Arvon Foundation

KC never cherished any idea of being a writer. She says that it was not until much later in life that she began to think seriously about pursuing her own writing. A long-time poetry reader...

With Amy Clampitt and Craig Raine , AS selected and edited for the Arvon Foundation the 1985 Anthology of poems from the Observer and Ronald Duncan Foundation International Poetry Competition. This anthology appeared in 1987...

In connection with teaching for the Arvon Foundation in the 1990s, PDJ sometimes let her creative spirit run wild. For the closing Friday night of one course she wrote a poem for reading aloud (about...

As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. She tells a story from her whoring or book-promotion days of sitting beside Edna O'Brien

PS has tutored for the Arvon Foundation . In 2007 she acted as judge for the annual National Poetry Competition (eagerly contemplating the possibility of a new discovery in poetry), and served as chair of...

CB also does freelance work and various community projects. She has been a member of the Arvon Foundation , the major provider of residential courses for writers in Britain, since 1994; for three years she...

She has since taught at the Arvon and other poetry foundations.

At the time of her move from Cardiff to Blaen Cwrt, GC was appointed Creative Writing Fellow at St David's University College in Lampeter, Wales, a post sponsored by the Welsh Arts Council ...

HD has taught at the University of Glamorgan and Bristol University and for the Arvon Foundation , and held a Writer-in-Residence position at the then Polytechnic of Wales in 1990 as well as in many...

HD treated authorship like a job. She belonged to a generation which built its careers through arranging workshops and readings and teaching on the first Arvon creative writing courses. She later saw tours, interviews, reviewing...

MG had worked on dramatic techniques on an Arvon course in 2009; the course fed this novel as well as plans for writing a series of dramatic monologues about mothers.

KC 's second Arvon course was taught by Simon Armitage , who had recently become the poetry editor at Chatto and Windus . Armitage offered KC a chance to publish. This led to the appearance...

The friendship of herself and her husband with Ted Hughes survived Plath's death. RF later remembered Hughes and Assia Wevill sharing their wretchedness in the weeks immediately after the catastrophe, but remembered also making Assia...

She spent two years as writer-in-residence for the Unicorn Theatre for Children , has tutored for Arvon writing courses, and is a director, with John Retallack , of the Performing Arts Labs (playwriting).

MR read manuscripts for publishers; she taught literature, sexual politics, and creative writing at places like the City Literary Institute or City Lit , Battersea Arts Centre , and the Oval House in Kennington; she...