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Arvon Foundation
Connections
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Anthologization | Judith Kazantzis | After this beginning to a feminist writing career, JK
joined the Women's Literature Collective
and began reviewing poetry for Spare Rib (where she also published her own poems) and other radical journals. During the 1980s... |
Employer | Michèle Roberts | 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... |
Employer | Maggie Gee | MG
has held creative-writing positions at universities including Sussex
, the University of East Anglia
, |
Employer | Frances Horovitz | In the mid-1960s FH
began teaching English and drama part-time to boost her income. She taught at a number of different London schools, including Carlyle Grammar School for Girls
in Fulham. |
Employer | Bryony Lavery | 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). “Biographies: Bryony Lavery”. MCC’s Last Easter - Full Casting Announced. |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate Clanchy | 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... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Dunmore | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Maggie Gee | MG
had worked on dramatic techniques on an Arvon
course in 2009; Gebbie, Vanessa. “Crossing the Divide”. Mslexia, Vol. 68 , Dec. 2015, pp. 15-17. 17 Gebbie, Vanessa. “Crossing the Divide”. Mslexia, Vol. 68 , Dec. 2015, pp. 15-17. 16 |
Occupation | Helen Dunmore | 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... |
Occupation | Anne Stevenson | She has since taught at the Arvon
and other poetry foundations. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research, 1984–2024, Numerous volumes. 9: 287 |
Occupation | Penelope Shuttle | 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... |
Occupation | Bernice Rubens | As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. Kennedy, Maev. “Booker winner Bernice Rubens dies”. Guardian Unlimited, 14 Oct. 2004. |
Occupation | Catherine Byron | 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... |
Occupation | Gillian Clarke | 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
... |
Timeline
Late August 1968: Two poets, John Moat and John Fairfax, launched...
Writing climate item
Late August 1968
Two poets, John Moat
and John Fairfax
, launched the Arvon Foundation
with a poetry course at Beaford Arts Centre
(in a Victorian house in rural north Devon). Ted Hughes
was guest reader on...
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