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Arvon at Home: Live Guest Reading

On Wednesday 16 June I'll be reading for the Arvon Foundation's 'Arvon at Home' series of weekly online Live Guest Readings.

Arvon has been the UK's home of creative writing for over 50 years, offering residential courses and retreats led by acclaimed writers. Due to the current Covid-19 restrictions it has created an online programme of activities called 'Arvon at Home' offering Writing Weeks, Masterclasses, Live Guest Readings and other sessions.

The Live Guest Readings take place every Wednesday evening, when a guest reads from their work and answers questions live and in person online.

Kindly invited in the context of the 'Hybrid Writing' course led by Roy Claire Potter and Joanna Walsh (14-18 June) I will read some recent poetry and also for the first time from a new work in progress. The event starts at 7.15pm (UK / Ireland time) and will include a Q&A session.

Tickets cost £5.00 and are bookable through the Arvon website (participants in the 'Hybrid Writing' course are not required to book).

This is a live event and it will not be recorded.



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wilmavissers said…
Hello christodolous Makris
I think I met you once at the tyrone guthrie center and I am in the house of Debbie paul in Dublin now
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16 June 2021 at 21:53
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