by Arvon Friend Sally Crawford 2. Try something new In my opinion, when we wake up, we wake up with our muses. Every single morning. It may not feel like that, of course, because we have mostly forgot… more →
The Arvon Blogwrote 8 months ago: by Arvon Friend Sally Crawford 2. Try something new In my opinion, when we wake up, we wake up with … more →
wrote 12 months ago: View This Pollopinion … more →
wrote 12 months ago: Tate have launched a new short story competition, inviting you to imagine life in 2058 – a wor … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Moniack Mhor ‘Elephants’ is the story of a lonely child who discovers fun when her grey house become … more →
wrote 1 year ago: In 2000, having written two novels for children and having had one accepted by a small Scottish publ … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Arvon recently hosted the lovely Chroma Journal. Our pre-Domesday thatched manor house, Totleigh Bar … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Everyone I had met had glazed eyes and sighed when I said I was going to Parathy. Ahhh…Parathy they … more →
wrote 1 year ago: ‘If a dark avenging angel swept away all the books of France, France would not exist. If the same an … more →
wrote 1 year ago: I have a morning unexpectedly free. A meeting has been cancelled. But the free hours collapse into … more →
wrote 1 year ago: He speaks in gunfire English and has an accent from Utah. Professor Reynaldo is head of Literature … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Dear Philip, Will you please pass on my heartfelt thanks to the team at Arvon — everyone who was in … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Arvon has been spotting a lot of things vanishing over the weekend. Soon we shall have ink that vani … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Pauline Smith has been relief centre-directing at our pre-Domesday house, Totleigh Barton. She was e … more →
wrote 2 years ago: This is the inspirational story of one mother and daughter – Rachel and Clemmy – who att … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Baroque in Hackney (a blog written by a poet and siren) recently posted in her usual glamorous style … more →
wrote 2 years ago: In an earlier post called Your Starter for Ten we set (er..) twenty questions for all writers. Here, … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, A Spot of Bother) has written a very … more →
wrote 2 years ago: The Tart of Fiction (aka writer Elizabeth Baines) has set writers some questions to answer. Since Ar … more →
wrote 2 years ago: ‘I have the best view in England’ John Osborne, playwright, on the view down the Clun Valley f … more →