Spend a week in a supportive environment where we’ll read poetry, write poetry and discover those poems you have always wanted to write. This course is for beginners or those with a little experience.

Tutors:

Helen Ivory is a poet and artist. Her third Bloodaxe Books collection is The Breakfast Machine. She is an editor for the Poetry Archive and edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears. She is co-editing with George Szirtes, an anthology on poetics for Salt entitled In their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on their Own Poetry due in September. She programmes the creative writing courses for Continuing Education at UEA, and has over ten years teaching experience.

 
Neil Rollinson has won the National Poetry Competition, received three PBS recommendations, a Cholmondeley Award, held an RLF Fellowship and has been writer-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust and Manchester University. His third collection is Demolition.

Guest  Jen Hadfield’s poetry collection Almanacs won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Nigh-No-Place was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2007 and won the TS Eliot Prize in 2008.

Arvon's residential writing courses run from Monday afternoon to Saturday morning. Each course is tutored by two professional writers plus a guest writer who visits mid-week to read their work and answer your questions. There are daily workshops over four days running from Tuesday to Friday, and a one-to-one tutorial with each tutor too.
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If you would like more information about the course, call  The Hurst on 01588 640 658