I’ll be teaching a short fiction course @arvonfoundation.bsky.social next week at the re-furbished writing centre at Lumb Bank. I’ll be working with writer Vanessa Onwuemezi, which will be a special treat!
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@arvonfoundation.bsky.social literally changed my life.
If it wasn't for them I wouldn't be writing games - thanks to a week tutored by @writingstudio.bsky.social and @jon.inkle.co 🙌🏽
It was the best investment I every made in myself.
The brilliant @arvonfoundation.bsky.social is launching an 18-month residency programme for emerging UK-based writers. Applications open on Monday but get a head start and read the details here: www.arvon.org/jerwood-arvo...
Are you free on the evening of December 16th? 🎄 Join me for this masterclass all about finding multiple (infinite?) ways in to the same subject matter. We’ll write a ridiculous amount of poems in 2 hours…with brand new exercises
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Thrilled to be invited to run this course again with the wonderful @mailbykite.bsky.social for @arvonfoundation.bsky.social
Looking for support/time/space/encouragement/nurturing/nourishment for your writing? This might be the one for you.
#PlaceWriting #DisabilitySky
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What I’ve been doing this week at Totleigh @arvonfoundation.bsky.social ! The launch week of 2 year Arvon Advanced Writing Programme, Thanks to Zain Rishi for group photo! Non fiction tutor William Atkins, fiction tutor Rachel Seiffert and I’m looking after the five poets.
Amazing @arvonfoundation.bsky.social workshop tonight with @novelniche.bsky.social, hosted by Eliza Squire-Bird, on defying binaries & celebrating bi+ poetry. Wrote 4 new poems, early drafts so for #bivisibilityday here's one I wrote earlier, in Queerlings issue 9: drive.google.com/file/d/1gR1k...
I'll be teaching an online masterclass for the @arvonfoundation.bsky.social for academics wishing to write for a general audience. Expect fun writing exercises and some tips from me I've learnt along the way writing my book Hot Air. Everyone welcome, not just academics! www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Join Marcel Theroux and me at Totleigh Barton, the gorgeous @arvonfoundation.bsky.social manor house in Devon, UK, for a tutored writing retreat, 21-26 July.
You'll have private tutorials, a masterclass or two & time to write. A brilliant guest tutor: Kamila Shamsie
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Arvon calling...for anyone wanting to develop their writing into audio, come and join audio fiction gurus Polly Thomas and @danrebellato.bsky.social (and me!) at @arvonfoundation.bsky.social in September. www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
A fab week full of poetry & wildlife at Totleigh Barton - fantastic discussions & prompts from tutors @pascalepetit.bsky.social & Will Harris, & guest reader @ellafrears.bsky.social
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3/3 to the Arvon Foundation and to our tutors on that week, Jenny & Roy, for bringing us together, creating space for magic to happen and for a lasting, creative, supportive group to form. You just never know what unexpected delights await on and from an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course!
2/3 We’ve chosen themes, written individual poems, shared them, learned from each other and relished each person’s individual style and voice - delightfully comic, brooding gothic, swirling free verse, tight forms, and much more. On this anniversary, we want to say a huge thanks
1/3 Exactly one year ago today, a group of intrepid poets embarked on an exhilarating @arvonfoundation.bsky.social online course led by @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social & Roy McFarlane. During that intense week, poems were crafted and bonds created, so much so that 6 of us have met monthly since then.
The winner of the Arvon Award is North Shields writer, cyclist and psychologist Xani Byrne.
"Winning the Arvon Award feels like the wind has spun around and started blowing at my back. It's a welcome push up the hill and it has given me the self-confidence to continue."
Join our Saturday Writing Club - a monthly, low-pressure creative boost to keep you writing all year round.
📝 Inspiring prompts
📚 A mystery guest author
💬 Space to write & connect
💛 Pay What You Can
📅 Come write with us on Saturday 14 June, 10-11am
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We’re thrilled to announce Arvon has received a major grant from the Heritage Fund UK to protect and share the unique landscape of Lumb Bank 🌿📚
2025 marks 50 years of Lumb Bank, and this project will strengthen connections between people, place, and storytelling.
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Costanza by Rachel Blackmore
My next read has just arrived.
Costanza by my friend @rachelblackmore.bsky.social who I met at an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social historical fiction course.
Looking forward to being immersed in scorching scandal in the art world of c17th Rome
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A picture of bowls of different coloured sweets, and over the top the text: "Highly Irregular Newsletter #30 June 2025: Pick'n'Mix Zoom workshop and my book launch in July, two in-person workshops in August, and in Permission Corner, The Lunatraktors on permission and exploration."
Newsletter treats: Pick'n'Mix Zoom writing workshop, poetry+flash+hybrids (app.tickettailor.com/events/tania...) & teaching for @ninearchespress.bsky.social & @arvonfoundation.bsky.social. In Permission Corner I'm inspired by the @lunatraktors.bsky.social. taniahershman.substack.com/p/highly-irr...
Deadline today! Apply for a FREE place on our Short Fiction residenital.
We just discovered @musicalmedic.bsky.social, who prescribed us a dose of empowerment and played Mozart 31 – possibly the perfect soundtrack to get you through a writing session today. Inspired by William Sieghart, The Musical Medic hopes to use the power of music to heal and inspire. That he did!
Is your manuscript ready to share with the world? This Prepare for Publication week in Devon will answer all your most pressing questions. Monday June 16th - Saturday June 21st. Just a few places left! @georgewalkley.com & @jamesspackman73.bsky.social www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
At the top of the graphic is the text: "Free place on our residential Arvon Shorts course for a writer from an underrepresented community!". Below is a screenshot from the Arvon website, with the title "Residential writing course: Shorts", ahd the subtitle "Short fiction, non-fiction, poetry and hybrids", Tutors Tania Hershman and Holly Corfield Carr, Guest tutor Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Date Monday August 18th - Sat August 23rd 2025, Location Totleigh Barton
Applications open for 1 *FREE* place for writer from an underrepresented community on our "Shorts: short fic, poetry, non fic & hybrids" residential @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course in Aug. Email taniah@gmail.com by 4 Jun telling me how you're eligible & why this particular course interests you!
Search for a Storyteller Long List The Girl Who Lost Her Imagination - Rupert Barrington Fox & Mouse and the Worlds Inbetween - Emmy Clarke The Secrets of Skyshore - Laura Davies The Bee Seekers - Ruth Davies Piglet and Pear - Jessica Ellis The Broken Isle - Heather Fishwick Light Beyond the Mountains - Alka Handa Sparks of Green - Claire Lincoln-Gordon Fishsong - Sarah Newman The Monster of Ruthyn Hall - Helen Parry Octavius Blood and the Blood Oath - Ross Salvage Febred - Clive Wallis
Well. Several hours later & still astonished & delighted to find myself on the Search for a Storyteller longlist!
So many thanks @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social & @arvonfoundation.bsky.social for finding something in my story. & congratulations to everyone else on the longlist! How exciting this is!
Miranda Moore (@sparewriter.bsky.social) winner of the first Search for a Storyteller prize with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social & Arvon, shares how an Arvon at Home course helped shape her next novel and why breakthroughs often come in unexpected moments.
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Join us tomorrow night on Zoom 7pm UK time - still time to sign up, concessions available! Very much looking forward to celebrating all things short: www.arvon.org/writing-cour... @arvonfoundation.bsky.social
Join @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social for her Fiction Masterclass on Friday, exploring how to create the most compelling characters. Friday May 23rd, 11:00-13:00 BST www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
Don't miss tomorrow's Masterclass, exploring 'shorts' in all genres: short fiction, non-fiction, poetry and hybrids. Tuesday May 20th 2025, 19:00-21:00 BST www.arvon.org/writing-cour...
poster for Hay/Arvon writing workshop with Rachel Clarke
Hugely looking forward to running an in-person Non-Fiction Writing Workshop at @hayfestival.bsky.social this year, supported by @arvonfoundation.bsky.social 📚⛺️🎪
Over 2 hours, I’ll aim to guide you through honing your topic, research, structure & narrative.
It won't be intimidating, I promise! ❤️
