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Write for a week with Arvon

Flagship of the literature world The Arvon Foundation works with only three higher education partners each year. OCA is privileged to be one of them. Our next residential week with Arvon is taking place between Monday 25 and Saturday 30 March 2013. Arvon has many prominent writers as friends, patrons and supporters. The list includes […]

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Arvon and after

At the beginning of March 2012, 15 OCA creative writing students spent six days at The Arvon Foundation’s Lumb Bank in West Yorkshire, the former home of poet Ted Hughes. There, they found the time, space and inspiration to write. Arvon and OCA are both keen to continue their partnership so that OCA students can combine the ongoing structure of open learning with the intense experience of a residential writing retreat.

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