arvon week the unreliability of Lumb Bank’s heating despite the attention of every plumber in the Calder Valley and the reason why super-keen and talented writers so often fail to complete […]Read more ... -
Coming home to Arvon – Starting to Write in E17
Listed on December 4, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!By Becky Swain, Head of Learning and Participation, Arvon This month I was delighted to host a three day Arvon city course for local residents in Walthamstow, East London. Stranger : Neighbour – Starting to Write in E17 made its home in the William Morris and Winn’s Galleries and was the result of a new […]Read more ... -
“There’s a certain slant of light” or Henry’s Arvon Adventure
Listed on December 3, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!By H. A Myers, a writer on the Lumb Bank, Fiction course 11-16 November 2013 with tutors Kate Long and Simon Thirsk “I feel like a child again,” thought Henry, as he pushed on through the woods above the river, “a child who has lost his way.” He had thought that getting away to Yorkshire on […]Read more ... -
‘A meteorite hitting the earth’ – Ruth Borthwick blogs about teaching Creative Writing
Listed on December 2, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Last Saturday I was in Birmingham at the excellent Writers’ Toolkit annual event devised by Writing West Midlands. I chaired a session on Teaching Creative Writing with three writers who have a lot of experience between them of doing just that: Helen Cross, Richard House and Greg Leadbetter. Greg Leadbetter kicked off by talking about […]Read more ... -
Strings Attached: A Non-Puppeteer’s Guide to Totleigh Barton’s Writing for Puppetry Course
Listed on November 27, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Totleigh Barton’s Eliza Squire gives an account of an unusual Arvon week…… “If you were a puppet, which type do you think you’d be?” I’m asked. I’m not sure I even understand the question before I’m confidently informed I’d be a Banraku. What’s a Banraku? I wonder. This mixture of confusion and wonder is one […]Read more ... -
Natasha Carlish – my first fortnight at The Hurst
Listed on November 12, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!The Hurst’s new Centre Director Natasha Carlish blogs about her first two weeks on the job… I was thrilled and excited to start as the new Centre Director at The Hurst. Read more ... -
Light-heartedness is a serious business – latest from The Hurst Writer-in-Residence
Listed on November 6, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!A selection of photographs and found poems from Deb Alma, our writer-in-residence at The Hurst. Points of interest We want you to treat the Hurst as your home monkey puzzle, apple orchard, honeysuckle your room as your writing room Clockhouse, carpark, sequoia trees decorate with flowers books and woodland objects Duck Island, bluebell walk, azalea […]Read more ... -
History Writing
Listed on November 4, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesWe believe that true narratives can be as gripping, as literary and as appealing to the general reader as imagined stories, and we have evolved writing techniques to reflect those standards. Explaining our methods, we will help participants enhance their own capabilities in non-fiction and provide a practical toolkit for realising them.Read more ... -
Verb New Voices seeks talented Northern writers
Listed on October 25, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Calling talented writers in the North Verb New Voices is looking for three talented artists based in the North of England who would like to make a new piece of work for Radio 3’s The Verb, in partnership with Arvon. Created by Arts Council England and supported by venues and organisations from across the North […]Read more ... -
Arvon Friend Jude Brown’s Writing Journey
Listed on October 17, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Arvon Friends support our work with disadvantaged young people and adults; joining costs from £30 a year and benefits include being able to book onto courses early and receiving our monthly newsletter. If you become an Arvon Friend by Monday 2nd December you will receive the brochure in advance of the general public and have […]Read more ... -
Crime Fiction
Listed on October 14, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesThis week we invite would-be, or already published, crime novelists to experiment with new ideas. The aim of the five days is to show that there is no set format for the crime genre, except a dedication to good storytelling. Read more ... -
My week at Lumb Bank: Jilly Munro
Listed on October 14, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Poetic Licentiousness Jilly Munro blogs about her week on a Poetry course at Lumb Bank October 7 – 12 2013 The week started well with a very warm welcome from Lumb Bank staff, help with luggage to our rooms and a few timid hellos followed by a delicious meal. We were then thrown into a […]Read more ... -
This is is the month of weeds: From The Hurst writer-in-residence
Listed on October 11, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Working at The Hurst, Halloween 2012 She floats up in the light of the torch, her moss green thighs with the scrape and scab grey flake of lichen, that damp and flourish there, darkening the night around her, deeper black it is now, her weeping angel, blank-eyed, she catches my coat as I pass, Read more ... -
Wil Law’s Arvon Week: Food Writing
Listed on October 4, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Wil Law aka The Gingerbread Lad talks about a week of writing, eating and cooking at Totleigh Barton- and why it didn’t matter that he was the only boy. During my last year at University I apprehensively booked a place on the Arvon Food Writing course in Devon, as it seemed the only place where […]Read more ... -
One step Forward, two steps back
Listed on October 2, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!It’s great news that Michael Symmons Roberts, wonderful poet and tutor and Arvon Trustee, has won the 2013 Forward Prize for best collection with the sublime Drysalter. Michael was present at the very downbeat event ceremony last night at London’s Southbank Centre. Read more ... -
Starting to Write Poetry
Listed on September 16, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesCome to Lumb Bank, the former house of Ted Hughes and now an Arvon writing house, for a week all about writing poetry. A perfect week if you are new to poetry and looking to gain the confidence to keep writing. Read more ... -
Theatre groups always construct a ghost: new post from The Hurst writer-in-residence
Listed on September 12, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!Theatre Groups Occasionally someone will say that the main house has a cold and unfriendly feel and that it’s John Osborne. Theatre groups move all the furniture, become convinced it’s ghosts. More than any other, theatre groups will hear the noises in the pipes. Poem created by words from Dan Pavitt, The Hurst Administrator Blue […]Read more ... -
Writing for Puppetry
Listed on September 11, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesA week of provocation to develop fearless writing and encourage experimentation. Includes practical workshops by Mervyn Millar to demystify puppetry and explore the relationship between design, dialogue and staging, and workshops by Nell Leyshon that focus on finding secure dramatic structures to keep your wild visions in healthy shape.Read more ... -
Fiction
Listed on September 9, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesA course to help you in your search for the best narrative voice for this particular story, and guide you on that steep uphill journey from rough idea and draft to arriving at your destination.Read more ... -
Writing for Games
Listed on September 2, 2013 by Arvon in Featured CoursesGames writing demands the scene-setting skills of a playwright, the characterisation of a novelist, the attention to nuance of a poet, and the flexibility to allow your audience into your work. Read more ... -
A great tree has fallen in the forest: Arvon mourns Seamus Heaney
Listed on August 30, 2013 by Arvon in Blogs!From Ruth Borthwick, Chief Executive, Arvon We at Arvon are shocked to hear that Seamus Heaney has died suddenly. Seamus was a huge supporter of Arvon, which he encountered through his friendship with Ted Hughes. In 1981 Seamus agreed to judge, with Ted, Charles Causley and Philip Larkin, the inaugural Arvon International Poetry Competition. Read more ...
